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Contract awarded to finish WIPP air system rebuild amid legal battles

A new subcontractor was hired to complete a rebuild of the ventilation system at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant nuclear repository near Carlsbad after months of legal issues with the past subcontractor who was terminated last fall. With the new subcontractor award, the project’s original completion date of 2021 was pushed back by four years and it was expected to cost at least $28 million more than the initial contract. Critical Applications Alliance (CAA) received the initial $135 million contract in November 2018 to build the Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System (SSCVS) intended to improve airflow in the underground where low-level transuranic (TRU) waste consisting of radiated clothing materials and equipment is permanently entombed in a subterranean salt deposit.

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New Mexico nuclear sites 10-year environmental cleanup plan outlined

Cleaning up the environment from nuclear activities across the U.S. will continue for at least another decade as the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) published its priorities for 2021 to 2031. The EM oversees operations at national laboratories and nuclear facilities across the nation, including three in New Mexico. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque were all expected to continue important projects in nuclear research, development and remediation through the next 10 years. In a letter from Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management William White included with the priorities, he said the Office achieved several milestones in 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

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WIPP: Restart of fan needed for worker safety at nuclear repository

Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant reported a “minimal” release of radioactive materials during a test of a ventilation fan and contended the fan could be used safely during maintenance operations at the nuclear waste repository near Carlsbad. The fan was decommissioned after an accidental radiological release in 2014 led to contamination of parts of the underground where waste is disposed of, and a three-year halt of WIPP’s primary operations. Restarting the fan was needed, officials said, to increase safety for workers by improving airflow to the underground. A four-hour test of the fan was conducted in January, and Sean Dunagan, president of Nuclear Waste Partnership – the primary operations contractor at WIPP – said the results showed any radiological risk from using the fan was negligible.

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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant plans town hall on fan test results

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant plans town hall on fan test results
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WIPP: Staffing, scheduling problems imperil major construction projects

WIPP: Staffing, scheduling problems imperil major construction projects
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