Senate floats stopgap budget, $35M for NNSA Ukraine activities
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Plutonium Pit Production
COVID-19 created more than a year’s worth of delays for pit production at Los Alamos, lab said
Due primarily to COVID-19, Los Alamos National Laboratory believed it could take a year longer than expected for the the lab to casting 10 plutonium pits annually in New Mexico, according to an internal document. A redacted copy of the Los Alamos-authored document, dated September 2021 and released by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Contract extensions expected within days for SRS prime, security provider
The Department of Energy plans to ink a contract extension by Friday with the management and operations manager for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, an agency executive told a federal advisory board Monday. “A new contract should be signed sometime this week because Sept. 30 is approaching fast,” said Jimmy “Mac” McMillian, DOE […]
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Decommissioning
Earliest wastewater discharge from Pilgrim plant in Q1 2023, Holtec says
The company in charge of decommissioning a former Massachusetts nuclear power plant said Monday night that, if it decides to follow through on a controversial plan to release irradiated wastewater from the facility, it will do so early next year. The earliest time “under consideration” for discharging water from Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station would be […]