Subscribe  /  advertise  /  contact
FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Hanford Becomes Latest DOE Site Targeted in Vax Order Litigation
Management and contractors at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state were targeted in a lawsuit filed this week by a group of about 290 employees resisting a federal order to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Security guards and various other employees at the site filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Washington seeking an injunction against the vaccine mandate at the nuclear cleanup property that produced plutonium for the U.S. military during the Cold War. The plaintiffs, represented by a law firm associated with the Washington state-based Silent Majority Foundation, want the federal court to step in and prevent their “imminent and wrongful termination.” A…		 Upcoming Events

Nuclear Deterrence Summit
February 7-9, 2022
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
Arlington, VA
Register Now
Weapons Complex Morning Briefing
Australia Doesn’t Want ‘Domestic Nuclear Industry’ With Nuke Submarines, Ambassador Says
Australia is not planning to create a domestic nuclear industry to support the highly enriched uranium-powered submarines the country hopes to build using U.S. and U.K. technology, Canberra’s ambassador said this week. “The subs will be using HEU [highly enriched…
Weapons Complex Monitor
Emissions Delay IWTU Test Run; Roughly 70% of Fluor Idaho Workers Vaccinated
Fluor Idaho, which is winding down its $2.3-billion cleanup contract at the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, paused a test run with simulant at the long-anticipated Integrated Waste Treatment Unit due to visible emissions coming from a stack during…
Featured Jobs

R&D Manager, Fire, Risk, & Transportation Systems Department
Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, NM

Intern - Deputy 8801 CHRES - R&D Graduate Summer
Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, NM

R&D, Nuclear Engineer (Experienced)
Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, NM

Intern - Storage and Transportation Technologies R&D Undergraduate Summer
Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque, NM
 
RadWaste Monitor
Texas AG Argues Federal Overreach in Suit Against Recently Licensed ISP Interim Storage Facility
Fighting to keep its lawsuit over a proposed interim storage site alive, Texas’ attorney general said this week that the Lonestar State deserves its day in federal court because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has effectively licensed a permanent nuclear repository…
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
B61-12 First Production Unit ‘Nearing Completion,’ NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration is almost finished with a proof-of-concept unit that will kick off mass production of the homogenized version of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, an agency spokesperson said this week. “The B61-12 program is nearing the…
©2021 Access Intelligence, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without expressed written permission of Access Intelligence, LLC is prohibited. ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums is a registered trademark of Access Intelligence, LLC.