Vol. 5, No. 45 Delayed Earnings Report Shows Fluor With 1Q Loss
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Cleanup & Remediation
Virtual Portsmouth Site Visit Set Oct. 28
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans a virtual site tour and industry day Oct. 28 for potential bidders on a new services contract for the Portsmouth Site in Ohio. The online events are set for 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Eastern Time, the agency said in a Tuesday notice on a federal […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Kansas City Delivered Parts With Wrong Alloy to Pantex Because of Unclear Product Drawings
A vendor to the Kansas City National Security Campus made thousands of nuclear weapons parts with the incorrect alloy because “product drawings were not clear,” forcing the Pantex Plant to pause servicing on multiple nuclear weapons in mid-September while the National Nuclear Security Administration confirmed the parts were safe to use, a campus spokesperson said […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
STRATCOM Warns Against Triad Trimming, State Pushes Verifiable Warhead Freeze
On Wednesday, top U.S. officials in Washington warned against cutting the U.S. nuclear arsenal or agreeing to extend a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia without assurances that Moscow’s promised warhead freeze would actually happen. “[E]ach piece of our triad is essential, but they’re also complimentary,” Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, said […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
FirstEnergy Files for Protective Order, Opponents Can Respond Until Nov. 2
Anyone who opposes FirstEnergy’s plea for a protective order to block deposition of a company executive by an Ohio state government watchdog has until Nov. 2 to speak up, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio attorney examiner Gregory Price ruled Tuesday. FirstEnergy filed for the protective order last week. The company wants to block the production […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Frequent DOE Critic Not Reappointed to Advisory Board
Dennis Foreman, a frequent critic of Department of Energy decisions at the Portsmouth Site in Ohio is not being appointed to a new term on the Portsmouth Site Specific Advisory Board, he said Tuesday. Foreman, a schoolteacher and member of Piketon Village Council, became a member of the advisory board four years ago and learned […]
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Commercial Low-Level Waste
Public Comment Period for Very Low-Level Waste Rule Ends
The public comment period for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission rulemaking that would simplify the very low-level waste disposal process ended Wednesday with over 6,000 comments. Announced in March, the interpretive rule would allow the waste to be disposed of at facilities without Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licenses. The NRC would grant “specific exemptions” overriding current […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
CORRECTION
A story in Wednesday’s Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, “NNSA to Start Environmental Review of Dilute and Dispose This Year; Scope Unclear,” should have said that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is in Carlsbad, N.M.