Vol. 25, No. 44 
Department of Energy Cancels Savannah River Site Contract Competition, Citing NNSA Missions
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Decommissioning
D&D Project for Pits at PF-4 Targeted for 2025 Wrap
A major subproject to clear out space for new pit-manufacturing equipment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will cost about $530 million and finish ripping up old glove boxes and equipment by 2025 or so, a lab spokesperson said. In the decontamination and decommissioning of Los Alamos’ PF-4 Plutonium Facility, which is being expanded to […]
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National Laboratories
Judge Won’t Block LANL Vax Mandate Yet, Compels Refusers to Arbitration With Lab
Declining to block the lab’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a judge ruled Monday that Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees who will not take a required COVID-19 vaccine and are unsatisfied with receiving unpaid leave as their religious exemption from the shot must hash things out with the lab in arbitration. Pending the outcomes of other lawsuits […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus Sees Boost on Pension Settlement in Q3; Revenue Rises Across Segments
Centrus Energy Corp., Bethesda, Md., on Wednesday posted net income of about $41.5 million, or $2.95 a share for the 2021 third quarter, up from a loss of $7 million or 83 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Quarterly revenue was about $91 million, up from more than $57.5 million a year ago, mostly […]
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Decommissioning
Defense Board Still on DOE Over Building-235, Wants Annual Briefing on D&D
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is still hammering the Department of Energy about a nearly decade-old recommendation to stiffen safety requirements at Savannah River Site’s Building 235-F to avoid a plutonium release from the aging structure. In a Nov. 2 letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Joyce Connery, the board chair, praised DOE […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Aussie Nuke Subs Will be Based on Existing Design; Due Diligence Done With U.S., Ambassador Says
Australia will modify an existing submarine design when it acquires nuclear propulsion under the new AUKUS trilateral partnership with the United Kingdom and the U.S., Canberra’s ambassador to the states said in a virtual presentation this week. “We didn’t want to spend years playing around with a design and so with our American and English […]
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International
Round Up: NNSA Leadership at SRS; U.S.-China Nuke Dialog; DOE at SC21; More
Amid some intra-agency controversy about the site’s contractual future, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby visited the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., this week, the agency tweeted. Frank Rose, the deputy administrator, and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) were along for the visit. President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Editor’s Note: The New Exchangemonitor.com
Exchangemonitor.com has refreshed its website and now posts news and commentary from across the defense- and civilian-nuclear industries in (near) real time. If you haven’t gotten used to checking exchangemonitor.com throughout the day, we could hardly blame you. Our old website didn’t allow us to push updates to you as quickly as we could write […]