Frank Munger

As I noted the other day on my blog, "Atomic City Underground," strange bedfellows can be found in places other than politics. In U.S. Department of Energy contracting, for instance.

According to a new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average annual U.S. household energy expenditure rose to $2,024 in 2009, which was up 11.8 percent from the previous survey in 2005.

It looks like it may be a little easier for the families of some early Oak Ridge employees to collect from the government compensation program for sick nuclear workers.

There's a lot taking place on the Oak Ridge security front, or so it seems.

EnergySolutions, the Utah-based company with a big Oak Ridge presence, has undergone some topsy-turvy days in recent times, with a shake-up at the top (new chief executive officer), sliding stock prices and credit rating, and continuing rumors about the possible ...

Earth's axis didn't shift or anything like that, but there was a change in the federal order of things this week involving the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge.

After months of anticipation (and, in some cases, dread), the restructuring of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge office is now in effect and will be fully implemented by July 1.

The financial future of USEC Inc.'s American Centrifuge Project — and, in turn, the Oak Ridge role in research and manufacturing of centrifuge machines for the project — continues to ride the edge of the cliff.

With this being an election year, there are questions about whether the National Nuclear Security Administration will award the huge contract consolidating management of the Y-12 and Pantex nuclear weapons plants — and possibly the tritium operations at Savannah River ...

One of the strangest episodes in the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge cleanup program — and there have been quite a few strange episodes — occurred on Aug. 8, 2005.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge office is spending about $3 million in Recovery Act money on a project that may ultimately redefine the boundaries of federal property included on the Superfund's National Priorities List.

The newly released report by the National Park Service, which strongly recommends saving a piece of the historic K-25 uranium-enrichment facility, gave new energy to some preservationists who thought salvaging part of the original World War II-era structure was pretty ...

Earlier this week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its updated list of Top 50 Green Power Partnership organizations, which voluntarily use clean, renewable electricity "from resources such as solar, wind and low-impact hydropower."

I've been writing about Y-12's plans to introduce microwaves into the weapons program for so long that it seems like old news. But it's still a work in progress.

A sort of nuclear version of demolition derby takes place daily on the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge reservation.