Vol. 11, No. 20 Tennessee eager to work with DOE on nuclear lifecycle
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
2027 budget could double fiscal 2026 ship procurement numbers, SecNav says
Navy Secretary John Phelan on Thursday hinted the Navy’s fiscal year 2027 budget request will more than double the 17 ships funded in the fiscal 2026 defense appropriations law, with a specific focus on auxiliary and support vessels. “So I can’t talk a lot about the ‘27 budget. What I’ll say is if you look […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP commences winter maintenance outage
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. is in the midst of a winter outage that could last through mid-March, according to a site spokesperson. During the outage, receipt of transuranic (TRU) waste from various sites across the DOE complex is on hold. The spokesperson could not immediately provide Exchange […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Fluor reports lower earnings for quarter, year
Earnings fell at Fluor, Irving, Texas, during the fourth quarter of 2025, which the engineering and construction company partly attributes to a share buyback program and losing an overseas court ruling. Net earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31 were a net loss of $1.6 billion or a loss of $9.87 a share, down from […]
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Budget & Policy
DOE needs oversight plan for Office of Clean Energy Demo projects, GAO finds
Given limited staff, the Department of Energy needs a management plan for projects run through DOE’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said last week. OCED was created in 2021 to manage DOE’s clean energy, including nuclear, technology-based demonstration projects. The subagency has a framework that includes a phased project […]
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International
U.S. and IAEA make headway with Iran in Geneva talks
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi in Geneva, and progress was made on nuclear issues, according to the Iranian government’s website Monday. According to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, Grossi met with Araghchi on behalf of the United Nations nuclear […]
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Data Centers & Energy Demand
Paducah data center presentation attracts big crowd
More than 100 company and individual attendees took part in a Department of Energy session in December on development plans for an artificial intelligence data center at the Paducah Site in Kentucky, according to an online procurement notice. Amentum, Ameresco, Big Rivers Electric Cooperative, Burns & McDonnell, BWXT, Catawba, Fluor, General Matter, Geosyntec, Global Laser […]
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National Laboratories
INL, NVIDIA using AI for nuclear work
The Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and the tech powerhouse Nvidia have partnered to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate nuclear reactor development. The partnership stems from President Donald Trump administration’s Genesis Mission, according to INL’s Tuesday press release. The Genesis Mission comes from a Trump executive order in November that calls for […]