International

The administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration is the Department of Energy’s delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 64th annual General Conference in Vienna next week, the DOE nuke agency said Thursday. The annual meeting of the United Nations body, which promotes peaceful uses of nuclear energy and nuclear-weapons nonproliferation, is scheduled to […]

China has more than 200 nuclear warheads and about enough fissile material on hand to make at least that many more, according to a report published Tuesday by the Department of Defense. Doubling that stockpile is exactly what Beijing is likely to do over the next 10 years, the Pentagon stated in the 2020 version […]

China has more than 200 nuclear warheads and about enough fissile material on hand to make at least that many more, according to a report published Tuesday by the Department of Defense. Doubling that stockpile is exactly what Beijing is likely to do over the next 10 years, the Pentagon stated in the 2020 version […]

Marshall Billingslea may yet officially become the State Department’s top arms-control official, after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday recommended his nomination for a floor vote. The 11-10 vote was split along party lines, with Democrats uniformly opposing Billingslea’s nomination as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security and Republicans almost unanimously […]

The government of the United Kingdom said Friday it would in 2021 assume ownership of the privately held entities managing disposal of the nation’s low-level radioactive waste and cleanup at a retired reactor site in Scotland. Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd. will become a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in March 2021, […]

Jacobs said Wednesday it started work in June on a four-year contract to provide technical services for the United Kingdom’s repository for low-level radioactive waste. The contract is valued at £9 million ($11.2 million), according to a release from LLW Repository Ltd. Work carried out under the repository infrastructure framework deal will include mechanical and […]

The Canadian government said Friday it has formally terminated its environmental review of a now-canceled proposal from Ontario Power Generation (OPG) for deep geologic disposal of radioactive waste on the grounds of its Bruce nuclear power plant. “The Minister of Environment and Climate Change has terminated the environmental assessment of the Deep Geologic Repository for […]

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has terminated one of the primary contracts for remediation of radioactive contamination at Port Hope, Ontario. As of June 30, Ottawa-based Milestone Environmental Contracting will no longer be in charge of cleanup of Port Hope Harbor and the Center Pier under the Port Hope Area Initiative, according to a press release […]

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has terminated one of the primary contracts for remediation of radioactive contamination at Port Hope, Ontario. As of June 30, Ottawa-based Milestone Environmental Contracting will no longer be in charge of cleanup of Port Hope Harbor and the Center Pier under the Port Hope Area Initiative, according to a press release […]

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) in Canada could by September begin preparing to drill the first test boreholes in the second of two locations still in contention to house a deep geologic repository for spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear power plants. At least two boreholes will be drilled starting this fall in South […]

SHINE Medical Technologies expects in the next five years to site isotope production facilities in Europe and Asia, one staffer said Wednesday. The company is currently more than a year from receiving anticipated federal regulatory approval to open its first production plant, in Janesville, Wis., for the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). “At full capacity, SHINE […]

SHINE Medical Technologies expects in the next five years to locate facilities in Europe and Asia, one staffer said Wednesday. The company is currently more than a year from receiving anticipated federal regulatory approval to open its first production plant, in Janesville, Wis., for the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). “At full capacity, SHINE intends to […]

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) in Canada could by September begin preparing to drill test boreholes in one of two locations still in contention to house a geologic repository for spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear power plants. At least two boreholes will be drilled in South Bruce, in southern Ontario, as part of […]

By John Stang California-based radioactive waste disposal company Deep Isolation is increasing its focus on business opportunities in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. On Tuesday, executives conducted a webinar to introduce their company to potential clients in the “EMEA” region. A follow-up session is planned for June 16. The online meetings are an opportunity […]

Remediation of radioactively contaminated municipalities in Ontario, Canada, has been knocked off schedule by the COVID-19 pandemic, but organizers hope to claw back time as work ramps up in coming months. In March, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories halted nearly all field operations under the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI), just ahead of the program’s annual construction […]

The United Kingdom’s Sellafield nuclear site is resuming some cleanup operations and ramping up the number of on-site personnel, after two months of COVID-19 precautions. Site operator Sellafield Ltd. in late March reducing staffing inside the fence from over 8,000 to roughly 1,500 “key workers,” according to a May 22 update. It hopes by the […]

The United Kingdom’s privately operated Low-Level Waste Repository Ltd. (LLWR) on Monday said it would distribute as much as £65 million ($79.8 million) among six companies for radioactive waste treatment services. The “framework contract” has a four-year ordering period, according to an LLWR press release. The participating companies are: Active Collection Bureau, Augean Treatment, Cyclife […]

Centrus Energy CEO Daniel Poneman will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from the Japanese government for his work as deputy energy secretary during the Barack Obama administration. Japan will recognize Poneman for “his contributions towards enhancing the relationship between Japan and the United States of America in the energy sector,” […]

Centrus Energy CEO Daniel Poneman will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from the Japanese government for his work as deputy energy secretary during the Barack Obama administration. Japan will recognize Poneman for “his contributions towards enhancing the relationship between Japan and the United States of America in the energy sector,” […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Monday it had issued a roughly $240,000 fixed-price contract to a small business in Georgia to provide almost a quarter-million, Chinese-made, KN95-style respirator masks for its contractor and federal employees. “This order is to procure masks for NNSA to meet expected demand when employees return to work,” an agency […]

The privately held Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) will stay on for at least four more years as the operator of facilities owned by federal Crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL). Atomic Energy of Canada announced Monday that it had exercised the four-year option on CNL’s contract. The six-year base for the award began […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Monday it had issued a roughly $240,000 fixed-price contract to a small business in Georgia to provide almost a quarter-million, Chinese-made, KN95-style respirator masks for its contractor and federal employees. “This order is to procure masks for NNSA to meet expected demand when employees return to work,” an agency […]

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defense wants to buy American for the future of the country’s nuclear security-sharing mission with the United States, urging lawmakers to approve the purchase of 30 Boeing F/A-18 aircraft to carry future B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs. The German publication Der Spiegel on April 29 reported that Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer informed Secretary […]

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Defence wants to buy American for the future of the country’s nuclear security-sharing mission with the United States, urging lawmakers to approve the purchase of 30 Boeing F/A-18 aircraft to carry future B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs. The German publication Der Spiegel on Sunday reported that Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer informed Secretary […]

Regulators in Canada have requested additional detail on Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ environmental impact statement (EIS) for its planned near-surface disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste at the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario. The group of federal and provincial officials, headed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), submitted 37 information requests for the updated EIS […]

The United States and Russia were each deploying fewer strategic nuclear weapons as of March 1 than they did six months earlier, according to the Department of State’s latest data on the bilateral New START nuclear treaty. Since the last official State-published tally in September 2019, Russia cut more strategic warheads from its arsenal than […]

The United States and Russia were each deploying fewer strategic nuclear weapons as of March 1 than they did six months earlier, according to the Department of State’s latest data on the bilateral New START nuclear treaty. Since the last official State-published tally in September 2019, Russia cut more strategic warheads from its arsenal than […]

The organization planning Canada’s deep geologic repository for spent fuel from nuclear power plants hopes engagement with First Nations peoples can help it avoid a major complication that recently befell a similar project for radioactive waste disposal. In February, Ontario Power Generation terminated plans to build a repository for low- and intermediate-level waste on the […]

All field work was halted Wednesday at a large-scale cleanup project for radioactive contaminants spread across two municipalities in Ontario, Canada, in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. In a late-morning Tweet, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories said it had suspended field operations at the Port Hope Project and Port Granby Project, which are managed jointly under […]

All field work was halted Wednesday at a massive cleanup project for radioactive contaminants spread across two municipalities in Ontario, Canada, in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. In a late-morning tweet, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories said it had suspended field operations at the Port Hope Project and Port Granby Project, which are managed jointly under […]