Vol. 5, No. 46

Cleanup & Remediation

Six Hanford Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

Six more employees at the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state tested positive for COVID-19, according to weekend posts on the emergency operations website. Two workers informed management on Saturday that they have tested positive, followed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    Critic Cautions New Mexico Lawmakers on ‘Forever WIPP’

    The Department of Energy’s underground disposal site for defense-related transuranic waste is succumbing to mission creep, an agency critic told the New Mexico Legislature’s Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Committee last week. The mission at the Waste Isolation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Commercial Decommissioning

    Sen. Schumer, Sen. Gillibrand Ask for Hearing in Indian Point License Transfer

    Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and New York members of Congress sent a second letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission last week asking for a hearing before the Indian Point Energy Center license transfer application. The lawmakers… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Winter Weather Delays Pantex Day Shift; Wild Weather All Over at Top of Week

    Non-essential day-shift personnel at the Pantex Plant got a two-hour delay on Monday because of foul weather including ice and snow in the Texas panhandle, the site said. Amarillo, Texas, and the rest of the High Plains region — plus many points east — chilled… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Russia Drops More Arms Control Proposals; NSA O’Brien Scheduled for Nat Sec Talk Wednesday

    Amid the public whipsaw of New START nuclear-arms negotiations between Washington and Moscow, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, offered to limit deployment of land-based intermediate range missiles near the European border, media reported. Early Monday morning,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

  • National Laboratories

    This Week:

    Here are some public events related to defense- and civilian-nuclear matters that the ExchangeMonitor staff is tracking this week. Monday: The Citizens Advisory Board for the Savannah River Site will meet virtually today starting at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. The session… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    CORRECTION

    A story in the Oct. 19 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing incorrectly attributed remarks made by Scott Cannon of the National Nuclear Security Administration to the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility. The Monitor has revised the story. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]

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