Vol. 10, No. 105

Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

Hegseth says supports SLCM ‘as of right now’ at Senate Armed Services hearing

WASHINGTON — Peter Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s (R) intended nominee for Secretary of Defense, was questioned Tuesday by a Senate committee about his fitness for the role, including his knowledge of the U.S. nuclear weapons enterprise. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), whose state houses the silos for the ground-based strategic deterrent, asked whether Hegseth, a former […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    Annual maintenance outage keeps WIPP offline into March

    The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., has commenced its annual maintenance outage and won’t be receiving more shipments of transuranic waste until mid-March, the Department of Energy said Tuesday. Two of the bigger work chores scheduled for the outage include installation of final duct work for the new Safety Significant Confinement Ventilation System […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP prime expected to receive keys to new ventilation system

    After a delay, the subcontractor that built a new ventilation system at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico was expected to turn over the keys to the project to the prime contractor last month, according to a federal update. A Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNESB) staff report on […]

  • Recommissioning & Restarts

    Summer approval for Palisades restart ‘demanding,’ NRC staff say

    Approving the restart of a Michigan nuclear plant by August will be “demanding,” federal regulators said Tuesday, and there is more work ahead than the plant’s owner may realize. That was the takeaway from senior Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff during their hybrid public meeting at commission headquarters in Rockville, Md., with Holtec International, owner of […]

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