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Tube troubles continue at BWXT, but earnings solid in 2Q
While it has fixed the bad welds that plagued the program last decade, BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., is still having trouble manufacturing common missile compartment tubes for Columbia-, Virginia- and Dreadnought-class submarines, the company’s CEO said this week. “[W]e continue to have some struggles with the missile tubes program,” Rex Geveden, BWX Technologies' (BWXT) chief executive, said Monday in the company’s second quarter earnings call with investors. “[W]e did experience some cost creep in that program last year and we brought in some new leadership, and they've re-baselined the program and estimated some new costs to ramp that program up.” Geveden did not quantify the effects of missile tube missteps…		 Upcoming Events

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New NRC commissioner Caputo sworn in, Crowell up next
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is one step closer to having its executive committee back at full strength, as one of the agency’s two new top regulators took her oath of office this week, a spokesperson said. Annie Caputo was sworn…
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Texas, DOE remain in holding pattern over stranded waste at WCS
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is still “considering potential enforcement action” against the Department of Energy’s nuclear cleanup branch for failure to move stranded drums of transuranic waste out of Waste Control Specialists’ facility in Andrews County, a commission…
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Final briefs filed in enviros’ interim storage lawsuit
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week submitted its last set of arguments against a coalition of anti-nuclear and other groups suing the agency over a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, court documents show. In its wrap-up brief,…
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Trial date set in lost-paycheck lawsuit filed by Y-12 workers
Workers claiming Consolidated Nuclear Security shorted a slew of employees out of a paycheck’s worth of work are taking the management and operations contractor for two major nuclear-weapons production sites to trial next summer, according to a recent scheduling notice.…
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