Vol. 3, No. 157

Budget & Policy

White House Picks DOE Nuclear Energy Chief, Waiting to Submit: Source

The White House has selected its choice to head the Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy, but won’t submit the nomination to the Senate until after the midterm elections on Nov. 6, an industry source said Tuesday. The source said he had not learned… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]
  • International

    U.S. Ambassador Says She Didn’t Mean U.S. Would Pre-Emptively Strike Russia Over INF Violation

    Walking back her remarks from earlier in the day, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday she did not mean to suggest the United States would pre-emptively attack any Russian missiles it believes could operate in the range prohibited by the Intermediate-Range… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    DOE Likes 70-Acre Central Bear Creek Site for Oak Ridge Landfill

    The Energy Department believes the Central Bear Creek Valley is the best place within the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) in Tennessee to develop a new 2.2-million-cubic yard waste disposal facility – due in part to its geology and groundwater flow conditions. Because… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]

  • Decommissioning

    Centrus Energy Gets $15 Million Deal to Decommission Oak Ridge Facility

    The Energy Department has retained Centrus Energy to prepare the K-1600 facility at the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennesseefor demolition. The Rockville, Md.-based nuclear fuel supplier has leased the uranium enrichment plant since 2002. Centrus announced Tuesday… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    Battle Over NRC Spent Fuel Storage Licenses Rolls On

    A nuclear watchdog organization and two private oil and gas entities are contesting the position from staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they cannot request dismissal of license applications for facilities to store spent nuclear reactor fuel… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    State Nuclear Nonpro Nomination Sent to Senate as 115th Session Wanes

    The Donald Trump nomination has officially nominated Jeffrey Eberhardt, a career senior executive service official now serving in the State Department’s arms control bureau, as special representative of the president for nonproliferation, with the rank of ambassador. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

  • Decommissioning

    Jacobs Picks Up New Work at Dounreay Site Decommissioning

    Jacobs Engineering said Tuesday it has secured two framework deals worth a total of $32 million to provide a range of services for the contractor handling decommissioning of the former Dounreay fast-reactor site in Scotland. The Dallas-based company said in a press… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    International Isotopes Awarded $1.6M in DOE Radioactive Source Recovery Work

    Idaho Falls-based nuclear medicine specialist International Isotopes on Tuesday said it had been awarded over 12 distinct contracts worth a total of $1.6 million for recovery of radiation sources in the United States and abroad. The Department of Energy issued… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as […]

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