Vol. 10, No. 37 Trump wants wide-ranging NRC overhaul within 18 months
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Plutonium Pit Production
Executive order halts surplus plutonium disposal; exempts South Carolina
One of President Donald Trump’s Friday executive orders instructs the secretary of energy to replace the surplus plutonium dilute and dispose program with one to process excess plutonium for fuel for advanced nuclear technologies. Trump’s executive order entitled “Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base,” one of four nuclear-themed executive orders released last week, said the program […]
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Data Centers & Energy Demand
First DOE data center announcement sought within 90 days
The Department of Energy could announce the first site for a data center to support artificial intelligence, which would be located on one of its federal installations, within 90 days, according to one of the nuclear executive orders Friday from President Donald Trump. Nuclear and non-nuclear support structures for such data centers on DOE installations […]
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Vitrification & Grout
DOE, Bechtel enhance simulant to test vitrification of liquid tank waste
The Department of Energy and Bechtel National said Tuesday they have taken another incremental step in cold commissioning of a multi-billion-dollar plant to convert liquid radioactive tank waste into a solid glass form at the Hanford Site in Washington state. Ammonia and nitrous oxide-producing chemicals are being introduced into the melters for the Waste Treatment […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Bussiere: USAF bomber fleet availability ‘in the 50s’
The percentage of U.S. Air Force bombers available for missions is in the 50s—a trend consistent with service-wide aircraft availability statistics, Gen. Thomas Bussiere, the head of Air Force Global Strike Command, said last week. Such availability takes into account aircraft in depot, while mission capability rates are typically higher, as they do not count […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Amentum JV awarded Norwegian cleanup contract
Amentum and a joint venture partner have been awarded a contract by Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning to deliver safety case management for the nation’s nuclear cleanup program. The contract awarded to Amentum and partner Multiconsult Norge AS is focused on delivering a new approach for safety cases for new design and existing legacy nuclear facilities. Existing […]