Vol. 7, No. 48 DNFSB seeks safety briefing on TSCR
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
White House statement on Senate NDAA still opposes SLCM-N, B83, but no veto threat
Congress should not authorize or fund a nuclear-tipped, lower-yield sea-launched cruise missile or save a megaton-class gravity bomb, the White House said again Tuesday. The message was part of a statement of administration policy about the Senate’s version of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which like the version of the annual […]
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Decommissioning
Palisades plant to have new congressional rep after midterms
A recently-shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant that the state hopes to get running again will have new representation in Congress after November’s midterm elections. Until this year, the Covert, Mich., Palisades Nuclear Generating Station was located within the state’s sixth congressional district, represented by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.). Following a redistricting effort, the plant is […]
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International
A year-plus after renationalization, effect of lost U.K. weapons complex shows at Lockheed
In the nine months just ended, renationalization of the U.K. nuclear weapons complex cost Lockheed Martin’s Space segment more than three quarters of a billion dollars, the company reported Tuesday. Bringing the British weapons program fully back into the government’s arms dropped sales in Lockheed Space by some $865 million over the past nine months, […]
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High-Level & Tank Waste
National Weather Services agrees to storm support at Hanford
The Hanford Site in Washington state, the Department of Energy’s largest and most costly nuclear cleanup property, has been dubbed “Storm Ready” under a voluntary program with the National Weather Service, DOE said Tuesday. The National Weather Service program is meant to assist emergency managers at the former plutonium production complex beef up operations during […]