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Delays mount for underground lab upgrades seen as critical for new Navy nuke
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Upgrades to a nuclear-weapon test facility in Nevada are falling further behind schedule, government officials and weapon-site managers said here Wednesday. Officially called Enhanced Capability for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE), the upgrades involve expanding the Nevada National Security Site’s U1a underground complex and installing a sophisticated new x-ray camera to measure explosive plutonium tests. The expansion has slipped about a year since the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) set the schedule last summer and the equipment could be three years behind or more, owing in part to the materials shortages that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Los Alamos National Laboratory was hoping for the…		 Upcoming Events

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NRC greenlights Church Rock waste disposal plan
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a plan to dispose of radioactive waste from the site of a 1979 mine spill in New Mexico, the agency announced this week. NRC Wednesday greenlit a license amendment for the shuttered United Nuclear Corporation…
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IWTU starts up with simulant; ‘real waste’ ops planned next month in Idaho
The Department of Energy and its cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory started operating the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit Monday with simulant, an agency official told a local citizens group on Thursday. After completing plant warm up over the…
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Tenth Circuit scraps NM interim storage suit
In yet another setback for opponents of two proposed private interim storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel, a second federal court has dismissed the state of New Mexico’s lawsuit over the projects, court filings show. In a ruling published Feb.…
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80-plus pits needed annually in future; Savannah River to pick up the slack, NNSA admin says
ALEXANDRIA, VA. — With delays piling up for its two planned plutonium pit factories, the National Nuclear Security Administration already believes it will have to exceed the military’s minimum annual order for the nuclear weapon cores, the head of the…
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