Vol. 9, No. 28

Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

Pantex plant temporarily halts operations, evacuates personnel, due to nearby wildfires

Operations at the National Nuclear Security’s Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, were suspended Tuesday evening because of nearby wildfires, but workers were recalled for Wednesday’s shifts. Several large wildfires are burning north of Amarillo, where the NNSA’s nuclear weapons assembly-and-disassembly hub is located. They include the Smokehouse Creek Fire, which has burned half a million […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    BWXT earnings rise in 2023, fourth quarter; Hanford award a ‘wild card’

    Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., for 2023, which the maker of nuclear naval reactors and manager of nuclear weapons sites attributed Tuesday mostly to favorable adjustments on government contracts. For the year, net earnings were $246.3 million,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Reindustrialization & Redevelopment

    DOE issues information request for clean energy developers at WIPP

    The Department of Energy is starting to shop for developers of carbon-free electricity projects on land at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., the agency announced Tuesday. The request for information notice was published online in the federal… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    DOE solicits bids for Portsmouth/Paducah tech support services

    As signaled, the Department of Energy’s final solicitation for a new Technical Support Services contract at the Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office was published Tuesday. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management procurement office  said in mid-February that… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this page. […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Hawley urges Congress to extend benefits to victims of nuclear contamination

    U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) this week imposed fellow lawmakers to renew a program to compensate victims of Manhattan Project-era radiation exposure.  In a letter dated Feb. 26, Hawley asked his Senate colleagues to reauthorize the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which he said is “critical funding,” without which citizens exposed to radioactive materials during […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    Indiana plans application this spring to become NRC agreement state

    Indiana in April planned to start the process of taking over regulation of some radioactive materials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to a letter the commission posted online Tuesday. The state planned to submit a draft application around April… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    CORRECTION

    The story “DOE, N3B to focus on stormwater runoff at Wednesday session” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, February 26, 2024] should have said that the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Individual Permit for Los Alamos is not tied to prior litigation by Amigos Bravos.

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