Vol. 9, No. 19 Nuclear Fuel Services gets early extension for defense-uranium downblending
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High-Level & Tank Waste
DOE moves closer to startup of second Hanford vit plant melter
The Department of Energy said Tuesday workers have installed startup heaters to warm up the second 300-ton melter for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant at the Hanford Site in Washington state. The 18 temporary startup heaters are meant to raise the operating… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Ukraine aid package with nonproliferation, uranium funds clears Senate; fate uncertain in House
The Senate on Tuesday passed a national security appropriations package that would boost the Department of Energy’s radiological safety efforts in Ukraine and seed a new commercial uranium refining industry. The bill includes $2.7 billion for DOE contracts that… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
In 2023 report, Corps cites progress on FUSRAP cleanup, including shuttered school
During fiscal 2023 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released three reports from “extensive sampling and testing” around the closed Jana Elementary School near St. Louis and the Coldwater Creek Superfund area and “no known data exists that indicates any radiological… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Bill to block tax credits for pits percolating in New Mexico legislature
A New Mexico legislative committee this month passed a bill to stop the prime contractor of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from claiming state tax credits for making nuclear-weapon cores. If signed into law the bill would go into effect on July 1 and exclude… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]