Vol. 6, No. 53

Plutonium Pit Production

NNSA, Lab Official Say Congress Shouldn’t Change Legal Deadlines on Pit Production

ALEXANDRIA — Congress should not relax legal deadlines to produce plutonium pits this decade, even though the National Nuclear Security Administration has acknowledged it won’t meet at least one of them, nuclear-weapons managers here said Wednesday. “I would say no,” Michael Thompson, said here Wednesday when asked whether Congress should change the law so that […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Senate Appropriators’ EM Budget Hair Lower Than House

    The Senate Appropriations Committee approved 25-to-five on Wednesday a fiscal year 2022 spending bill for the Department of Energy and other agencies with roughly $7.7-billion for Department of Energy nuclear weapons cleanup. The committee’s plan for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM) office, which oversees cleanup of 16 Cold War and Manhattan Project nuclear sites, […]

  • Warhead & Weapons Development

    Senate Appropriators Match NNSA Budget Request, Buck House by Including All W93, Sea-Launched W80-4

    The National Nuclear Security Administration would essentially receive its 2022 budget request under a spending bill the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up Wednesday, matching the funding the full House approved last week. Unlike the House, however, Senate Appropriators approved the $72 million the Joe Biden administration sought for the planned W93 submarine launched ballistic missile […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Senate Budget Mirrors House Spending Approvals for Nuclear Energy, Interim Storage

    Senate appropriators proposed about the same funding for the Department of Energy’s nuclear energy programs, including for a proposed interim storage inquiry, during a Wednesday markup. If the Senate’s energy and water budget recommendation becomes law, it will green-light around $27.5 million in federal funds for nuclear waste disposal. The vast majority of that money, […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Senate Approps Matches House With Flat NRC Budget for ‘22

    The Senate Appropriations Committee approved all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s funding request for the upcoming fiscal year at a Wednesday markup. In a 25-5 vote Wednesday the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its version of the annual Energy and Water Development budget, which included every dime of NRC’s roughly $874 million request for fiscal 2022.  […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    DOE Spells Out Steps to Stem Rising COVID Case Count Around Nuclear Sites

    The Department of Energy is taking steps to implement White House policy to stem the tide of increasing COVID-19 infections by again ordering mask wearing indoors, giving more time off to have family members vaccinated and holding off on many in-person meetings. Effective immediately, “any DOE-hosted in-person meeting, conference, or event that will be attended […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Parsons Reduces its 2021 Earnings Guidance

    Earnings fell at Parsons, Centreville, Va., in the 2nd quarter, which the defense and infrastructure company attributed in part to its acquisition announced in June of BlackHorse Solutions, a company involved in cyber and artificial intelligence, for $203 million. Net income for the second quarter ended June 30 was $6.7 million or $0.7 per share […]

  • Stockpile Stewardship

    Samples Shipped for LANL’s Next Subcritical Plutonium Test at Nevada

    ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Materials for the third and final Nightshade subcritical plutonium test at the Nevada National Security Site have shipped out from the Los Alamos National Laboratory ahead of a shot planned for the fall, the head of the lab’s weapon’s program said here Wednesday. Nightshade C had been scheduled to fire in Nevada […]

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