Vol. 8, No. 67

Plutonium Pit Production

NNSA kicks can on facility crucial to disposing of old warhead cores

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s drive to make new nuclear-weapon cores has delayed disposal of old ones, according to an agency statement emailed to the Exchange Monitor on Tuesday. Amid the expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s PF-4 Plutonium Facility and early work on South Carolina’s planned Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, which combined […]
  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    And then there were 2 board members at DNFSB

    With long-timer Jessie Hill Roberson’s Wednesday retirement from the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the federal government’s independent safety watchdog for nuclear-weapon sites is down to two members. Chair Joyce Connery and Vice Chair Thomas Summers are the only two active members of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), leaving the nominally five-member panel […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    GAO wants Army Corps to get a handle on rising FUSRAP liability

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could counter a dramatic spike in its environmental liability by using new management practices at the 19 nuclear-weapon sites it is cleaning up, Congress’ investigative arm said this week. The secretary of the Army should also ensure the Corps develops a lifecycle cost estimate for the Formerly Utilized Sites […]

  • National Laboratories

    9th Circuit panel considers if Sandia scientist’s retirement was voluntary

    Federal appeals judges on Wednesday heard arguments about whether the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories prime contractor forced out a 25-year scientist and manager by giving him only a day to decide whether to resign or undergo a performance improvement program. Plaintiff Robert Hwang, a Ph. D. formerly at the lab, “was fearful he […]

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