Vol. 7, No. 22 
Hearing on nuclear weapons, waste budgets canceled amid voting ‘circus’ on House floor
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Head of Pantex, Y-12 prime contractor to retire next week
Michelle Reichert said she will retire May 20 as president and chief executive officer of Consolidated Nuclear Security, the outgoing management and operations contractor of the U.S.’ two main nuclear-weapon production plants. Bill Tindal, Consolidated Nuclear… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Decommissioning
NRC IG fires back at staff response to Diablo Canyon feedwater leak investigation
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s inspector general pushed back Wednesday on claims by agency staff that the internal watchdog bent the facts in its review of the commission’s response to a 2020 safety issue at a California nuclear power plant, new documents… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
EnergySolutions pushing back on eleventh-hour interventions on Kewaunee plant sale
The company looking for state approval to purchase a Wisconsin nuclear power plant for decommissioning sought Wednesday to counter an advocacy group’s last-minute push for an independent technical review of the transaction, new filings show. EnergySolutions… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]
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Budget & Policy
EM request would pump $40M into poor communities alongside cleanup sites
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans to invest $40 million of grant money into poor communities and tribal governments near federal nuclear cleanup sites. William (Ike) White, the senior adviser and top federal boss at the Environmental Management (EM) office cited the Community Capacity Building initiative in his written testimony filed Wednesday […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Low-level landfill at Oak Ridge inches closer to approval
The state of Tennessee kicked off a comment period this week about a long-debated low-level radioactive waste landfill at the Oak Ridge Site, which would replace one expected to reach capacity this decade, a citizens’ advisory board heard Wednesday. The comment… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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National Laboratories
DNFSB appoints trio of new resident inspectors
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board this week added three new resident inspectors to monitor safety at Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Los Alamos, N.M. Clinton Jones is a new resident inspector for DOE’s Y-12 National Security Complex… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Budget & Policy
After 40-plus years, one of DOE’s longest-serving feds calls it a career
One of the earliest employees at the Department of Energy, deputy general counsel Eric Fygi, is retiring this week about 45 years after joining the fledgling agency, a spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. “Fygi has been with the Department since its inception in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]