Vol. 26, No. 10 
NNSA budget up in omnibus; prohibitions against B83, sea-launched W80-4 gone
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Plutonium Pit Production
NNSA can’t spend its way to plutonium pit goal, STRATCOM commander tells senators
There is not enough money in the world for the National Nuclear Security Administration to spend its way to making 80 plutonium pits a year by 2030, the general who commands U.S. nuclear forces told Congress Tuesday morning. “[W]e now know that we will not get 80 pits per year by 2030 as is statutorily […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Centrus has another profitable year; downplays worries over Russian uranium
Uranium broker and enrichment technology developer Centrus, Bethesda, Md., posted a profitable 2021, easily besting year-ago figures with a net income of $175 million, or $9.75 a share, on revenue of about $300 million, the company reported Thursday. That compared with a net income of almost $54.5 million, or 57 cents a share, in 2020. […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
MFFF contractor settles fraud case with feds
MOX Services, the contractor that was building the canceled plutonium facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, settled allegations of fraud with the government to the tune of $10 million, the Department of Justice announced Monday. The contractor paid to end the nearly three year-old litigation over federal claims that it submitted “false […]
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Budget & Policy
Impending Retirement Prompts NNSA Search for New Senior Project Management Exec for HQ
The National Nuclear Security Administration was recently searching for a new director for its office of enterprise project management, according to a want-ad posted on the federal government’s official recruiting website. According to the listing, the agency conducted interviews only for a month, from Jan. 21 to Feb. 22. The current occupant of the office — […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Removal of ‘scary’ asbestos-laden Biology Complex, clears way for Y-12 lithium project
PHOENIX — After finishing major demolition and remediation last fall of the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Biology center or “mouse house,” the Department of Energy cleanup contractor is “very close” to turning the property back to Y-12 prime Consolidated Nuclear Services, a speaker told the Waste Management Symposia session Wednesday. “It is imminent,” Tommy Morgan, chief engineer […]
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International
IAEA looking into reports power back at Chernobyl after blackout
The U.N.’s nuclear panel is investigating reports that power has been restored at Ukraine’s former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, days after a blackout that raised concerns about the safety of the site’s spent fuel stores. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement Thursday that it was “looking for confirmation” that the lights […]