Vol. 6, No. 20

Budget & Policy

Senate Set to Vote on Biden’s Secretary of Energy Nominee

The Senate has set up a vote this week on Jennifer Granholm’s nomination to be secretary of energy, following a procedural step on Monday. Around 4 p.m. Eastern time, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D) filed cloture on Granholm’s nomination, effectively signalling the start of a brief period of debate that typically lasts no longer […]
  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    BWXT Closes Out 2020 With Increase in Quarterly, Annual Revenue

    BWX Technologies, the Lynchburg, Va.-based nuclear contractor for the Department of Energy and the Pentagon, on Monday posted a record $557 million in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020, up 11% from the $501 million in the 2019 period. In addition, BWXT’s net income for the fourth quarter was $65.7 million, or $0.69 per […]

  • Defense Low-Level Waste

    Nevada, Feds Drafting Settlement Over Mislabeled Waste Shipments

    The Department of Energy and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection are hammering out some type of legal settlement over shipments of mislabeled radioactive waste sent from the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee to the Nevada National Security Site, according to minutes of an advisory committee meeting posted online. “Progress has been made on […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    GBSD Flight Tests Scheduled to Start in FY 2024

    Flight tests for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent missile, the planned successor to the nuclear-tipped Minuteman III, are scheduled to start in fiscal year 2024, according to a Pentagon environmental review of the new weapons. The service proposes four Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) flight tests from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in fiscal […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    VT Citizens’ Decom Panel to Advise State, Feds on Radwaste Disposal, Storage by Fall

    A new citizens’ committee in Vermont plans to provide recommendations on reactor decommissioning and nuclear waste storage to the state and federal government by fall, the group said Monday in a public meeting. The Federal Waste Nuclear Policy Committee, a subdivision of Vermont’s Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel (NDCAP), met Monday to solicit public comments […]

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