Vol. 8, No. 51 DOE plans to hire WCS to move Los Alamos TRU to above-ground storage
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
HASC vice chair says nuclear sea-launched cruise missile ‘incredibly important’
The House version of the 2024 defense authorization act includes funding to develop a nuclear-tipped seal-launched cruise missile, and the program will make it into law despite the White House’s desire to kill it, according to Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.). Wittman, who is vice chair of the House Armed Services Committee, chair of the tactical […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Large, bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers ask NRC to ease license rules for advanced reactors
Sixty four lawmakers called out what they said were six problems with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s draft rule for licensing advanced reactors and, in a July 14 letter, asked for a fix. Safety requirements in the NRC’s proposed rule are so strict that they will prevent commission staff from licensing new reactor designs quickly, said […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth and Paducah ops award could be around the corner, sources say
With last week’s award of the Department of Energy’s $5.87-billion environmental remediation contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio to an Amentum-led team, two industry sources expect a companion contract is imminent for operations of that property as well as the Paducah Site in Kentucky. The sources, executives who work for different government contractors, also […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth Tech services RFI comments due Aug. 3
Responses to the Department of Energy’s request for information on technical support services for former gaseous diffusion plants in Kentucky and Ohio are due by Aug. 3, the agency said last Thursday. DOE formally issued the request for information notice online July 13 for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, the Paducah Site in Kentucky and […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Correction
The story “HII, Babcock International sign nuclear decommissioning, construction MOU” [Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, July, 17, 2023] should have that Huntington Ingalls Industries maintains an ownership stake in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the management and operations contractor for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C.