Vol. 22, No. 07 
NNSA Budget Request Would Jump-Start Interoperable Warhead, Still Cancel MOX
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty Confirmed as New NNSA Administrator
The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Lisa Gordon-Hagerty to be administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), making her the first woman to lead the semiautonomous Department of Energy branch in its nearly 20-year history. A former staffer at the Department of Energy and National Security Council, Gordon-Hagerty was nominated by President Donald […]
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National Laboratories
NM Legislature Approves Bill to Tax Nonprofit National Lab Operators
The New Mexico Legislature has approved a bill that would, if signed into law, force nonprofit operators of U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories in the state to pay a gross receipts tax. Senate Bill 17 cruised through the legislature with little opposition this session, culminating with a 48-19 vote in the state’s House of […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Budney Replaces Craig as Top Fed at SRS
Michael Budney will replace the retiring Jack Craig as manager of the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the Department of Energy announced Monday. Budney, a retired Navy captain, will be the top Department of Energy official at a site that employs about 11,000 civil servants and contractors and includes personnel from the agency’s National […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
SRS Stakeholders Denounce Plutonium Downblending at National Academy Meeting
South Carolina stakeholders for the Savannah River Site denounced Monday a potential plan to process 34 metric tons of plutonium and ship it to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., for permanent storage. That “dilute and dispose” option is the Department of Energy’s preferred approach for eliminating the plutonium, rather than continuing forward with construction and […]
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Non-Proliferation
No Hearing Yet for NNSA Nonproliferation Nominee
The White House has officially nominated Brent Park, a physicist from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration’s $2-billion-a-year nonproliferation portfolio, but the Senate Armed Services Committee had not scheduled a nomination hearing as of Friday. Park, whose nomination was sent to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, is now an associate laboratory […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA Camouflaging Power Lines for Uranium Processing Facility After Concerns From Oak Ridge Officials
A brief not-in-my-backyard bout between the city of Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) appears to have ended, with the agency announcing Thursday it plans by late 2019 to erect power lines and a substation for the future Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex. The semiautonomous Department […]