Vol. 5, No. 20

Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

No Confirmed COVID-19 Cases to Date at STRATCOM

There are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 among U.S. nuclear forces, and fewer than 50 people supporting that interservice group are self-quarantining because of possible exposure during the global pandemic, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said Tuesday. “[W]e have zero people in STRATCOM headquarters or in the components that have tested positive, so I […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    3 Hanford Employees Undergo COVID-19 Testing

    Three employees at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state are undergoing testing for novel coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19), according to updates posted Tuesday on an employee advisory website. It was not clear from the post if the three included the employee of Hanford services contractor Mission Support Alliance who last Thursday was scheduled […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Nevada, NNSA Could Settle Plutonium Lawsuit by End of March

    Nevada and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are attempting to resolve the state’s federal lawsuit seeking the immediate removal of 500 kilograms of weapon-usable plutonium from the Nevada National Security Site, court papers filed Tuesday show. To comply with a court order in a separate federal lawsuit, the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Sampling Finally Ready to Commence Near Portsmouth School

    Almost a year after a middle school outside the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio went on summer break early due to concern over levels of radioactive contaminants on campus, an independent contractor will start on-site air and soil sampling. The project is scheduled to start in April, the top official at the DOE Office of […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Los Alamos County Wants Feds to Deal With Newly Uncovered Radioactive Waste

    Los Alamos County, N.M., is calling on the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to take responsibility for remediation of radioactive waste discovered last month off the property of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Debris contaminated by uranium and plutonium was discovered Feb. 14 by a county contractor doing sewer line excavation for a planned low-income […]

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