Vol. 1, No. 27

Non-Proliferation

Industry Leaders Commit to Ongoing Nuclear Security Enhancements

Global nuclear industry leaders pledged this week to improve nuclear security practices, enhance security culture within the industry, and improve their defenses against cyberattacks to fulfill their role in the global nuclear security architecture. Industry leaders presented Wednesday a joint statement of their commitments to the national leaders participating in the Nuclear Security Summit later […]
  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Russia Could OK New U.S. Plutonium Disposition Plan: Expert

    Russia is prepared to accept a revised U.S. plan for disposal of surplus weapon-usable plutonium, provided it is assured the process could not be reversed, a Russian expert said Wednesday. The United States and Russia in 2000 agreed to each dispose of 34 metric tons of excess plutonium via conversion into mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel for nuclear […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    HEU Minimization Pledge Eyed at Summit

    It appears a group of 19 nations are preparing to pledge at this week’s Nuclear Security Summit to further drive down their use of weapon-usable highly enriched uranium for civilian purposes, one expert said on Wednesday. The two-day summit, which begins Thursday in Washington, D.C., will include new pledges by individual and groups of states […]

  • National Laboratories

    N.M. Releases Draft Revised LANL Cleanup Consent Order

    The New Mexico Environment Department on Wednesday rolled out a draft of a revised consent order governing hazardous waste cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The package, presented at a meeting of the Northern New Mexico Citizens Advisory Board, includes a 45-day period for public comment that ends May 26. “We’ll have to sit down […]

  • Transuranic Waste

    Six Tons of Plutonium Officially Headed to WIPP

    The Energy Department on Wednesday made official its decision to send 6 metric tons of nuclear weapon-usable plutonium from the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, S.C., to the agency’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. The official stamp of approval arrives a day before the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit convenes in […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Spent Fuel Transport Worries Could Impact Storage Schedule: NAC CEO

    An industry executive agreed Wednesday that concerns over transportation of spent nuclear fuel could impact the Department of Energy’s deadlines for moving that material into consolidated interim storage. DOE in December rolled out plans for the operation of a pilot storage facility by 2021; one or more larger, interim facilities by 2025; and finally at least one permanent […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Mishap at UPF Site Results in Some Work Delays

    An excavation contractor working on site preparations for the Uranium Processing Facility in late January accidentally demolished a storm drain line on the west side of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Tennessee, resulting in some activities at the construction site being put on hold for a month or more, according to a Defense Nuclear […]

  • High-Level & Tank Waste

    Hanford Site Flips a Lid

    Bechtel National has flipped its lid — a 28-ton melter lid for the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility (LAW). The lid, for one of the facility’s melters, had been upside down to allow for placement of the refractory, a cement-like insulation. To turn the lid right side up without damaging it, a […]

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