Vol. 7, No. 48 Bechtel wins new $3B WIPP prime contract from DOE
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Budget & Policy
House committee set to approve NDAA amendments Tuesday as partisan fight brews over defense spending
The House Rules Committee was set Tuesday to decide which amendments to the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, including several related to nuclear weapons, will reach the full House for debate on Wednesday. The committee was set to meet at 12:00 a.m. Eastern… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC to address Texas AG’s invocation of Supreme Court EPA ruling
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission asked a federal appeals court Monday to let its lawyers file a full response to the state of Texas’s claim that the agency’s decision to license a proposed interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in the state was nullified… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
More EM sites must mask up indoors per CDC guidance
In keeping with federal guidance on COVID-19, many Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex sites are again requiring masks indoors. These include the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, the Paducah Site in Kentucky, their joint headquarters office in Lexington, Ky. All… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Bids due soon on uranium sales to NNSA for domestic reserve
Less than a month remains for anyone interested in selling domestic uranium to the government for a congressionally directed to submit their bids to the National Nuclear Security Administration. In a 2021 spending bill, Congress appropriated $75 million to the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Oak Ridge cleanup contractor, sub chided for lax asbestos monitoring in Mouse House
The Department of Energy has issued an enforcement letter to an Amentum-Jacobs joint venture and its subcontractor GEM Technologies over “concerns with improper asbestos exposure monitoring” during cleanup at the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Mouse House. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
DOE to resume stakeholder working group for spent fuel transport, agency tells NWTRB
The Department of Energy is planning to continue this year a legally-mandated working group aimed at developing incentives for communities impacted by spent nuclear fuel transportation efforts, the agency told the government’s independent nuclear waste technical… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]