The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Safety and Security Enforcement Program conducts enforcement activities for Federal regulatory requirements pertaining to worker safety and health, nuclear safety, and classified and sensitive information security under authorities granted to the Secretary of Energy by the Atomic Energy Act. This includes the authority to levy civil penalties against DOE contractors and subcontractors that violate Departmental requirements in these areas. The enforcement program uses a variety of mechanisms, which are reflected on this web site, to communicate with DOE contractors about regulatory and compliance issues. These mechanisms include Notices of Violation, Consent Orders, Settlement Agreements, Compliance Orders, Special Report Orders, and Enforcement Letters.
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Related to machine guarding and hazardous energy control programs and a roll mill crush event at the Kansas City National Security Campus.
May 18, 2022
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Related to a subcontract worker fall event at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
June 10, 2021
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Related to hazardous energy control events, and an electrical shock event, resulting in injury at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
March 12, 2021
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Related to serious injury during material handling activity at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
November 18, 2020
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Related to machine guarding and hazardous energy control programs and finger amputation event at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
October 13, 2020
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Related to industrial hygiene program requirements at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
September 18, 2020
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Related to several electrical relay failures and fire response events at Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor.
March 31, 2020
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Related to a near miss involving a backhoe tip over event at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
March 6, 2020
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Related to an electrical shock from an energized insulation retaining wire at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
January 24, 2020
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Related to the unauthorized access to an area designated as a Very High Radiation Area (VHRA) at Argonne National Laboratory.
July 14, 2021
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Related to an employee’s dosimeter indicating a dose exceeding the limits specified in 10 C.F.R. § 835.202 at Pantex Plant.
July 14, 2021
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Related to an outer fuel element failure at the High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
April 13, 2021
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Related to deficiencies in the radiation protection program implementation at the Portsmouth Site.
January 13, 2021
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Related to deficiencies a drum overpressurization event at the Accelerated Retrieval Project (ARP) V facility (WMF-1617) at the Idaho Cleanup Project.
November 20, 2020
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Evaluation of two incidents involving inadequate implementation of nuclear criticality safety program elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
September 29, 2020
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Related to nuclear criticality control weaknesses at Y-12 National Security Complex.
April 15, 2020
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Related to the spread of radiological contamination outside of the established radiological boundary of the Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford.
April 1, 2019
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Related to the implementation of a software quality assurance program at DOE’s Hanford Site.
November 6, 2018
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Related to the introduction of classified information into unapproved information systems and potential unauthorized disclosure of classified information at DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)
May 25, 2021
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Related to a security incident involving the unauthorized use of classified information systems and potential disclosure of classified information by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.
May 7, 2021
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Related to the Incidents of Security Concern program at the Savannah River Site.
August 22, 2019
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Related to the improper shipment and storage of classified archived records.
July 27, 2018
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Related to electronic testing equipment at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
May 23, 2018
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Related to a security event involving the unauthorized disclosure of classified information at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
August 18, 2017
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Security Enforcement Letter issued to Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC regarding the disposition of classified information at the Pantex Plant
December 2, 2016
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Security Enforcement Letter issued to Sandia Corporation regarding two classified information security incidents
September 8, 2016
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Security Enforcement Preliminary Notice of Violation issued to Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services Y-12, LLC
February 1, 2016
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Security Enforcement Letter issued to Los Alamos National Security, LLC
September 23, 2015
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