Vol. 5, No. 40 Budgets Frozen at 2020 Levels Through Dec. 11; EM Gets More Than Requested, NNSA Far Less
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Texas Gov. Appeals to Trump Wednesday With Complaint Over Spent Fuel Proposals
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Democrat New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham may come from ideologically opposite sides of the spectrum, but now they have at least one gripe in common: neither is interested in hosting a nuclear waste storage facility in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
Parsons Overcomes COVID-19 Flare Up in Preparing for Launch of SWPF
A COVID-19 outbreak hit the Salt Waste Processing Facility roughly a month before its scheduled opening at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina, but the outbreak is under control now, the facility’s prime contractor said Wednesday. More… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
New Lineup of Major Hanford Contractors Slowly Emerging
With Tuesday’s award from the Department of Energy, four major new contractors have been announced for the Hanford Site in Washington state since last December. Two of the four joint ventures have already received a green light to start transition from DOE’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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Warhead & Weapons Development
NNSA Definitely Continuing UPF Construction, Wednesday Environmental Decision Shows
Not that it ever stopped, but the National Nuclear Security Administration on Wednesday officially reaffirmed its decision to continue building the Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The long-expected news, delivered… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Contracts & Procurement
OSI Systems Acquires Nuclear Security Company Nucsafe
OSI Systems acquired the radiation detection company Nucsafe in a deal that expands its products and customer footprint in the nuclear security market. Terms of the transaction, which was conducted by OSI’s subsidiary American Science & Engineering, were… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Funding Boost For a Post-Nuclear Town
A New York congresswoman announced a $3 million relief package for the site of the soon-to-be-decommissioned Indian Point Energy Center in New York to help revitalize the local economy on Wednesday. Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) plans to use the funding to create a… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Fluor Idaho Agrees to Mentor Deal With Local Engineering Firm
Fluor Idaho, the cleanup contractor for the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, will serve as mentor to an engineering services firm in Idaho Falls. The remediation contractor announced in a Tuesday press release that it signed a mentor-protégé… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Deadline to Drop Out of Historic Small Reactor Project Extended by a Month
The group of cities that originally signed on to buy the energy produced by NuScales Power small reactors has agreed to extend the deadline to drop out of the project by another month. The original deadline to withdraw from Nuscales’ Carbon Free Power Project… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Quotes From the Complex — COVID-19: A Risk You Can Take Home
“We do pretty high-hazard work in the complex, and we found it very interesting that folks who would climb into a reactor vessel or be moving fuel, or out in the DOE complex would be opening canisters to do repackaging — which is at some level pretty risky… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex […]