Subscribe  /  advertise  /  contact
FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Safety Board Details Fears of Lost Access to Nuke Weapons Sites
WASHINGTON — The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is not convinced, despite statements from the deputy secretary of energy here this week, that the Department of Energy intends to preserve the independent federal nuclear-watchdog’s unfettered access to U.S. nuclear-weapon sites. Energy Department officials testified Tuesday before the four-member board about an order published in May concerning the agency’s interactions with the DNFSB.  The order "does not hinder cooperation with the DNFSB or prevent the DNFSB from providing independent analysis, advice and recommendations to either the Secretary [of Energy] or others in the Department," Dan Brouillette, deputy secretary of energy, said in prepared remarks at Tuesday's hearing. The DOE No. 2…		 Upcoming Events

Nuclear Deterrence Summit 2019
February 12-14, 2019
Arlington, VA

WM Symposia 2019
March 3-7, 2019
Phoenix, AZ

Decommissioning Strategy Forum 2019
June 17-18, 2019
Nashville, TN
Weapons Complex Morning Briefing
West Valley Reauthorization Bill Will Cost $345M Through 2023, CBO Says
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates a House of Representatives bill to reauthorize appropriations for ongoing environmental remediation at the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state would cost $345 million from fiscal 2019 through 2023. The figure is…
Weapons Complex Monitor
Collapse of Hanford Waste Tunnel Could be More Severe Than Anticipated, Contractor Says
The failure of the second tunnel storing radioactive waste from the Hanford Site’s PUREX processing plant could be more severe than estimated a year ago, according to Department of Energy cleanup contractor CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. Dan Wood, chief…
Featured Jobs

Sr Staff Technical Program Manager - Oracle ERP
General Electric – Wilmington

GE Power Coatings Manufacturing Intern - Summer 2019
General Electric – Greenville

Electrical Engineer
General Electric – Twinsburg

Junior Officer Leadership Program - GE Aviation
General Electric – Cincinnati
 
RadWaste Monitor
Nevada Takes NRC Commissioner to Court Over Yucca Mountain
The state of Nevada on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to block Nuclear Regulatory Commission member David Wright from participating in any licensing decision for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in the state. The filing in the…
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Weapons Council Wants South Carolina Pit Progress By Mid-2019
The Department of Energy will not be able to deliver 80 new nuclear-warhead cores per year in 2030 unless it starts building new plutonium processing facilities in South Carolina by the middle of 2019, the head of the Nuclear Weapons…
©2018 Access Intelligence, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without expressed written permission of Access Intelligence, LLC is prohibited. ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums is a registered trademark of Access Intelligence, LLC.