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 according to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board’s DNFSB latest Oak Ridge site report. […]
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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, effective Nov. 1, follows a four-month search for someone to head the plutonium infrastructure directorate, which […]
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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 U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security said this week. Bonnie Jenkins, confirmed to […]
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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 Corp.’s pension fund this week. Centrus will collect about $43.5 million from […]