Vol. 8, No. 12

Stockpile Stewardship

Delays mount for underground lab upgrades seen as critical for new Navy nuke

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Upgrades to a nuclear-weapon test facility in Nevada are falling further behind schedule, government officials and weapon-site managers said here Wednesday. Officially called Enhanced Capability for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE), the upgrades involve expanding the Nevada National Security Site’s U1a underground complex and installing a sophisticated new x-ray camera to measure explosive plutonium […]
  • Stockpile Stewardship

    Livermore’s next subcritical test coming this year

    ALEXANDRIA, VA — The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was set to fire the first test in its Nimble series of subcritical experiments in the late summer, a senior lab official said here Wednesday. “The first one [called Nob Hill] is scheduled for August of this year, the next one [Twin Peaks] will be hopefully a […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    NRC greenlights Church Rock waste disposal plan

    The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a plan to dispose of radioactive waste from the site of a 1979 mine spill in New Mexico, the agency announced Thursday. NRC Wednesday greenlit a license amendment for the shuttered United Nuclear Corporation Church Rock site, allowing a General Electric-led cleanup crew to transfer nearly a million tons of […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Mercury treatment plant contractor extended into May

    The joint venture building the delayed Outfall 200 Mercury Treatment Facility at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee was extended into May and could still be extended much longer, an agency spokesperson said this week. The most recent major contract roundup dated Feb. 9 for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management shows the […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NV lawmakers reintroduce Yucca-killing consent-based siting legislation

    Two members of Nevada’s congressional delegation on Tuesday reintroduced a bill that, if made law, would spell the final end of the proposed Yucca Mountain permanent nuclear waste repository. The Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act, unveiled in a Tuesday press release by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev), “will ensure that […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Parsons earnings nearly flat in Q4 but rise for 2022

    Earnings dipped slightly at Parsons Corp., Centreville, Va., in the fourth quarter but were up for 2022 as a whole, which the government defense and infrastructure contractor attributed during a Wednesday conference call to organic growth.  Net earnings for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31 were $28 million, or $0.25 a share, down slightly from […]

  • National Laboratories

    Los Alamos shivers under winter weather

    Today is expected to be another cold, wintry one around the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico with a high temperature of 26 degrees Fahrenheit, but with a wind chill factor below zero, according to the National Weather Service. The laboratory suspended most on-site normal operations Wednesday due to snowy conditions, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Publication Notice

    Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will not be published on Monday in observance of the Presidents Day holiday. Look for the next issue in your inbox on Tuesday, Feb. 21 2023.

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