Vol. 9, No. 67

Cleanup & Remediation

Small earthquake near Hanford on Saturday

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake hit an area near the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington State on Saturday, according to federal data. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake hit about 2.5 miles south of Richland, Wash., which is itself about… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Holtec sues New York over state law blocking Indian Point discharges

    Holtec International last week sued New York over a law the state passed in 2023 that would fine anyone who discharges irradiated wastewater into the Hudson River, a court filing shows. The law constitutes “blatant infringement on the federal government’s exclusive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    House passes foreign mil aid package; has $150M for NNSA to help Ukraine

    The supplemental national security appropriations bill the House passed Saturday has about $150 million for the National Nuclear Security Administration to help monitor nuclear Ukrainian power plants occupied by invading Russians. President Joe Biden (D) has said… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Top end of pit-plant acquisition north of $35B, NNSA administrator says

    It could cost up to $37 billion to acquire the pair of plutonium pit production facilities needed to produce new nuclear weapon cores for the rest of this century, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said at a conference last week. The range,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    11 transuranic waste shipments from LANL in first half of fiscal ‘24

    The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico sent 11 shipments of transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant between October and March, the lab’s cleanup contractor said recently. The shipments totaled a little more than 32.5 cubic meters in volume,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Levin catalogs spent-fuel wish list in weekend OC Register op-ed; ‘difficult conversations’ ahead

    The “long-term policy solutions” for spent nuclear fuel “will require many difficult conversations,” Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) wrote in an op-ed published Sunday in the local Orange County Register. Levin’s district includes the San Onofre Nuclear Generating… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • News & Analysis

    This week

    Here are some events related to defense and civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. 24: Open virtual meeting, Consent Order Subcommittee and Risk Evaluation and Management Subcommittee of the Environmental Management Site-Specific… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

Get Published in ExchangeMonitor Publications