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National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose visited Tajikistan in early October, the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency wrote in a statement this week. Rose participated in a ribbon cutting at the Fotehobod automobile border-crossing point in the Mastchoh district of Tajikstan’s Sogd region, near the country’s western border with Uzbekistan. […]

In the nine months just ended, renationalization of the U.K. nuclear weapons complex cost Lockheed Martin’s Space segment more than three quarters of a billion dollars, the company reported Tuesday. Bringing the British weapons program fully back into the government’s arms dropped sales in Lockheed Space by some $865 million over the past nine months, […]

In the nine months just ended, renationalization of the U.K. nuclear weapons complex cost Lockheed Martin’s Space segment more than three quarters of a billion dollars, the company reported Tuesday. Bringing the British weapons program fully back into the government’s arms dropped sales in Lockheed Space by some $865 million over the past nine months, […]

The nuclear-powered submarines Australia wants will likely include U.S.-built nuclear reactors and be preceded by a joint U.S.-Australian command of a Virginia-class attack submarine, a member of the House Armed Services Committee said in a recent virtual event. “I think the way to do that is to just say that BWXT will produce those reactors, they’ll […]

Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Before we head off into the weekend, here are some other stories that RadWaste Monitor was tracking this week from across the civilian nuclear power space. Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm was scheduled Oct. 26 to hold a press conference with the head of the United Nations’ nuclear power authority during an international […]

The nuclear-powered submarines Australia wants will likely include U.S.-built nuclear reactors and be preceded by a joint U.S.-Australian command of a Virginia-class attack submarine, a member of the House Armed Services Committee said in a recent virtual event. “I think the way to do that is to just say that BWXT will produce those reactors, […]

During her ongoing travel overseas this week, Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, visited the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan: a former nuclear test site for the Soviet Union.  The NNSA shared a few photos from the visit on Twitter.   John Clauser, a physicist who spent time at Department of Energy […]

Cavendish Nuclear, an international nuclear player in countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom, opened a United States office headquarters Sept. 22 in Arlington, Va., a spokesperson confirmed by email Wednesday. The nuclear industries in the United Kingdom and United States “share many similarities in their plant designs, operational histories and in the search […]

Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Before we head off into the weekend, here are a couple of other stories that RadWaste Monitor was tracking from across the civilian nuclear power space this week. Granholm talks ‘re-establishing U.S. leadership in nuclear energy’ at IAEA conference Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm spoke this week at the International Atomic Energy […]

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm led a large Department of Energy delegation to the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 66th general conference in Vienna, Austria this week. Senior officials from the DOE and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) attended. In a speech during the plenary session, Granholm said the U.S. is “working […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week proposed a series of amendments to its regulations for packaging and transporting radioactive material, which the agency said would bring its oversight in line with international standards. The proposed changes, which NRC announced in a Federal Register notice Monday, are aimed at “harmonization with the International Atomic Energy Agency […]

The state of New Mexico was scheduled to present its case against a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel to a panel of judges before Thanksgiving, court documents show. Santa Fe’s lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which aims to block two proposed private interim storage sites in New Mexico and Texas, is […]

The state of New Mexico was scheduled to present its case against a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel to a panel of judges before Thanksgiving, court documents show. Santa Fe’s lawsuit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which aims to block two proposed private interim storage sites in New Mexico and Texas, is […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday proposed a series of amendments to its regulations for packaging and transporting radioactive material, which the agency said would bring its oversight in line with international standards. The proposed changes, which NRC announced in a Federal Register notice Monday, are aimed at “harmonization with the International Atomic Energy Agency […]

Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Before we head off into the weekend, here are some other stories that RadWaste Monitor was tracking this week. While disconnected from grid, shelling causes further damage at Zaporizhzhia plant Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant has sustained more damage amid ongoing hostilities between the Ukrainian military and invading Russian forces, the United […]

