Vol. 7, No. 13

Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

TVA Proposing Bigger Tritium Loads for Watts Bar Reactors

Civilian reactors in Tennessee notionally will sharply increase their output of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons by the fall of 2024 to help the National Nuclear Security Administration produce its desired 2,800 grams of tritium annually during the government fiscal year that begins around that time, officials said Wednesday morning. If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission […]
  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    Electrorefining Glove Boxes Going in at Y-12; Radioactive Work Expected in 2023

    Consolidated Nuclear Security has nearly installed all the glove boxes for a new uranium purification process at the Y-12 National Security Complex and hot commissioning should start early next year, a spokesperson said recently. Site prime Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) put the electrorefining glove boxes and related equipment into Building 9215 last year, though installation […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Oral Arguments Planned in Paducah Services Litigation

    A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge was scheduled to hear oral arguments next month on whether Kentucky-based Swift & Staley is too large to qualify for the Department of Energy’s three-year, $160-million small business set-aside contract for Infrastructure Support Services at the Paducah Site in Kentucky. Judge Thompson Dietz planned to hear arguments Feb. […]

  • National Laboratories

    Berkeley, Sandia, LANL Collaborating on International Spent Fuel Research

    Three of the Department of Energy’s national laboratories are participating in an international survey aimed at testing the long-term effectiveness of safety systems that could be used in the storage of high-level radioactive waste, according to a press release Tuesday. Lawrence Berkeley, Sandia and Los Alamos (LANL) National Laboratories are working alongside Swiss national rad […]

  • Advanced Nuclear & SMRs

    Former NE-1 Baranwal to Join Westinghouse as CTO

    The former head of the Department of Energy’s nuclear energy office is headed to the C-Suite of Westinghouse Electric, the company announced Tuesday. Rita Baranwal, assistant secretary for DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) from July 2019 to January 2021, was appointed chief technology officer at Westinghouse, according to a press release dated Tuesday. In […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Final WIPP Figures for December, 2021 Show More Shipments Than 2020

    The final numbers for December confirm 2021 was a bounce-back year of sorts for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, which disposed of 21 more shipments of transuranic waste than during its first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., received 20 shipments […]

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