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Some Vaccine Refusal Firings Already at LANL, Sandia; Dec. 8 Deadline Looms Across Enterprise
Most National Nuclear Security Administration sites have given employees until Dec. 8 to get vaccinated, but some people at labs in New Mexico have already been terminated for refusing to at least begin a vaccine course.  At the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the northern part of the state, nearly 300 people have left the laboratory recently or gone on unpaid leave, according to someone familiar with management’s assessment of recent employee separations.  The tally includes some 130 retirements, about as many people who took unpaid leave — the lab’s sole accommodation for people who refuse to get vaccinated because of their religious beliefs — and 30 people who were…		 Upcoming Events

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Hanford Tank Waste RFP, Worth Up to $45B, Hits the Street
A solicitation for a massive contract worth up to $45 billion over 10 years for overseeing radioactive tank waste and running the vitrification plant at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state was released Thursday by the agency’s…
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Nuclear Submarine Partnership Not Necessarily Exclusive, U.K.’s Top General Says
A three-way partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia to help the latter acquire nuclear-powered submarines “is not designed in any way to be exclusive,” the U.K. military’s highest-ranking uniformed officer said this week. The trilateral deal,…
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ISP Defends Itself in Texas Interim Storage Lawsuit
The company in charge of a recently-licensed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Texas is getting involved in the state’s federal suit against the proposed site, according to recent court filings. A judge in the U.S. fifth circuit…
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Savannah River “Targeting” Downblend of 34 Metric-Ton Tranche of Plutonium in FY 2026
The National Nuclear Security Administration is “targeting” fiscal year 2026 as the startup date for a new facility at the Savannah River Site that will process 34 metric tons of surplus weapon usable plutonium for disposal in New Mexico, an…
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