Vol. 9, No. 46

Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

STRATCOM commander says uploading hedge of ICBMs would not ‘perturb’ NNSA

OMAHA — Uploading land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles would not push the National Nuclear Security Administration past its limits, the head of the U.S. Strategic Command told the Exchange Monitor here Tuesday. “We’ve been actually studying that for a couple of years now to see if that is something that would actually perturb what the NNSA […]
  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Don’t ‘break the NNSA’ with unrealistic expectations, Pentagon official says

    OMAHA — The U.S. “cannot add additional stress” to the National Nuclear Security Administration to up its strategic capabilities, a former Department of Defense official said at a strategic command symposium in Omaha, Neb. Tuesday. “We have a nuclear enterprise that is sized for a post Cold War era,” Vipin Narang, former Department of Defense […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    GAO, others speak to DNFSB hearing about old infrastructure

    Collecting more reliable information on the condition of decades-old facilities around the nuclear weapons complex and sharing the data with Congress could improve the Department of Energy’s management of its aging infrastructure, a federal panel heard Wednesday. Government auditors and executives from the American Nuclear Society, NASA, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and U.S. Army Corps […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Mystery odor prompts Hanford 222-S lab staff to take cover

    The Department of Energy and its contractor in charge of the Hanford’s Site’s 222-S Laboratory in Washington state have not determined the source of a mysterious odor that prompted workers to take cover Monday, according to a DOE spokesperson. Around 11 a.m. Pacific Time Monday, workers at the laboratory and its support facilities, were told […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Nebraska study identifies 16 potential nuclear power sites

    The Nebraska Public Power District, which owns the 800-megawatt Cooper nuclear plant, finished its first phase of research last week into potential new sites for advanced modular reactors.  Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) and the state’s Department of Economic Development identified 16 potential sites for small modular reactors. That is according to a study issued […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    UCOR removes lower vessel from Oak Ridge Research Reactor

    The Department of Energy’s environmental prime at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee has removed the lower reactor vessel from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Building 3042, the department said Tuesday. The facility is also known as the Oak Ridge Research Reactor, which was built in the mid-1950s and used for isotope production before Oak Ridge […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Transformer fire extinguished at Georgia Power nuclear plant

    A transformer fire was put out Tuesday afternoon at the Vogtle nuclear complex in Waynesboro, Ga., Southern Co. utility Georgia Power said in a news release, saying the incident did not threaten public safety. The alert was declared around noon Tuesday, which prompted notification of the both state agencies and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission […]

  • News & Analysis

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    Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will be published on Tuesday and Thursday only during the weeks of Aug. 12, 2024 and Aug. 19, 2024, as part of the Exchange Monitor’s annual August recess.

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