Vol. 6, No. 81 Battelle Team Takes the Reins at Savannah River National Lab
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
DNFSB Wants Autumn Update From DOE Update About Pantex Safety Culture; Cites Impending Site-Ops Transition
The federal government’s independent nuclear health and safety watchdog wants to know what the National Nuclear Security Administration is doing to address perceived safety culture issues at the country’s central nuclear-weapons maintenance facility. After a number of technical safety requirement violations in 2019, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) “received multiple concerns from Pantex […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
F35-A Nuke Cert Inches Rightward
It may take almost a year longer than recently expected to fully certify the F-35A to internally carry one or two B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs, but the head of the service’s Nuclear Weapons Center said the nuclear end of things isn’t what’s pacing the process. “The timing right now I think to get to full […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth Plaintiffs Urge Fed Court to Reject Contractors’ Statute of Limitations Defense
A federal lawsuit brought against current and former Department of Energy contractors at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio is timely because it was filed soon after the public learned of radioactive contamination at a public school outside the fence, plaintiffs said in a filing last week. Ursula McGlone and fellow plaintiffs argue in a June […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NM Court Can’t Rule on Interim Storage Challenge, NRC Says
The state of New Mexico is pursuing its lawsuit over a proposed interim storage site for spent nuclear fuel in the wrong venue, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission argued in a recent court filing. Since New Mexico attorney general Hector Balderas’s March suit in the state’s district court cited a violation of the Atomic Energy Act […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Pending Final Ruling, CA Judge Tosses Enviro Petition to Halt SONGS Decommissioning
After a recent hearing, a state court tentatively denied an environmental group’s petition to hit the brakes on decommissioning a nuclear power plant in southern California, according to a court filing. The California Coastal Commission didn’t violate state environmental law or its own regulations when it gave a permit to Southern California Edison (SCE) to […]