In a meeting with state lawmakers in New Mexico last week, a Holtec International executive sought to allay fears that the company’s proposed spent fuel storage facility in Eddy County would become a permanent repository for nuclear waste. “Interim storage — and it is interim — will be measured in decades,” Ed Mayer, the project […]

Speaking to state lawmakers last week, Holtec International’s interim storage chief sought to allay fears that the company’s proposed spent fuel storage facility in the Land of Enchantment would become a permanent repository for nuclear waste. “Interim storage — and it is interim — will be measured in decades,” Ed Mayer, the project lead for […]

Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. Before we kick off the last week of summer, here are some other stories that RadWaste Monitor was tracking this week. IAEA director Grossi visits embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week visited Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant amid reports that it had again become the site […]

Like the U.S. Department of Energy, the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is in the market for local communities open to hosting an underground disposal facility for radioactive waste. “Our mission goes beyond existing sites,” David Peattie, CEO of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said in a recent annual report for 2021-2022. The NDA is […]

Australia’s defense minister said recently he hopes the AUKUS agreement will create a “seamless” defense industrial base among the U.S., U.K. and Australia as the first two countries work to help the third acquire nuclear propulsion technology for attack submarines. In meetings with U.S. officials “we’ve been specifically talking about how we can have our […]

A district court in Japan last week ruled top executives at Tokyo Electric Power Co. are personally liable for 13 trillion yen, the equivalent of (U.S.) $95 billion, in connection with the meltdown of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors in Mach 2011 following a powerful tsunami, news organizations reported. A key finding in the ruling was […]

Spent fuel reprocessing operations will cease next month and work will shift totally to cleanup at the Sellafield Magnox plant in northern England, according to a recent press release from the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd. Since 1964, the plant has reprocessed about 55,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from the […]

Spent fuel reprocessing operations will cease next month and work will shift totally to cleanup at the Sellafield Magnox plant in northern England, according to a recent press release from the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd. Since 1964, the plant has reprocessed about 55,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from the […]

Happy Friday, nuke-watchers. With a long weekend behind us and a regular old weekend ahead, here are some other stories from across the civilian nuclear power space that RadWaste Monitor was tracking this week. Next week in Vegas: Exchange Monitor’s Decommissioning Strategy Forum Mark your calendars — Monday, June 6 is the start of the […]

A senior U.S. arms control negotiator on Thursday would not endorse limiting the U.S. nuclear arsenal to the 1,550 strategic warheads prescribed by the New START treaty with Russia if the treaty expires in 2026 without a new accord in place.  “I don’t think we should sort of right now figure out what is the […]

The Arms Control Association’s annual meeting was scheduled to begin in Washington Thursday morning, with addresses from U.S. and U.N. officials planned throughout the proceedings, the disarmament-advocating group said. The Washington-based non-government group was scheduled to hold the meeting at the National Press Club in Washington, a few blocks from the White House, beginning at […]

In a virtual address to a gathering of nuclear weapons professionals on Thursday, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration touted the White House’s Nuclear Posture Review for its support of civilian nuclear weapon programs, advocated for more exports of peaceful nuclear-energy technology and said that Russia’s war in Ukraine has resurrected old nonproliferation […]

The Russian Federation — which in February again invaded neighboring Ukraine — on May 21 expanded a list of sanctions against U.S. citizens. Most, but not all, of these people are federal lawmakers and some of those federal lawmakers have a history of involvement with, or a significant degree of power over, U.S. nuclear weapons […]

The Russian Federation — which in February again invaded neighboring Ukraine — on May 21 expanded a list of sanctions against U.S. citizens. Most, but not all, of these people are federal lawmakers and some of those federal lawmakers have a history of involvement with, or a significant degree of power over, U.S. nuclear weapons […]

Over the weekend the Russian Federation — which in February again invaded neighboring Ukraine — expanded a list of sanctions against U.S. citizens. Most of the U.S. citizens were federal lawmakers and some of those federal lawmakers have a history of involvement with, or a significant degree of power over, U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear […]