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Twenty-five years ago, after terrorists flew airplanes into New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Virginia, then-Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham ordered all Department of Energy facilities be placed in high security status. “All non-essential DOE personnel are evacuated and sent home,” according to a DOE webpage on Sept. 11, 2001. As for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) it immediately notified all its nuclear license holders and activated its 24-hour emergency operations center, according to an Internet search. In the months and years that followed, NRC took a variety of steps designed to better safeguard U.S. nuclear plants. “All shipments of nuclear materials are halted; nuclear operations around… |
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| Weapons Complex Morning Briefing |
Groups demand NEPA review of plan to provide surplus plutonium to private companies
The South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) is demanding the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) conduct a public environmental review of plans to provide 19.7 metric tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium to private nuclear companies.… |
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| Weapons Complex Monitor |
DOE review looks at Hanford glass-making plant
An independent assessment by a branch of the Department of Energy last month issued a couple of findings calling for Bechtel National and its subcontractor to make certain improvements at the Hanford Site Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP). DOE’s… |
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| RadWaste & Materials Monitor |
West Virginia becomes sixth state picked under DOE’s nuclear campus program
West Virginia has been selected as a finalist to host a nuclear campus under a high-profile Department of Energy program Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) announced in a Tuesday press conference. West Virginia is now the sixth state to be considered… |
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| Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Y-12 completes B61-13 canned subassembly production early
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Thursday its Y-12 National Security Complex has completed production and acceptance testing of the B61-13’s canned subassemblies, finishing the work roughly seven months ahead of schedule. The milestone fulfills a timeline NNSA Administrator… |
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