Skip to main content

Cleanup contract

https://energy.gov/em/articles/doe-awards-new-los-alamos-legacy-cleanup-contract 

DOE awards Los Alamos legacy cleanup contract 
act to Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos LLC. The current legacy cleanup contract expires in March 2018 and is held by LANS LLC, the M&O contractor led by the University of California System that also is in the terminal months of a NNSA contract for operating Los Alamos National Laboratory. BWXT is also a minor partner in LANS LLC, along with Bechtel and AECOM. 

Comments

Anonymous said…
Would not hold your breath on this until the protests are all settled. Even with the selection falling over the holiday would expect to see one or more protests filed soon. Considering that BWXT was the winning team, the protest has a good chance of being successful. NNSA may be still sore about the several protests that BWXT filed over loosing the Y-12 contract and those memories are still fresh. Also have to consider that BWXT tried several other times at NNSA contracts at SNL and NTS and was solidly refused by NNSA each time. In the meantime, Dr. Wallace and LANS are still the contractors in charge of cleanup.
Anonymous said…
Would not hold your breath on this until the protests are all settled. Even with the selection falling over the holiday would expect to see one or more protests filed soon. Considering that BWXT was the winning team, the protest has a good chance of being successful. NNSA may be still sore about the several protests that BWXT filed over loosing the Y-12 contract and those memories are still fresh. Also have to consider that BWXT tried several other times at NNSA contracts at SNL and NTS and was solidly refused by NNSA each time. In the meantime, UC led LANS are still the contractors in charge of cleanup.

Popular posts from this blog

Plutonium Shots on NIF.

Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...

Trump is to gut the labs.

The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will  have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like  a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.

Rumor corner

LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.