Vol. 26, No. 19 
Hearing on nuclear weapons, waste budgets canceled amid voting ‘circus’ on House floor
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Head of Pantex, Y-12 prime contractor to retire
Michelle Reichert said she will retire May 20 as president and chief executive officer of Consolidated Nuclear Security, the outgoing management and operations contractor of the U.S.’ two main nuclear-weapon production plants. Bill Tindal, Consolidated Nuclear Security’s (CNS) chief operating officer, will become the acting president and CEO, according to a note from CNS board […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Weather, steam generator ‘issues’ delay restart of weapons-tritium production at Watts Bar 2
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission allowed the Tennessee Valley Authority to work some people harder during an ongoing service outage at the Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor, where the restart of tritium production for nuclear weapons has slipped to June from mid-May, the commission said. The outage now “is now scheduled to be completed by early […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Columbia, Dreadnought subs ‘bounced back’ from faulty missile tubes, U.S. admiral says
Faulty missile tubes that earlier consumed months of schedule margin on the next-generation U.S. nuclear-armed, ballistic missile submarines are not pacing the schedule for the boats any more, the admiral in charge of the U.S. program said Thursday. “I retain margin on missile tubes,” Read Adm. Scott Pappano, the U.S. Navy’s program executive officer for […]
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Contracts & Procurement
BWXT Q1 earnings decline as revenue rises
Earnings fell at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va., in the first quarter, which the company this week attributed to pension issues and lower productivity in the naval reactors business. Net earnings for the first quarter were $59 million or $0.64 per share, down from $69.7 million, or $0.73 a share, in the year-ago quarter. Quarterly revenue […]
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National Laboratories
Los Alamos remained on maximum telework with Cerro Pelado fire burning; county schools were to reopen Monday
Though the Cerro Pelado wildfire was still burning Friday, local officials in Los Alamos County, N.M., announced Thursday public school students will return to their normal schedules on Monday, May 16. Meanwhile employees of the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory and the lab’s legacy cleanup contractor Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) […]
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National Laboratories
DNFSB appoints trio of new resident inspectors
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board this week added three new resident inspectors to monitor safety at Department of Energy sites in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Los Alamos, N.M. Clinton Jones is a new resident inspector for DOE’s Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Round Up: Energy and climate improvements for NNSA facilities; Pantex labor negotiations; congressional accord over compensation for atmospheric test downwinders
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said it established a new initiative to improve energy security and climate-change friendliness at its nationwide enterprise of labs, plants and sites. The Energy Resilient Infrastructure and Climate Adaptation (ERICA) initiative “will be a critical element of NNSA’s multi-faceted strategy to identify, prioritize, and implement infrastructure investments that increase […]