Vol. 25, No. 10 
After a Year of COVID, 5K+ Cases at NNSA; 15 Fatalities
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Transuranic Waste
LANL Leery of TRU Waste Jam With Pit Start, WIPP Outage, Set to Collide
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant could go offline for a major ventilation upgrade right around the time the Los Alamos National Laboratory starts casting new nuclear weapon cores and generating a slew of new defense transuranic waste, a lab official said Wednesday… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Kreitz Leaving Los Alamos; Nelson Returning to Lab to Helm Pit Infrastructure Projects
Paul Kreitz, who has helped manage planning and construction of pit production infrastructure at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the past two years or so, is leaving lab manager Triad National Security in late April, a lab official said this week. Kreitz… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate Committee Unanimously Advances Turk Nomination for DOE DepSec
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee unanimously approved David Turk to be deputy secretary of energy in a roll call vote Thursday, clearing the way for the full Senate to confirm the former Biden staffer and Obama administration official for the agency’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Fast Critical Assembly Plutonium Will Become Glass, Not Go to WIPP, NNSA Decides
The National Nuclear Security Administration this week formalized a decision to immobilize some 350 kilograms of plutonium used in a Japanese research facility into glass-like cylinders at the Savannah River Site rather than sending the material to the Waste Isolation… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Defense Low-Level Waste
Y-12 Could Soon be Cleared to Resume Shipping Waste to Nevada
The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., could soon be approved to resume waste shipments to the Nevada National Security Site, Nevada’s federal site manager said Thursday at an online conference. The Y-12 certification was lifted following a 2019… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Huntington Ingalls Nuke Chief Eyes Bigger Role in Weapons Complex
Best known as a military shipbuilder, Huntington Ingalls Industries has been part of the Department of Energy’s weapons complex since 2008 and hopes to expand its foothold in the sector, the president of the company’s nuclear and environmental services group… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]