Vol. 25, No. 33

Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

Centrus’ HALEU Cascade Costs Creep Up With COVID

Centrus Energy Corp. has identified about $9 million worth of pandemic-related expenses at  its new enrichment cascade in Ohio and wants the Department of Energy to help defray the costs, the company in a regulatory filing. “[W]e plan to seek additional funding… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]
  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    NNSA Releases Sources Sought for Domestic Uranium Reserve

    The National Nuclear Security Administration has released a sources sought note seeking information about a new uranium reserve program that Congress earlier this year ordered the agency to establish. According to the note, the reserve would be a stockpile of uranium… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    S.C. Lawmakers to Discuss Division of S.C. Plutonium Settlement Money Next Week

    An ad hoc committee of the South Carolina legislature was scheduled to discuss on Aug. 24 which of the counties surrounding the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., will share in a $600 million federal plutonium settlement. “I want to make sure our friends from… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]

  • Stockpile Stewardship

    August Experiment at NIF Set New Fusion Output Record for Facility

    Shortly after the House and Senate united to protect the Department of Energy’s inertial confinement fusion program from some proposed austerity next fiscal year, the program’s emblematic National Ignition Facility shattered its own record for neutron yield. The… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Round Up: PF-4 Flooding; Lithium Costs; New NNSA Public Affairs Head; More

    Operations, including work supporting plutonium pit manufacturing, are back on at Los Alamos’ PF-4 plutonium facility following a 200-gallon flood precipitated by an untrained worker operating a wet van system in the future pit factory. “After three weeks the… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

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