Vol. 5, No. 70

Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

Nuke Counter Spots Construction of Weapons Generation Facility at F.E Warren

A non-government group using commercial satellite imagery believes it caught the start of structural construction on a new, highly-secure nuclear-weapon storage facility at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. “A satellite image taken in August and obtained from Maxar shows construction is well underway of the underground [Weapons Generation Facility (WGF)] as well as several […]
  • Transuranic Waste

    Livermore Making Waste Shipments to WIPP

    The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is making shipments of transuranic waste to the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, a lab spokesman said Monday.  Three shipments left Lawrence Livermore for WIPP during the week of Sept. 21, Livermore spokesman Nolan O’Brien wrote in an email. Livermore crews expect to […]

  • Interim Storage & Waste Disposal

    N.J. Township Gripes About ‘Temporary’ Storage as Fight With Holtec Becomes Federal Case

    Local officials in New Jersey blocked Holtec from expanding spent fuel storage space for the shuttered Oyster Creek power plant in part because the company “mischaracterized” the facility as a temporary structure, court papers filed Monday show. “Temporary in nuclear terms means decades, not months or even years,” the Township of Lacey Planning Board wrote […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Former DNFSB Chair Used Procedural Tactics to Extend Substandard COVID-19 Response Plan, Audit Says

    The former chair of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board used procedural tactics to block board approval of a COVID-19 response plan that complied with federal best practices, the inspector general of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said. The independent federal nuclear health-and-safety watchdog drafted a COVID-19 response plan at the onset of the pandemic, but […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    North Wind Wins 3-Year Task Order for Cleanup Work at Livermore

    Idaho-based North Wind Group got a three-year, $4.5-million task order for cleanup work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced the small-business set-aside award to North Wind in a Monday press release. The new task order was issued under an existing indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for […]

  • Reactor Licensing & Regulation

    NRC to Discuss Waste, Regulatory Trends

    In the 2019 fiscal year, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) almost met its security strategic goal — but not quite.  According to a powerpoint published on the commission’s website ahead of a Wednesday oversight meeting, a “single event” caused the NRC to miss the goal that year.  Commissioners are set to discuss the missed goal […]

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