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House, Senate split on killing B83 and SLCM-N
House authorizers want to kill a megaton-capable gravity bomb and a nuclear-tipped, sea-launched cruise missile, but their counterparts in the Senate do not. The split on the Hill over the two weapons, which the Joe Biden administration wants to kill, was revealed Thursday in dueling National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023.  Democrats control both chambers of Congress, but only by a razor-thin, 51-50 margin in the Senate, where the party needs Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie breaking vote on the floor. Senate committees, meanwhile, are evenly split. Republicans have opposed, as a bloc, canceling the weapons.  The Senate Armed Services Committee approved its NDAA behind closed doors…		 Upcoming Events
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Hanford vax foes plan federal court appeal
At least some of the 300 employees involved with an unsuccessful federal court challenge to the COVID-19 vaccination policy at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state could take their case to the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals,…
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New chief of waste and materials management at EM
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management appointed Betsy Forinash, a 30-year veteran of nuclear-cleanup and regulatory work, as the deputy assistant secretary for waste and materials management, the cleanup branch said Thursday. Forinash’s selection was announced by Candice…
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NWPA update for interim storage ‘could take years,’ DOE acting spent fuel chief says
It might be years before there is any legal way for the Department of Energy to build a federally operated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel before first building a permanent repository, the agency’s acting head of nuclear waste…
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Three weapons uranium systems at Y-12 delayed along with Uranium Processing Facility
Three uranium processing systems for nuclear weapons at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., will be delayed for six months or more, a federal nuclear safety agency reported last week. Y-12’s electrorefining and direct chip melt front-loading…
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