Vol. 6, No. 55 Air Force Wraps Up B61-12 Test Regimen on F35-A
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Decommissioning
Contractor Brings Down Last of DOE Buildings at Santa Susana’s ETEC Site
A contractor for the Department of Energy has finished tearing down the last of 18 buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center within the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley, Calif., the agency said Monday. The last of the buildings at the Energy Technology Engineering Center (ETEC), Sodium Pump Test Facility, came down Friday, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Portsmouth Advisory Board Scuttles October Meeting
The Department of Energy’s advisory board for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio has postponed its meeting set for Thursday in Piketon, Ohio and will reschedule it at a later date, according to a statement Monday from the administrative contractor for the board. An email from EHI Consultants, on behalf of the advisory board cited two […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
NNSA to Seek Comment on Prolonging Uranium Exports for Mo-99 Beyond January
A two-year extension on highly enriched uranium exports for production of the Molybdenum-99 medical isotope is set to come to an end in January, but the National Nuclear Security Administration was preparing to take public comments starting Tuesday about extending those exports. Federal law effectively allows the Secretary of Energy to unilaterally extend exports of […]
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Decommissioning
Revised Insider-Threat Guidance for Nuke Plants Coming This Month, NRC Says
An updated version of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s guidance for preventing workplace sabotage and other insider threats at nuclear power plants should come out this month, the agency said Monday. NRC staff are “in the final steps” of revising the commission’s Insider Mitigation Program (IMP), an agency spokesperson told Weapons Complex Morning Briefing via email […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC Names Dorman as New Ops Director
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission promoted Daniel Dorman to director of operations, the agency wrote Tuesday in a press release. Dorman is assuming his new post effective Oct. 10, NRC said. The former deputy executive director of the commission’s reactor and preparedness programs is stepping up to replace Margaret Doane, who is leaving NRC Friday for […]
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Budget & Policy
Transition Team Members Headline Granholm’s Advisory Board
The former head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the one-time number-two at the National Nuclear Security Administration will lead the latest incarnation of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, the Department of Energy said Monday. Stanford University professor Arun Majumdar, once the head of the Joe Biden administration’s transition team for the Department […]
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Stockpile Stewardship
DOE’s Office of Inspector General to Tackle Many Issues in Fiscal 2022
The Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General has a busy fiscal 2022 schedule of audits and inspections planned for projects affecting the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and the semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration. Last Thursday the DOE Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its work plan for the fiscal year that began Friday. […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Correction:
A Sept. 23 article in Weapons Complex Morning Briefing [“DNFSB Questions if Time Made Stranded Drums Safe for Travel”], should have identified a Sept. 8 letter to the Department of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office as a letter requesting a report. The article relied upon an incorrect reference to the letter on the Defense Nuclear Facilities […]