Vol. 9, No. 131

Budget & Policy

Senate committee to unveil DOE budget proposal this week

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday planned to vote on its version of the Department of Energy’s fiscal year 2025 appropriations bill, the committee announced. The bill, which funds other agencies, is one of five pieces of legislation scheduled for debate and a vote in a marathon session that was to begin at 9:30 a.m. […]
  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Declassified NNSA report shows a few more weapons in stockpile

    The National Nuclear Security Administration released a report last week that said the U.S. nuclear stockpile had 3,748 warheads as of September 2023. Information on the nuclear weapons stockpile was last released and updated in October 2021, when the stockpile had 3,713 warheads. The number of nuclear warheads is down 88% from its peak in […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Two VPs at Leidos-led Hanford contractor call it a career

    Two vice presidents at a Leidos-led joint venture in charge of overseeing workaday operations at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site are retiring. In a post last week on LinkedIn, Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) said two executives, each with more than 35 years of experience at the former plutonium production site, are retiring.  Darci […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Washington Ecology to take comments on vapor control research technology

    The Washington state Department of Ecology plans to start taking public comment later this summer on a research and development permit application for a technology to reduce hazardous tank waste vapors at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site. On Friday the state agency emailed out a 30-day notice of public comment on a Phase 3 […]

  • International

    State Department says ‘long way’ from negotiating nukes with new Iranian president

    A State Department spokesperson said in a press briefing last week that Iran must comply with International Atomic Energy Agency rules again to re-enter nuclear talks with the U.S. The spokesperson was responding to a reporter’s question July 23 about comments on entering nuclear talks with Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian, a self-identified “reformist” […]

  • News & Analysis

    This week

    Here are some events related to civilian nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking this week. July 29: Hybrid meeting:  The Citizens Advisory Board for the Savannah River Site kicks off a two-day hybrid meeting starting at 1 p.m. Eastern Time from the North Augusta Municipal Building, 100 Georgia Avenue, North Augusta, South Carolina […]

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