Vol. 1, No. 39

Plutonium Pit Production

After Drama-Filled Markup, House Committee Quietly Advances 2017 DOE Budget to Floor

The House Appropriations Committee late Tuesday afternoon brought Congress one step closer to a bicameral confrontation over whether to keep the mostly abandoned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal facility in Nevada on life support, and how strongly to protect the Mixed-Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility now under construction at Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site […]
  • Plutonium Pit Production

    HASC Subcommittee Mark Requires Continuation of MOX Construction

    The House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee is proposing a requirement for the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility continue unless the secretary of energy reports to Congress on activities meant to address major points of contention on the project. According to the subcommittee’s […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Hanford Tank Waste Levels Between Shells Stable

    The level of radioactive waste in the space between the shells of Hanford Site double-shell Tank AY-102 remained stable Tuesday as Washington River Protection Solutions continued to prepare to pump the waste back into the tank. As waste was being retrieved from the tank Sunday the space between the shells, called the annulus, filled with […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP Officials Can Do More to Prevent Repeat of 2014 Rad Leak: DNFSB

    The Energy Department and its contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico could do more to ensure their new safety procedures prevent a repeat of a 2014 radiation release blamed on an improperly packaged drum of contaminated waste, according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). “The Department of Energy […]

  • National Laboratories

    NNSA to Conduct Sandia Site Tour for Potential M&O Bidders

    The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) next week will offer a site tour of the Sandia National Laboratories site in Albuquerque, N.M., for potential bidders for the lab’s follow-on management and operations contract competition. The April 27 site tour may be followed by one-on-one meetings on April 28 or 29 to give potential bidders the […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Strategic Deterrent Coalition to Host Symposium in June

    The nonprofit Strategic Deterrent Coalition has scheduled its annual symposium for June 20-21 on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, N.M. The organization, which says “America must avoid the tendency to understate the complexity of the specialized equipment, facilities, personnel, knowledge and expertise” necessary to sustain the U.S. nuclear deterrent, will […]

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