Vol. 8, No. 31 Senators still favor nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile that was zeroed out in Biden budget
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE suspending water injection to contain Los Alamos hexavalent chromium
The Department of Energy will temporarily suspend some work to contain underground hexavalent chromium contamination at the Los Alamos National Laboratory while talks continue with New Mexico officials over the effectiveness of the process, officials said Wednesday… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus may be ready to begin demonstration of uranium-enriching gas centrifuge in May
Centrus plans to introduce uranium hexafluoride into its new high assay, low enriched uranium cascade in Ohio around May 22, according to a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from the company. The commission published the letter online Tuesday. The missive… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
NRC working response to NM gov’s request to suspend work on Holtec interim storage license
The chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was preparing a response to a request by the governor of New Mexico that the commission stop working on a license for a proposed interim storage site in the state. That’s according to a letter the NRC sent to Gov.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
Constellation turns in latest cost estimate for Three Mile Island, updates spent fuel plan
It will take about another $1.1 billion to completely decommission the Three Mile Island Unit-1 reactor in Pennsylvania, Constellation Energy Generation told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a new detailed cost estimate published Wednesday. The roughly 40-page… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Transuranic Waste
Magistrate judge appointed in discrimination case against ex-WIPP contractor
A federal magistrate judge was assigned to handle pre-trial matters in a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by an employee at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico who claims he was unfairly bypassed for promotion by the former… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]