Vol. 8, No. 46 Secretary of energy to testify in House today about DOE’s 2024 budget request.
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Biden budget, memo call for reduced reliance on B83 gravity bomb
Citing a national security memorandum that describes a reduced need for the B83 thermonuclear gravity bomb, the National Nuclear Administration proposed cutting funding for the weapon in its 2024 budget request. The NNSA proposed cutting $28 million from funding… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Recommissioning & Restarts
Holtec meets with NRC to strategize on path to Palisades restart
Holtec Decommissioning International this week pitched the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on restarting the shuttered Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan via a license amendment request, according to company documents posted online Monday. It was the first time… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Ex-Zahn’s Corner student with cancer sues Portsmouth contractors in federal court
A group of current and former Department of Energy contractors at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio are again targets of a federal lawsuit, this one filed by a plaintiff suffering from cancer who attended a now-shuttered middle school near the former gaseous diffusion… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Correction
An article in the March 22 Weapons Complex Morning Briefing [Hanford rattled by New Mexico statements on out-of-state waste] should have reported the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site is expected to become a big shipper to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in a few years and finish around 2050.