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Sen. Roger Wicker, (R-Miss.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, on Friday sent a letter to Strategic Command (STRATCOM), “demanding a full accounting of why an Iranian propagandist and former regime official participated as a keynote speaker in a STRATCOM-sponsored event.” […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week appointed Brooke Clark its new general counsel, effective Oct. 15. Clark will be the agency’s chief legal advisor. She will replace Marian Zobler who was to retire, the agency wrote in a news release. Since 1998, when she joined the NRC for the first time, Clark has bounced to […]

The Department of Energy will buy a total of $164,000 in renewable energy credits from a Virginia-based company to help the Paducah Site in Kentucky and the Portsmouth Site in Ohio comply with a presidential executive order on clean energy. The renewable credits for Paducah and Portsmouth  are being purchased from WGL Energy Services in […]

William “Ike” White, senior adviser and acting head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, spoke Monday to an international forum in Japan on Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the nuclear cleanup office said Tuesday. The 7th annual international forum on Fukushima cleanup sponsored by Japan’s Nuclear Damage Compensation and […]

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant has started pumping water from the first of a dozen or so planned new groundwater wells as officials attempt to shore up sufficient cooling sources for its six reactors after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam earlier this summer, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Aug. 22. The collapse of […]

In a recent visit to Ukraine, the United Kingdom’s top nuclear energy official discussed providing uranium enrichment services to the embattled nation so its nuclear power plants can stay online this winter. Grant Shapps, the U.K.’s energy security secretary, was in Kyiv just as London announced a $243 million loan allowing Urenco — a British-German-Dutch […]

Frank Rose, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s principal deputy administrator, recently spent a week in East Asia where he visited counterparts in Japan and South Korea. The trip, from July 18 to July 24 “aimed to strengthen bilateral ties, regional nuclear security, and enable discussions of how best to address challenges in the evolving geopolitical […]

On Friday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm will travel to New Mexico to tour Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to meet with the lab’s workers, the agency wrote in a press release. While at Los Alamos, Granholm will meet Field Office Manager Ted Wyka, LANL Director Thom Mason, and NNSA Administrator Jill Hruby […]

The public is invited to a quick gold-cart tour of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station next week, the plant’s community engagement panel wrote in a press release this week. The tour is on the slate for Aug. 17, just ahead of the panel’s next scheduled briefing with plant owner Southern California Edison, which is […]

Personnal at Ukraine’s besieged Zaphorizhzhia nuclear power plant continued to power down some of the plant’s reactors this week when a water leak was detected from a steam generator and amidst continued threats to the facility’s external power supply. Plant personnel this week began transferring the facility’s unit 4 reactor from hot shutdown to cold […]

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors have gained access to the rooftops of two reactors of concern at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and found no mines or explosives, the agency said Aug. 4.  Inspectors had asked for access to the roof area of reactors three and four repeatedly but were denied entry to inspect for […]

The Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant’s Unit 3 reactor, the newest nuclear reactor in the country, started delivering electricity to the grid in Georgia, Georgia Power announced this week. Unit 3 in Waynesboro, Ga., started generating electricity in April. It is the first reactor project to become operational under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Part […]

International Atomic Energy Agency officials have carried out additional inspections at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant over the past week without finding any heavy military equipment, explosives or mines, but they are still awaiting access to the rooftops of the reactor buildings, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on July 20. During visits to portions […]

Thomas Ashley will take over as the permanent director of the office of investigations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 30, the agency announced this week.  Ashley had been the acting director of the office since February, when Tracy Higgs, the previous director, retired. The offices of investigations investigates allegations of wrongdoing by NRC […]

International Atomic Energy Agency officials have carried out additional inspections at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant over the past week without finding any heavy military equipment, explosives or mines, but they are still awaiting access to the rooftops of the reactor buildings, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said on July 20. During visits to portions […]

