Vol. 4, No. 173 Senate-Confirmed Successor Unlikely at DOE Cleanup Anytime Soon
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Plutonium Pit Production
HASC Panel’s Bill Could Slow-Roll NNSA’s Planned S.C. Pit Plant
The Department of Energy would no longer have to make 80 plutonium pits a year by the end of the next decade, if legislation unveiled Monday in the Democrat-controlled House becomes law. The legislation, due for a vote Tuesday by House Armed Services strategic… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Energy Dept. Outlines Justification for Non-Compete Centrus Contract for HALEU
The Energy Department Friday published its justification for contracting a Centrus Energy subsidiary to demonstrate high-assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) production without competitive bidding. The federal government wants to deploy a 16-machine cascade at the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Holtec, SCE Still Weeks From Finishing Assessment of Canister Scare at SONGS, NRC Says
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) stared over the engineers’ shoulders of Southern California Edison and Holtec International International as they studied the effects of scratches on eight fuel canisters at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Transuranic Waste
WIPP Town Hall Meeting Scheduled This Month
The Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) will hold its next WIPP Town Hall briefing June 20 at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time at the Carlsbad, N.M., City Hall Annex on June 20. An agenda for the meeting will be released closer to the date, a city of… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex […]