Vol. 7, No. 56

Plutonium Pit Production

Congress should ‘move forward’ with NNSA’s plan for plutonium pits, Armed Services chair says

The National Nuclear Security Administration has not won Rep. Adam Smith’s (D-Wash.) unconditional trust, but it has convinced him to authorize the agency’s plan to produce plutonium pits in two states, the House Armed Services chair told reporters Wednesday. “Yes,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    WIPP waste hauler deal extended through July

    While working on a new follow-on contract for haulage of defense-related transuranic waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., the Department of Energy has moved to keep incumbent CAST Specialty Transportation in place a little longer. The Carlsbad… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    NWPA update for interim storage ‘could take years,’ DOE acting spent fuel chief says

    It might be years before there is any legal way for the Department of Energy to build a federally operated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel before first building a permanent repository, the agency’s acting head of nuclear waste management said… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]

  • Decommissioning

    Feinstein flips on Diablo Canyon closure

    California’s senior senator announced in an op-ed Wednesday that she had changed her mind about the closure of the state’s last operating nuclear power plant and now supports keeping the facility online as a source of carbon-free power. With climate change… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Moab tailings cleanup enters home stretch, DOE officials tell NRC

    The Department of Energy expects priority work at the Moab uranium tailings site in Utah to be largely done within four years, officials with DOE’s Office of Environmental Management told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during a virtual briefing Wednesday. “We… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]

  • National Laboratories

    GAO finds that Los Alamos safety culture ‘needs improvement,’ according to NNSA

    Triad National Security has made the Los Alamos National Laboratory a little safer since taking over as the prime contractor in 2018, but the National Nuclear Security Administration believes there is more work to do, according to a new Government Accountability… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

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