Vol. 4, No. 150 Appropriations Bill Would Restore Most Hanford Funding
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
NNSA Budget Legislation Would Tap Brakes on New ICBM Warheads
A proposed nuclear weapons budget due for a committee vote in the House of Representatives today would tap the brakes forcefully on the next intercontinental ballistic missile warhead and sharply curtail another pair of nuclear weapons programs. That is according… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Yucca Mountain Down, Not Out, in FY20 Energy Bill
The House Appropriations Committee this morning will resume the debate over funding licensing of a nuclear waste repository under Yucca Mountain, Nev. The fiscal 2020 energy and water development bill scheduled to be marked up in committee starting at 10:30 a.m.… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Budget & Policy
NNSA Funding Bill Tees Up More Work for JASON
A 2020 spending proposal from the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee directs the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to tap the independent group of JASON scientists for at least one, and perhaps two, new studies. After the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Budget & Policy
House Funding Plan Includes No Uranium Barter for Nuclear Cleanup
The House Appropriations energy and water subcommittee said Monday the practice of bartering excess government uranium to help fund remediation of the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio will not be allowed in fiscal 2020. Instead, the subcommittee’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
House Panel Prefers FUSRAP Under Army Corps
Appropriators in the House of Representatives said Monday they see no reason to transfer the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP) from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Department of Energy. “The Committee is pleased with the current… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Pike County Vetting Labs to Sample for Contaminants Near Portsmouth
The Pike County, Ohio, General Health District hopes this week to select a third-party laboratory to conduct air and water sampling near the Energy Department facility suspected of being the source of radioactive contaminants found recently at a local middle school. “We… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]