Vol. 25, No. 41

National Laboratories

Some Vaccine Refusal Firings Already at LANL, Sandia; Dec. 8 Deadline Looms Across Enterprise

Most National Nuclear Security Administration sites have given employees until Dec. 8 to get vaccinated, but some people at labs in New Mexico have already been terminated for refusing to at least begin a vaccine course.  At the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the northern part of the state, nearly 300 people have left the […]
  • Contracts & Procurement

    Savannah River “Targeting” Downblend of 34 Metric-Ton Tranche of Plutonium in FY 2026

    The National Nuclear Security Administration is “targeting” fiscal year 2026 as the startup date for a new facility at the Savannah River Site that will process 34 metric tons of surplus weapon usable plutonium for disposal in New Mexico, an agency official told advisors to South Carolina’s governor this week. That’s two years earlier than […]

  • Naval Nuclear Propulsion

    Nuclear Submarine Partnership Not Necessarily Exclusive, U.K.’s Top General Says

    A three-way partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia to help the latter acquire nuclear-powered submarines “is not designed in any way to be exclusive,” the U.K. military’s highest-ranking uniformed officer said this week. The trilateral deal, called AUKUS, was “a first step in terms of industrial development between like-minded partners,” Gen. […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    SHINE Nabs NNSA MO-99 Funding

    SHINE Technologies, Janesville, Wis., got $35 million through a cooperative agreement with the National Nuclear Security Administration to help produce the molybdenum-99 medical isotope in the U.S. without relying on highly enriched uranium, the agency announced this week. This was the third of four agreements planned under a funding opportunity Congress ordered the National Nuclear […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Fees Calling it a Career at BWXT in May

    Non-executive board chair John Fees will end a 43-year career with BWX Technologies and its predecessor companies on May 3, the Lynchburg, Va.-based naval nuclear reactor provider, fuel fabricator and defense-nuclear site-manager announced this week in a regulatory filing. Fees, who has been the non-executive chairman since 2018, will retire after the company’s board of directors […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Blinken Meets With IAEA, Senate Committee Moves Nonpro Diplomat Nominees

    The Secretary of State used a meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency to talk tough on Iran this week, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee approved a couple of nuclear-nonproliferation nominees at State. Secretary Anthony Blinken’s Monday meeting with Rafael Grossi, director general of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), happened […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Sister Megan Rice, Who Broke Into Y-12, Dies

    Sister Megan Rice, a peace activist whose 2012 break-in to the Y-12 National Security Complex spurred an overhaul of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s physical security apparatus, died Oct. 10 at 91, her order said. Rise was born in 1930 and joined the Society of Holy Child Jesus in 1947. After breaking into Y-12 at age […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Round Up: NNSA Nonpro Nominee Clears Committee; New Nuclear Fuel Services Prez; Intel Out on as HPC Prime; More

    Corey Hinderstein, the Joe Biden administration’s nominee to run the National Nuclear Security Administration’s defense nuclear nonproliferation office, cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by a voice vote. The full Senate had not scheduled a confirmation vote for Hinderstein at deadline Friday. If confirmed, she would lead a roughly $2-billion-a-year portfolio that includes […]

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