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The Department of Energy will “move with alacrity” to jumpstart a new civilian uranium refining industry once Congress bans imports of Russian uranium to unlock billions in funding, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm told lawmakers today. “[H]opefully we can get that ban in place,” Granholm said during the first DOE budget hearing of the year […]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday he’s “optimistic” Congress will take action on the pending supplemental with further aid for Ukraine, while adding that Kyiv’s “survival is in danger” in its fight against Russia’s ongoing invasion. “I am optimistic that we will see some action [on the supplemental] moving forward. But, again, this is a […]

The U.N. Security Council met this week in New York to discuss, among other things, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The U.N. released a summary press release of a portion of the meeting, in which U.N. Secretary General António Guterres warned that “geopolitical tensions [are] escalating the risk of nuclear warfare to […]

A Texas woman last week sued the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) in federal court, alleging the commission illegally regulates naturally occurring radioactive material generated by oil and gas industries, according to a complaint filed March 13. Elizabeth Padilla alleges that only the Railroad Commission of Texas can regulate naturally occurring radioactive material from […]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday he’s “optimistic” Congress will take action on the pending supplemental with further aid for Ukraine, while adding that Kyiv’s “survival is in danger” in its fight against Russia’s ongoing invasion. “I am optimistic that we will see some action [on the supplemental] moving forward. But, again, this is a […]

The Department of Energy will “move with alacrity” to jumpstart a new civilian uranium refining industry once Congress bans imports of Russian uranium to unlock billions in funding, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm told lawmakers today. “[H]opefully we can get that ban in place,” Granholm said during the first DOE budget hearing of the year […]

Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) led 24 Democrats who introduced a bill Wednesday that supports the continued value of arms control and condemns Russia for suspending the bilateral New START nuclear arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington. The bill, which was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, calls for the administration of President Joe […]

PHOENIX — Nuclear waste repositories planned in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland will help the public accept that nuclear power is safe, the head of the Nuclear Energy Agency said here Monday. “This is going to help everybody,” William Magwood, director-general for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency, said Monday during prepared […]

Leaders of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee said Tuesday they are working on dueling bills to sanction either all, or parts, of Russia’s state-owned nuclear-energy corporation. “I am in the process of drafting a tough sanctions bill that would mandate the administration decouple the U.S. and our allies from Rosatom,” Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) said […]

PHOENIX— Contaminated old buildings at U.S. nuclear weapons sites are being torn down and, internationally, nuclear power is increasingly seen as a legitimate source of carbon-free electricity, participants in the Waste Management Symposia heard Monday. “For people familiar with EM [the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management], there is no better illustration of progress […]

PHOENIX — Nuclear waste repositories planned in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland will help the public accept that nuclear power is safe, the head of the Nuclear Energy Agency said here Monday. “This is going to help everybody,” William Magwood, director-general for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency, said Monday during prepared […]

PHOENIX— Contaminated old buildings at U.S. nuclear weapons sites are being torn down and, internationally, nuclear power is increasingly seen as a legitimate source of carbon-free electricity, participants in the Waste Management Symposia heard Monday. “For people familiar with EM [the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management], there is no better illustration of progress […]

PHOENIX — The top cleanup officers from the Department of Energy and other U.S. and international nuclear agencies are on hand here this week for the annual Waste Management Symposia conference. Monday’s morning plenary will begin with comments by William (Ike) White, DOE’s senior adviser for the Office of Environmental Management. He will join other […]

Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), spoke this week at the Second International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation in Brussels, which the nuclear-weapons agency co-hosted with the Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control. The NNSA posted Hruby’s prepared remarks online.   During the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors’ meeting […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is again threatening the use of nuclear weapons – this time overtly – after suggestions from European leaders that Western troops could be deployed to Ukraine in non-combat roles.  During his annual State of the Nation address to the country’s Federal Assembly on Thursday, Putin warned NATO countries that Russia would […]

