Vol. 7, No. 41 Diablo Canyon ‘full speed ahead’ on decommissioning despite Newsom’s pleas, exec says
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Budget & Policy
Nuclear Weapons Council changes among early published details of House’s fiscal ‘23 NDAA
Legislation unveiled Tuesday would put the deputy secretary of defense on the Nuclear Weapons Council once a year and attempt to put the Pentagon on the hook for some risk management in the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons enterprise. The proposal by the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
GAO would examine quality assurance at DOE cleanup office under subcommittee NDAA plan
A House Armed Services Committee panel wants the Government Accountability Office to scrutinize quality assurance steps taken by the Depart of Energy’s $7.6-billion nuclear cleanup office, according to a House subcommittee draft of the National Defense Authorization… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Judge won’t let DOE boot Swift & Staley out of Paducah in March ‘23
U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Thompson Dietz appears unlikely to set an end date for Swift & Staley’s tenure as landlord of the Department of Energy’s Paducah Site in Kentucky, based on an online court filing last week. The June 2 decision, filed under… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Senate committee to consider Biden’s NRC commissioner nominees
The White House’s picks to fill out the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were scheduled to appear Wednesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the committee announced. The confirmation hearing for Annie Caputo and Bradley Crowell, who the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Biden signs bill extending compensation for rad-sickened downwinders, test participants
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a two-year extension of a law providing financial compensation to certain people sickened by radioactivity from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Extension Act of 2022 is a clean,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Exchange Monitor’s RadWaste Summit starts today
The Exchange Monitor’s annual RadWaste Summit was set to begin at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time, 11:30 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday in Summerlin, Nevada. The two-day event features detailed discussions of federal nuclear-waste cleanups across the old nuclear-weapons… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]