Vol. 9, No. 102 Anti-nuclear advocacy group seeks partial relief from Rocky Flats order
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Plutonium Pit Production
NNSA refutes anti’s amicus brief, says agency looked at environmental effect of Los Alamos pits
The National Nuclear Security Administration, in asking a court to deny an activist’s amicus brief in an ongoing lawsuit, said it conducted a review of producing warhead cores in New Mexico. At the end of October, Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group in Albuquerque, N.M., filed a proposed amicus brief saying […]
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Commercial Decommissioning
NY law prohibiting radwaste in Hudson River is about property, not safety, state tells court
With less than a month left to brief the court, attorneys for New York said the state’s ban on discharging irradiated water from shuttered nuclear plants does not violate federal law. For that reason, attorneys for the state said in a Nov. 8 court filing, the U.S. District Court for the New York Southern District […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Texas should consider ‘recycling,’ state-chartered group says in advanced reactor report
In the only mention of high-level waste in a 72-page report a year in the marking, a state-chartered group on Monday said Texas should consider building a “nuclear recycling facility.” “Texas should contemplate and discuss a state position on the development of a nuclear recycling facility to reduce high level radioactive waste in the U.S.,” […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA to survey for aerial radiation in Las Vegas ahead of F1 race
The National Nuclear Security Administration will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights starting Tuesday this week over Las Vegas, Nev. ahead of the city’s Grand Prix, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said. According to a post Monday from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on the website X, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will use […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Boston Government Services appoints senior biz VP
Oak Ridge, Tenn.,-based Boston Government Services has hired Bernie Boucher as its senior vice president for business development, the company said this week. After spending 21 years in the U.S. Army, Boucher was most recently a vice president with CACI International in Reston, Va. Boucher has also worked in a business development post with Northrop […]