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NNSA Could Take Tritium Mission Away From Savannah River Over MOX Court Case
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is considering a radical restructuring of its nuclear weapons mission at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, including moving some work to another location. Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency, said she must at least consider winding down certain operations at the Aiken, S.C., campus due to a June 7 federal court ruling that stopped the NNSA from turning the site’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility — an unfinished plutonium disposal plant — into a factory for fissile nuclear-warhead cores called plutonium pits. That is according to an internal memo obtained Tuesday by Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. In it,…		 Upcoming Events

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House, Senate Negotiators Want to Finish 2019 NDAA by July 27
The leaders of the Senate and House Armed Services committees expect by July 27 to finish final negotiations on the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, which would enable the Department of Energy to design a new low-yield nuclear warhead.…
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Fluor-BWXT’s Portsmouth Cleanup Contract Option to Expire in September
The current 30-month option period for Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth’s $3.4 billion decontamination and decommissioning contract for the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, is scheduled to expire Sept. 30. While a DOE spokesperson confirmed Tuesday the contract has not been…
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Shimkus to Lead House Delegation to Yucca Mountain
By John Stang Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) is leading a dozen U.S. House members on a tour of the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada on Saturday in hopes of bolstering his case to revive stalled plans for a nuclear waste…
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STRATCOM Commander Tours Savannah River Site
Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command and effectively customer-in-chief for the nuclear weapons maintained by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), toured the Savannah River Site in South Carolina this week. Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor sister publication…
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