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Labor shortage outlasts COVID, delays nuclear-weapons infrastructure, NNSA administrator says
A labor shortage initially blamed on COVID-19, but which has outlasted the nationwide response to the pandemic, hamstrung construction of new nuclear weapons factories and forced a construction triage at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency’s administrator told lawmakers Tuesday. The construction or “craft” labor shortages at various sites contributed to several program delays, including planned plutonium pit production facilities in New Mexico and South Carolina and the Uranium Processing Facility in Tennessee, Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said Tuesday in a hearing of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee. “Of all of the issues that we have, construction and labor shortages are…		 Upcoming Events

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DOE suspending water injection to contain Los Alamos hexavalent chromium
The Department of Energy will temporarily suspend some work to contain underground hexavalent chromium contamination at the Los Alamos National Laboratory while talks continue with New Mexico officials over the effectiveness of the process, officials said Wednesday night. The agency’s…
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Savannah River liquid waste timelines ‘moving target’ over years, DOE critic says
A few days before Christmas, the Department of Energy, together with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency agreed to the broad framework for completing radioactive tank waste cleanup at the Savannah…
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Constellation turns in latest cost estimate for Three Mile Island, updates spent fuel plan
It will take about another $1.1 billion to completely decommission the Three Mile Island Unit-1 reactor in Pennsylvania, Constellation Energy Generation told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a new detailed cost estimate published this week. The roughly 40-page updated site-specific…
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Senators still favor nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile that was zeroed out in Biden budget
The Biden Administration’s desire to cancel a new lower-yield nuclear submarine-launched cruise missile still doesn’t sit well with the leadership of the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee.  Both subcommittee Chair Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and ranking member Sen. Deb…
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