Vol. 8, No. 139 Hanford treatment plant simulates waste solidification, makes and packs glass cylinder
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Contracts & Procurement
Businesses merging with Amentum credited with over one-third of Jacobs revenue
Jacobs’ government contracting and cybersecurity businesses, which are expected to merge with Virginia-based Amentum in 2024, account for more than a third of the revenue at Jacobs, according to material released following the Nov. 21 consolidation announcement. Depending on the way it’s counted, Critical Mission Solutions with the cyber and intelligence business line were responsible […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Holtec planning to build two small reactors at Palisades site
Holtec International on Monday announced it plans to file construction permits in 2026 to build a pair of small modular reactors at the site of the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Generating Station, which the company hopes to restart in 2025. Notionally to be commissioned as soon as 2030, the two SMR-300 reactors are “likely to be […]
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Non-Proliferation
Iranian-born academic sues; was fired after allegedly letting Iranian student access NNSA software
An Iranian-born ex-professor, fired from the University of Toledo in Ohio for allegedly allowing an Iranian citizen to access software owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration, sued the school for wrongful termination, alleging multiple counts of discrimination. E. Ishmael Parsai, a 69 year-old, nationalized U.S. citizen born in Iran, sued the university in November […]
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International
All external power temporarily cut to Ukraine’s embattled nuclear plant
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant lost all off-site power overnight Dec. 3 and temporarily relied on emergency diesel generators for the electricity needed to cool its reactors, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The main power line – the only remaining main power line at the ZNPP compared to the four it had before […]