Congressional delay in funding legacy cleanup from nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands — covered in a recent Government Accountability Office report —hurts relations between the United States and the strategically-located Pacific nation, the president of the Marshall Islands told a U.K. newspaper this week. U.S. lawmakers are dragging their feet in funding a […]

Congressional delay in funding legacy cleanup from nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands — covered in a recent Government Accountability Office report —hurts relations between the United States and the strategically-located Pacific nation, the president of the Marshall Islands told a U.K. newspaper this week. U.S. lawmakers are dragging their feet in funding a […]

A high-ranking Japanese member of the Yakuza international organized crime syndicate allegedly planned to traffic materials containing uranium and weapons grade plutonium from Burma to other countries, including Iran, the Department of Justice wrote this week in a press release describing an indictment against Takeshi Ebisawa in the U.S. Southern District of New York. “As […]

Most of the Democratic candidates running for the nomination to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Dianne Feinstein’s death in September do not support a life extension for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in deep-blue California.  In a televised debate Wednesday, a recording of which Los Angeles’ local NBC affiliate posted on […]

A small bipartisan group in the House released a foreign aid bill with new border security policies and war aid for Ukraine, but no stimulus funds for domestic uranium enrichment. The roughly $66-billion bill filed Feb. 15 by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is a counterproposal to the roughly $95-billion foreign aid bill the Senate passed, […]

A small bipartisan group in the House released a foreign aid bill with new border security policies and war aid for Ukraine, but no stimulus funds for domestic uranium enrichment. The roughly $66-billion bill filed Feb. 15 by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is a counterproposal to the roughly $95-billion foreign aid bill the Senate, also […]

A small bipartisan group in the House released a foreign aid bill with new border security policies and war aid for Ukraine, but no stimulus funds for domestic uranium enrichment. The roughly $66-billion bill sponsored by Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) is a counterproposal to the roughly $95-billion foreign aid bill the Senate passed on Thursday, […]

The head of a local government in the United Kingdom said she will not support a deep geologic disposal facility for nuclear waste, the BBC reported this week. Anne Handley, leader of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said she does not want to talk to the U.K. government-owned Nuclear Waste Services about building a […]

The House of Representatives was in no rush this week to consider a Ukraine aid package that would also provide an infusion of funds for monitoring radiological threats in Ukraine combat zones, the Speaker of the House said. “We are not going to be forced into action by the Senate,” Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), the […]

The Senate on Thursday cleared a hurdle to vote on a bill that would bolster the National Nuclear Security Administration’s budget for monitoring potential radiological threats in Ukrainian combat zones. Senators on Thursday voted 67-32 to end debate on the bill, clearing the way for a final floor vote that was not scheduled at deadline […]

Russia has reportedly developed a nuclear war simulator, including blast and mushroom cloud effects, to train troops for fighting after an exchange of nuclear weapons with an adversary. The report comes from state-controlled media outlet Tass and was repeated in U.S. publications including Stars and Stripes. The Tass report comes on the heels of the […]

There remains a “very real potential for a major nuclear accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant after two years of almost non-stop combat near the facility, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. Addressing the council for the sixth time since the war began […]

The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Waste Services identified South Holderness, in the county of East Riding of Yorkshire in east-central England between the Humber River and North Sea coast, as a candidate host community for a deep geologic disposal facility for nuclear waste. The government-owned company this week announced the formation of a Geological Disposal Facility […]

After more than a year of trying, International Atomic Energy Agency teams experts on Monday were granted access to the sixth and final reactor hall at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant. Situated on the frontlines of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the plant has been under Russian occupation almost since the beginning of Moscow’s February 2022 […]

Michael Lempke is now leading Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Australia business, where he will shepherd the shipbuilder and nuclear-site manager’s portion of the tripartite AUKUS agreement between the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Lempke, most recently president of the company’s Nuclear and Environmental Services group, took the post on Jan.1, Huntington Ingalls (HII) said in a statement […]