Vol. 25, No. 35 
Biden Promises Federal-Contractor Vaccine Mandate
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
UPF Start Up in Aug. 2025, Defense Board Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Uranium Processing Facility will start up in August 2025, almost a year later than once anticipated but with months of margin to spare to reach full operational capability by the long-promised date of December 2025. That’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
First Full-Time Plutonium Infrastructure Boss Rounds Out New Directorate at LANL
Mark Anthony will move to New Mexico from Lund, Sweden, where he directed construction of a multibillion neutron source, to lead the new plutonium infrastructure directorate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the lab said this week. Anthony’s appointment,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Non-Proliferation
In First In-Person Appearance, Jenkins Lays Out State’s Aims for Post New START Arms Control
New nuclear arms-control agreements should focus on all Russian nuclear weapons, including those unrestricted by the New START treaty, and “pursue new risk reduction measures” with China to address Beijing’s “rapid and opaque nuclear buildup,” the new… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Round Up: Centrus Pension Settlement; Uranium Reserve; Saturday Sandia Sounding Rocket; Cooper Caught in Redistricting?
In a legal settlement announced this week in a regulatory filing, uranium fuel broker and enrichment technology developer Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., said it got the millions of dollars it was seeking from the Department of Energy for the old U.S. Enrichment… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]