Vol. 9, No. 22

Naval Nuclear Propulsion

HII appoints Lempke to shepherd AUKUS efforts down under

Michael Lempke is now leading Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Australia business, where he will shepherd the shipbuilder and nuclear-site manager’s portion of the tripartite AUKUS agreement between the U.S., U.K. and Australia. Lempke, most recently president of the company’s Nuclear and Environmental Services group, took the post on Jan.1, Huntington Ingalls (HII) said in a statement […]
  • Budget & Policy

    House and Senate approve new funding bill, avert shutdown; speaker opposed to omnibus

    Congress on Thursday approved a spending bill to keep agencies including the Department of Energy open until March 1, according to a schedule posted by the Democrat majority. The Senate passed the bill 77-to-18 on Tuesday afternoon. The House followed quickly after, approving the month-and-a-half stopgap budget 314-to-108.  The bill now goes to President Joe […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Northrop Grumman tests Sentinel stage-two solid rocket motor

    Northrop Grumman has conducted a live, static-fire test of a stage-two solid rocket motor for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile at the Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tullahoma, Tenn., the company announced Jan. 16. Northrop is the Air Force’s Sentinel prime contractor and is responsible for building the solid rocket motor for […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Hanford workers sent home early; Y-12 misses another day

    Wintry weather continues to bedevil parts of the Department of Energy weapons complex in Washington state and Tennessee. Most workers were sent home Wednesday morning from DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington due to freezing rain and an overnight swing shift was canceled, according to the agency. Regular work hours resumed Thursday although drivers were advised […]

  • Innovation & Infrastructure

    Tribes, DOE, Air Force weigh in on clean energy projects at Nevada site

    Use of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site for carbon-free energy will not include small modular reactors, a local manager for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, told a federal advisory panel Wednesday. “Small modular reactors are not an option” for the Nevada site, “David Bowman, manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    UT Battelle says vax objectors suffered no harm, asks court to toss lawsuit

    The prime contractor of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory wants a federal judge to dismiss a long-running lawsuit by two employees, a married couple, who the contractor said balked at getting COVID-19 vaccines but suffered no real damages. The motion for summary judgment and supporting materials were filed by the management joint […]

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