Vol. 6, No. 17

Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

Watts Bar 2 Tritium Production Less Than Expected in 2021; Reactor Has ‘Degraded Steam Generator’

The Tennessee Valley Authority’s Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor, which began producing tritium for nuclear weapons on Nov. 19, will irradiate a bit more than half as many tritium-producing rods as hoped in fiscal year 2021, the National Nuclear Security Administration… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
  • Budget & Policy

    House E&C Leaders Unveil Climate Bill Designating Nuclear as “Clean Energy Project”

    Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled a proposed climate bill Tuesday that would classify nuclear energy as a “clean energy project.” The CLEAN Energy Act, introduced by committee chairman Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) alongside Reps. Paul… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Status Conference Set in March Suit Against Portsmouth Contractors

    A federal magistrate judge in Ohio will hold a preliminary pre-trial conference by telephone March 25 in a lawsuit filed in September against current and former contractors for the Department of Energy’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The corporate defendants in the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Skelton Joins DOE as Senior Adviser

    Karen Skelton has been named a senior adviser to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, DOE announced Wednesday in a press release. Skelton comes to the Joe Biden administration from California, where she spent the last decade as the CEO and founder of Skelton Strategies,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    High Court Declines to Hear Case on Los Alamos Water Permit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition to hear a challenge brought by New Mexico-based Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety over a Clean Water Act permit at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The high court’s denial of certiorari,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]

  • Budget & Policy

    CORRECTION

    The story “Nuclear Fuel Services Gets $57M NNSA Contract to Prep for Weapons Uranium Work in Tennessee” (Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, March 2, 2021) should have said that Y-12’s Building 9212 will purify uranium until 2023 and possibly convert… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]

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