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Inside a B53 bomb — literally
During a Nov. 12 “special access” tour at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, which included a visit to Building 9731, the original pilot plant for the electromagnetic processes that separated the U-235...
View ArticleNo news on Y-12’s search for DU
Early this year, Y-12 contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security announced that it was looking for thousands of tons of high-purity depleted uranium and asked for expressions of interest from potential...
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News of note (briefly)
Morgan McCorkle, a public affairs specialist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the past five years, has been named the lab’s media relations manager. McCorkle (pictured, left) will report to...
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Tentative five-year contract agreement at Y-12; 1,100 workers to vote on...
The Atomic Trades and Labor Council, which represents about 1,100 union workers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, has reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract. The ATLC reached the...
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Just an opinion
I’m not a big fan of The Star, a fluffy new magazine put together by Consolidated Nuclear Security, the managing contractor at Y-12 and Pantex. It’s OK, but I much preferred The Y-12 Report, a...
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Y-12 workers vote on proposed contract
Shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, Y-12 workers stood in line to vote on a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. Two voting booths were set up inside the Machinists Union Hall in Oak Ridge....
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Fixing equipment at 9212 a key part of uranium project
Y-12 is trying to clean house, so to speak, at its main uranium-processing center — the notoriously antiquated 9212 complex, parts of which date back to the World War II Manhattan Project. To prepare...
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More photos from the ATLC voting scene
Shawn Estepp, a 13-year electrician at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, signs the union roster Thursday afternoon as he gets ready to vote on whether to ratify a new five-year labor agreement. Below,...
View ArticleY-12 workers ratify new 5-year contract
Union workers at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant on Thursday ratified a new collective bargaining agreement, which includes a 3 percent wage increase in each of the contract’s five years and a one-time...
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News of note (briefly)
Consolidated Nuclear Security, the government’s managing contractor at Y-12, said it recycled about 23,000 tons of asphalt that was removed during site preparations for the Uranium Processing Facility,...
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HEU for naval reactors
In a Department of Energy report submitted earlier this fall to Congress (and released online by the Union of Concerned Scientists), DOE said the highly enriched uranium recovered from retired nuclear...
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UPF opponents plan ‘Tell the Taxpayer’ rally
Activists opposed to construction of the Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge plan to stage a “Tell The Taxpayer” rally Wednesday in downtown Knoxville near the local offices of Sen. Lamar...
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How much spent on UPF office space?
The office facility at 1060 Commerce Park houses part of the project team for the Uranium Processing Facility. (KNS photo/Michael Patrick) The project team for the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) is...
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Watching the world
As noted in an earlier post, there have been some discernible changes in the security posture at Y-12 following the shooting attack on two military sites in Chattanooga in July. Those changes included...
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Fix-it-up strategy moving ahead at Y-12’s uranium hub
As noted in an earlier post, Y-12 contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security is making it a priority to fix some unreliable equipment in the 9212 uranium processing complex. It’s part of a strategy to...
View ArticleSafety Forum Dec. 16 features labor voices
Key labor officials in Oak Ridge will speak at a community safety forum Wednesday morning (Dec. 16) at the American Museum of Science & Energy. The topic is “Site Safety Culture.” The event is...
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Y-12 contractor seeks expressions of interest on emergency ops center
Consolidated Nuclear Security, the government’s managing contractor at Y-12 (as well as Pantex), is seeking expressions of interest from companies for the fixed-price design of a new Emergency...
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CNS gets ‘disappointing’ performance score of 57
Consolidated Nuclear Security’s first report card from the government was not a good one. The contractor received a performance score of 57 out of 100. CNS, a Bechtel-led partnership, took over...
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Despite low rating, CNS earns $42.6M in fees
Despite Consolidated Nuclear Security’s low performance rating for its first 15 months on the job, the contractor received a total of about $42.6 million in fees from the National Nuclear Security...
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Changing of the guard at the ATLC
With freshly negotiated labor contracts in place at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant, it’s a new era, and there’s a changing of the guard at the Atomic Trades and Labor...
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