Vol. 6, No. 45

Plutonium Pit Production

NNSA ’22 Budget Details: SRS Pit Costs Balloon; W80 Alt for Sea-Launched Cruise Missile; B83 Sustainment Price Tag

Among the highlights of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s detailed fiscal year 2022 budget request: it will cost more than double what the agency once estimated to convert a plutonium recycling plant in South Carolina into a factory for nuclear-weapon triggers; planned air- and sea-launched cruise missiles will share a nuclear tip; next year’s costs […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Biden’s $7.6B Request Would Continue a Run of Fat Cleanup Budgets

    The nearly $7.6-billion fiscal 2022 budget request the Joe Biden administration made Friday for the Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management is larger than White House requests for nuclear cleanup made during the Donald Trump administration and, if enacted by Congress, would continue a run of beefy appropriations. In February 2020, the Trump White […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Interim Storage Makes the Cut in DOE Budget Overview

    Although details are sparse, funding to site a federal interim storage facility for the nation’s spent nuclear fuel would be included in the Department of Energy’s budget proposal for 2022 if it became law, according to the agency’s latest top-level budget summary. The Office of Nuclear Energy’s (ONE) fuel cycle program should receive funding “for […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Holtec, Entergy Finalize Sale of Indian Point

    The company set to decommission Indian Point Energy Center in New York is now the plant’s official owner, according to a press release last week. Holtec International completed its acquisition of the Buchanan, N.Y. nuclear plant from Entergy Friday, the company said Friday. Holtec subsidiary Holtec Indian Point, LLC now holds the site’s ownership and […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Candidates Vie to Replace Haaland in Tuesday’s Special Congressional Election in New Mexico

    Voters in New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District were set to decide today whether Democrat Melanie Ann Stansbury, Republican Mark Moores or one of four other candidates will succeed former U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) who was sworn in as secretary of interior on March 16. Both major party candidates are already members of the New […]

  • Budget & Policy

    This Week

    Here are some public events related to defense- and civilian-nuclear matters that the Exchange Monitor staff is tracking this week: June:  03: The Portsmouth Environmental Management Advisory Board meets at 6 p.m. E.T.

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Correction:

    A May 24 article in Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, “Nevada DOE Managers Make Plans for Transuranic Waste” should have said the Honeywell-led Mission Support and Test Services is overseeing preparation of Nevada spheres for shipment to the Idaho National Laboratory from the Nevada National Security Site. In Idaho, the transuranic waste will be processed for […]

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