Vol. 5, No. 20 NNSA Kansas City Campus Bringing Some People Back to Work
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Cleanup & Remediation
Virtual Industry Briefings Scheduled for Savannah River Lab Contract
The Energy Department Office of Environmental Management has scheduled an online pre-solicitation conference and one-on-one meetings on the Savannah River National Laboratory contract for next week. The virtual conference, conducted via WebEx, is scheduled for 11 a.m. April 28. The online meetings with potential bidders are planned for April 29 and, if necessary, April 30, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Nuclear Cleanup Office Takes Lead on Newly Discovered Waste Near LANL
The Energy Department assured the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) on Thursday it would oversee remediation of recently discovered radioactive waste on former federal land near the site of a planned housing complex in Los Alamos County. Top brass for the Office of Environmental Management and the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration at the Los […]
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Budget & Policy
NRC Has Not Implemented ‘Priority’ Radiological Security Recommendations, GAO Says
The Government Accountability Office said Friday the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to implement a set of “priority” recommendations on securing radiological sources that could be weaponized. “Our April 2019 report, in combination with our previous reports on this topic, demonstrate that there are vulnerabilities in current NRC security requirements such as the risk of […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
BWXT Hires Chief Strategy Officer
BWX Technologies said Monday it has appointed Robb LeMasters as senior vice president and chief strategy officer. He is scheduled to start work on July 13. LeMasters, well under 50, was the managing director at hedge fund Blue Harbour Group, whose owner announced its closure in February. LeMasters since 2015 has served on BWXT’s Board of […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Electric Boat Gets $56M Mod for Ballistic Missile Tubes
Naval Sea Systems Command on April 10 awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat a $56 million modification to manufacture another 18 missile tubes for the U.S. Columbia-class and U.K. Dreadnaught-class future ballistic missile submarines. The work on the joint U.S.-U.K. common missile compartment program is expected to be finished by May 2028. This modification was funded via U.K. […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Honeywell Metropolis Works Plant License Renewed for 40 Years
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has renewed the license of Honeywell’s Metropolis Works uranium source conversion plant in Illinois for 40 years. The license now expires on March 24, 2060, according to an April 15 notice in the Federal Register. Metropolis Works has been largely idled since November 2017, due to an oversupply in the product […]