Wagner Group mercenaries entered a Russian nuclear base where they hoped to steal backpack-sized nuclear weapons to use as bargaining chips during their short-lived mutiny last month, Ukraine’s chief spymaster Kyrylo Budanov told Reuters in a recent interview. U.S. and other Western officials insist that Wagner mercenaries were never within reach of Russian nuclear weapons […]

National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Jill Hruby and nonproliferation lead Corey Hinderstein visited Georgia in June, a nation the agency says is on the frontlines of nuclear-materials smuggling.  The NNSA has “extensive ties” to Georgia, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and has worked in the country for more than 20 years on […]

Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization recommended that the country dispose of intermediate-level and non-fuel, high-level radioactive waste in a deep geologic repository, according to a press release from the non-profit corporation, which at the Canadian federal government’s direction was founded in 2002 by Canada’s utilities to deal with the nation’s radioactive waste. Canada’s Minister of […]

National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Jill Hruby and nonproliferation lead Corey Hinderstein visited Georgia in June, a nation the agency says is on the frontlines of nuclear-materials smuggling.  The NNSA has “extensive ties” to Georgia, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and has worked in the country for more than 20 years on […]

After extensive searches, the International Atomic Energy Agency says there are no visible mines or explosives set by Russian troops at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.  IAEA officials in recent days have been inspecting parts of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), including some sections of the perimeter of the plant’s large cooling pond, the […]

After extensive searches, the International Atomic Energy Agency says there are no visible mines or explosives set by Russian troops at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.  IAEA officials in recent days have been inspecting parts of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), including some sections of the perimeter of the plant’s large cooling pond, the […]

After extensive searches, the International Atomic Energy Agency says there are no visible mines or explosives set by Russian troops at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant.  IAEA officials in recent days have been inspecting parts of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), including some sections of the perimeter of the plant’s large cooling pond, the […]

The International Atomic Energy Agency on July 4 effectively endorsed the safety of a controversial Japanese plan to discharge treated radioactive water from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown accident into the Pacific Ocean. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the United Nations nuclear organization, presented the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report to […]

Randall Hendrickson, a former senior executive with the U.S. federal government, is now a vice president for Atkins Nuclear Secured in Canada, an Atkins spokesperson confirmed by email. Hendrickson joined Atkins in late April and is at the Chalk River location of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as a vice president for business management, the Atkins spokesperson […]

Randall Hendrickson, a former senior executive with the U.S. federal government, is now a vice president for Atkins Nuclear Secured in Canada, an Atkins spokesperson confirmed by email. Hendrickson joined Atkins in late April and is at the Chalk River location of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as a vice president for business management, the Atkins spokesperson […]

Randall Hendrickson, a former senior executive with the U.S. federal government, is now a vice president for Atkins Nuclear Secured in Canada, an Atkins spokesperson confirmed by email. Hendrickson joined Atkins in late April and is at the Chalk River location of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories as a vice president for business management, the Atkins spokesperson […]

Personnel from the National Nuclear Security Administration and the State Department met recently with counterparts from the five Nuclear Weapons States to discuss strategic risk reduction and stemming the spread of nuclear weapons.  Chaired by the U.S. delegation of the Nuclear Weapons States, officials met with counterparts from China, France, Russia and the U.K. in […]

Last week’s breach of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine threatens the stability of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest, by draining a critical source of coolant water, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.  The breach of the dam early on June 6 caused a rapid drop in the water levels of the Kakhovka […]

Last week’s breach of the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine threatens the stability of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest, by draining a critical source of coolant water, the International Atomic Energy Agency said last weekend.  The breach of the dam early on June 6 caused a rapid drop in the water levels of […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration needs at least 50 trained medics ready to treat gunshot trauma “anticipated in a hostile environment,” vehicle accidents on highways and caring for common illnesses for its Office of Secure Transport (OST) personnel.  The agency is seeking a medical service provider capable of training about 50 OST medics at the […]