Vol. 6, No. 14 WIPP Handles 20 Shipments in January
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
High Dose at Pantex Attributed to Lost Dosimeter
A building that handles high explosives at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, briefly shut down earlier this month after a worker’s dosimeter showed up with an unusually high dose — after it was “inadvertently lost” in the facility by its wearer, a spokesperson for the plant said Tuesday. “It is believed that the employee’s […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
With Budget Season Drawing Near, Northrop Grumman Touts GBSD Milestone
Northrop Grumman “successfully conducted its first major design review” for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent engineering and manufacturing development baseline last November, the company announced Tuesday. Northrop touted the milestone as the new Joe Biden administration prepares its first federal budget request and Congress continues its work confirming Biden’s nominees to top Pentagon posts. A […]
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Budget & Policy
Fischer Remains in Leadership Role on SASC Strategic Forces
The Senate Armed Services strategic forces committee will retain some of its nuclear backbone in the 117th Congress with Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), who has a major nuclear constituency in the form of the Triad’s land-based leg, retaining her leadership role. That’s less nuclear leadership than the panel, which writes policy for nuclear forces and […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
More Petitions to Reverse NRC’s Decisions on Interim Storage Site
A major environmental group asked a judge to force the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reconsider a basket of objections to the licensing of an interim storage site, including one the agency initially acted on, according to court filings last week. Sierra Club filed a petition Feb. 9 in D.C.’s Ninth Circuit court to reopen nine […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Yucca Mountain Planning Expenses Under $8,000 in December, NRC Chair Says
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission spent under $8,000 in December on planning activities for the moribund Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository, the agency’s chairman told the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a letter last week. In a letter dated Feb. 8, NRC chair Christopher Hanson told Energy and Commerce head Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) that […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Wash. State Modifying Hanford Permit for Double-Shell Tank Lines
The Washington Department of Ecology is taking public comment through March 25 on proposed modifications to the state’s permit for key equipment used to help control liquid waste volume in underground tanks at the Department of Energy’s Hanford site. The original transfer lines that connect double-shell tanks holding radioactive waste to the 242-A Evaporator flunked […]
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Contracts & Procurement
CORRECTION
A story in the Feb. 09, 2021 issue of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing (“Jacobs’ Profits Edge Up in Q1; Revenue Stable”) should have said that Jacobs’ profits increased in the first quarter of 2021 on both an adjusted and unadjusted basis. The story was also updated with the correct earnings figures for each period.