Vol. 4, No. 288 Energy Dept. Investigating Portsmouth Contractor’s Radiation Protection Program
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus to Finalize Contract for New Enrichment Cascade ‘This Year,’ CEO Says
The Department of Energy expects to release this year some $35 million in funding for Centrus Energy Corp. to begin building a new uranium enrichment cascade required to produce 600 kilograms of high-assay low-enriched uranium fuel by June 1, 2020, according to… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Innovation & Infrastructure
Cray Gets $600M NNSA Contract to Build ‘El Capitan’ Exascale Computer
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded Cray Inc. a $600-million contract to build the El Capitan exascale supercomputer, which the agency wants to start crunching numbers in 2023 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Cray… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Insufficient Information Contributed to Waste-Processing Explosion, US Ecology Says
US Ecology has indicated that a customer failed to provide it with necessary information about waste that caused an explosion that killed one worker and injured eight others while being processed at the company’s its Grand View, Idaho, facility. In an executive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Vitrification & Grout
DNFSB Closes Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Safety Recommendation
The U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) has officially closed an 8-year-old recommendation that identified significant failings in the safety culture for the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) being built at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Virginia Firm Takes $95M FUSRAP Contract
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week awarded a $95 million contract for environmental remediation in the St. Louis, Mo., area under the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). HydroGeoLogic, headquartered in Reston, Va., overcame one other… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
Clarification
The story “Power Outage at Nevada Site Knocks JASPER Support Offline for Two Weeks” (Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, July 30, 2019) should have said that the Joint Actinide Shock Physics Experimental Research (JASPER) facility at the Nevada National Security… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]