Vol. 21, No. 42

Life Extension Programs

Canning Interoperable Warheads Could Cut Trillion-Dollar Nuke Bill By $10B, CBO Says

It will cost about $1.2 trillion in current dollars to modernize and maintain the U.S. nuclear arsenal over 30 years, including $261 billion in Department of Energy spending, the Congressional Budget Office said this week. Even fairly major changes to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) part of that portfolio would shave only about $10 […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    Local Group Lauds DOE for Small Biz Incentives in LANL Solicitation

    While would-be bidders mull over the Department of Energy’s request for proposals to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next decade, a community representative is cautiously breathing a sigh of relief that the agency has made some concession to the local businesses for which the lab is lifeblood. The final solicitation was “surprising […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Trump Taps White House WMD Adviser for State Post

    The Donald Trump administration on Thursday nominated current White House counterproliferation adviser Christopher Ford to be assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation. If confirmed by the Senate, Ford would lead State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation: the arm of Foggy Bottom tasked with preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Key Lawmakers In Talks To Keep Government Open When CR Expires

    The chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees are discussing how to keep the government open after the current continuing resolution (CR) runs out Dec. 8, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Oct. 31. “We are in a four-cornered, bipartisan negotiation over how to fund the government, including the Trump […]

  • National Laboratories

    No Internal Contamination Reported After Rad Leak From Los Alamos Glove Box

    Three workers and two rooms were radioactively contaminated after a botched maintenance job on a glove box at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Plutonium Facility, the Department of Energy and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) said. It was the latest in a series of safety snafus at Los Alamos to come to light during […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Stormwater Leaked Into Pantex Pit Storage Zone

    Water leaked into a plutonium pit-storage area at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, after an August thunderstorm, the Department of Energy disclosed this month. On Aug. 13 and 14, thunderstorms dumped about 2 inches of rain on the north Texas city, according to data compiled by the National Weather Service. During the storm, “rain […]

  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    Centrus, ORNL Sign $16 Million Pact on Enrichment Technology

    Centrus Energy said Monday it has signed a $16 million contract to continue for another year its research and development of advanced gas centrifuge uranium enrichment technology at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. However, the company’s time in at least one Oak Ridge facility is nearing its end as […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    Fluor Reports $94 Million in 3Q earnings

    Fluor, one of the major contractors in the Department of Energy complex, on Thursday reported a significant earnings spike for the third quarter of 2017. The international construction and engineering firm reported quarterly net earnings of $94 million, or $0.67 per diluted share, compared to just shy of $5 million, or $0.03 per diluted share, […]

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