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Watts Bar 2 to Start Weapons Tritium Production When Current Refueling Outage Wraps
When the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Unit 2 nuclear reactor reactivates from a refueling outage that started Oct. 26, it will begin producing tritium for nuclear weapons for the first time, a National Nuclear Security Administration spokesperson said Monday. The specialized rods will start producing yield-boosting gas for nuclear weapons during Watts Bar Unit 2’s Cycle 4. Watts Bar Unit 1 already makes tritium and is on its 17th fuel cycle. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) loaded Watts Bar Unit 1 was loaded with 1,792 tritium producing burnable absorber rods for its current cycle; Unit 2 is supposed to get 900 rods for its first tritium-producing cycle, according to…		 Upcoming Events

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New Mexico Biding its Time With Permits for LANL Tritium Venting
The state of New Mexico last week was noncommittal about when it might approve a pair of permits the Los Alamos National Laboratory needs to vent tritium gas into the atmosphere. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the venting,…
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Pandemic Numbers Continue Surge at Nuclear Cleanup Sites
There are 194 active cases of COVID-19 across the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup complex as of Thursday. The number represents an increase of 53 over the 141 active cases a week ago, a DOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)…
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Biden Transition Announcements Largely Skirt Nuclear Power, Waste Issues
President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his transition team this week, and though the landing team bound for the Department of Energy was 20 deep and stacked with nuclear-savvy ex-DOEers, the announcement revealed little about the incoming chief-executive’s thinking on nuclear waste…
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Final Solicitation for Y-12, Pantex Contact Drops; Senate Questions Lack of Competition for DOE, NNSA Contracts
The same day the National Nuclear Security Administration requested proposals for a potentially decades-long contract to run two of its three major nuclear weapons production sites, Senate appropriators asked why there is so little competition for such contracts at the…
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