Vol. 7, No. 28 Senior NNSA officials to testify in Senate in home stretch of budget hearing season
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Plutonium Pit Production
Plan to get plutonium-pit factories back on track coming in ‘early fall,’ official tells lawmakers
It will take all summer to finalize a plan aimed at hastening construction of a key nuclear-weapon-component factory that has fallen behind schedule in South Carolina, a Pentagon official said Tuesday in a congressional hearing. It is nearly the end of the annual… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Judge rejects COVID vax case brought by Hanford security guards
A federal judge in Washington state tossed a revised lawsuit brought by 300-plus employees at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, many of them security guards, over the COVID-19 vaccination rule, saying the plaintiffs never fixed major legal issues with… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Swift & Staley opposes feds’ effort to set time limit on injunction protecting its Paducah biz
Even after a judge stayed his earlier ruling finding incumbent Swift & Staley is too big for the small business set-aside contract awarded by the Department of Energy in late 2020, the parties are still arguing over how long the company should remain the landlord… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]
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Decommissioning
Wisconsin public service commission to discuss Kewaunee sale Wednesday
The state regulator tasked with approving the proposed sale of a Wisconsin nuclear power plant was scheduled Wednesday to discuss the transaction, according to a new meeting notice from the organization. If the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (WPSC) during… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]