Vol. 6, No. 17

Budget & Policy

Deputy DOE Nomination Lands in Senate

President Joe Biden’s nomination of David Turk to be the deputy secretary of energy was formally sent to the Senate late Thursday and referred to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The Senate was not in session Monday due to the Presidents Day holiday and the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee had not […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    New Mexico Hearing on WIPP Shaft Set for May

    The New Mexico Environment Department plans consider the Department of Energy’s plan to sink a new utility shaft at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in a Zoom hearing on May 17, an environmental activist told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing. The first day of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    NJ Judge Signs Settlement Between Holtec and Lacey Township Over Oyster Creek

    A New Jersey district court judge signed a settlement Feb. 9 ending a legal feud between Holtec International and Lacey Township, N.J., over fuel from the Oyster Creek Generating Station, according to court papers. Judge Michael A. Shipp signed the order, setting the stage for Holtec to move forward with the decommissioning of Oyster Creek, […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    April Showers May Bring Pit Factory Milestones at LANL, SRS

    By April, both of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s next-generation plutonium-pit factories should reach the critical decision 1 milestone that solidifies the long-conceptualized designs of the facilities intended to manufacture new nuclear-weapon cores for most of this century. The semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency is planning the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project at the Los […]

  • Warhead & Weapons Development

    Enviro Groups Drop Effort to End UPF Construction, Plan No Encore

    A Tennessee environmental group is not planning to sue the National Nuclear Security Administration again over the Uranium Processing Facility, despite reserving the right to do so in a recent court filing. “[W]e have no plans at the current time to file additional litigation,” Ralph Hutchison,  coordinator of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, wrote […]

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