Vol. 7, No. 13 Ninth Advanced Reactors Summit begins in Idaho
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
New funding for NuScale
NuScale Power, a developer of small modular reactors, has received a new $10 million injection of cash. That increases the amount of new investments in NuScale up to $453 million in the past few months. The new money comes from an eight-year-old San Francisco-based… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Budget & Policy
Big funding hike sought to help DNFSB fill staffing gaps
The Joe Biden administration last week requested a budget of $41 million for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board in fiscal 2023, an increase of $5 million over $36 million from the 2022 omnibus passed in early March. That 2023 request is about a 14% year-over-year… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Vax policy figures into Mid-America talks, says Steelworkers official
With COVID-19 illnesses declining nationally, a United Steelworkers officer at the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio wants Mid-America Conversion Services to reconsider an earlier decision to fire a handful of longtime employees who refused vaccination. United… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Budget & Policy
CORRECTION
The story “Fed review of RLUOB recategorization in May” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, March 15, 20222] should have said the Radiological Laboratory/Utility/Office Building can legally accept just under 40 grams of plutonium at once.