Vol. 6, No. 26 BWXT Chief Hopes for Bigger Hanford Payoff Eventually
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Contracts & Procurement
SOC Challenges DOE Contract Award
SOC, a Day & Zimmermann security company, this week protested the Department of Energy’s recently-announced award of a $1-billion Savannah River Site security services award to a Securitas-led team. The bid protest, dated Monday Feb. 22, matched the DOE solicitation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
U.S. Modernization ‘Weakest’ Form of Modernization, Armed Services Dem Says
U.S. nuclear modernization is nothing like Russian or Chinese nuclear modernization, Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), chair of the subcommittee that writes the first draft of the annual military policy bill for defense-nuclear programs, said Tuesday in a hearing. “When… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Contracts & Procurement
After Small Biz Size Protest, DOE Plans to Extend Existing Swift & Staley Contract at Paducah
The Department of Energy plans to extend Swift & Staley’s infrastructure services contract at the Paducah Site in Kentucky for up to a year after a protest derailed plans to award the company a follow-on contract for the work. The DOE’s Portsmouth/Paducah… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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International
Last-Minute ‘Technical Understanding’ With Iran Will Prevent Records Gap, U.N. Nuke Agency Says
A last-minute technical understanding with Iran over the weekend will preserve international record keeping about the country’s controversial nuclear program over the next three months, but little else, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said in a webcast… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Watchdogs Want More Time to Contest Palisades, Big Rock Point License Transfers
A coalition of watchdog groups asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a two-month extension on today’s filing deadline for objections to the sale of two nuclear plants in Michigan. According to a filing provided to Weapons Complex Morning Briefing by nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Advanced Nuclear Fuel Could be Reprocessed or Converted for Storage, Reactor Companies Say at NAS Committee Meeting
Advanced nuclear technologies could make use of innovative strategies like steam conversion and reprocessing to dispose of spent fuel, according to reactor developers speaking at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee meeting. At a… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]