Vol. 26, No. 29 
House passes DOE appropriations bills; NNSA gets roughly requested funding and B83
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Plutonium Pit Production
House, Senate NDAAs both want much more for South Carolina pits
The Senate Armed Services Committee this week released all the unclassified details of its fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, showing lawmakers in that chamber disagree with their House counterparts on little except by how much to exceed the White House’s request for construction of a new plutonium pit factory in South Carolina. The […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Duling to resign as president of BWXT’s biggest business line
Joel Duling will resign as president of BWT Technology’s mainstay Nuclear Operations Group effective July 29, the company wrote in a regulatory filing dated Monday. Duling informed the company of his decision on July 12, according to the 8-K filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. “Joel Duling is retiring from BWXT to pursue other […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
CEO Tindal retiring from Pantex, Y-12 prime
Bill Tindal retired as chief executive officer of Consolidated Nuclear Security, the Bechtel National-led management contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two main nuclear-weapons production sites, a company spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. “We shared with employees yesterday that Bill has retired,” the spokesperson said. Gene Sievers, site manager for Y-12 National Security Complex, is now […]
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Contracts & Procurement
Triad taps Centerra-led contractor for Los Alamos security
Northern New Mexico Integrated Security, a joint venture between incumbent Centerra Group and Tsay Construction and Services, a small business with tribal ownership, won a five-year security services contract at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the lab announced Wednesday. Triad National Security, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s management contractor for Los Alamos, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE signals rulemaking for nuclear facility hazard categories
In a few years, the Department of Energy could make its practices for categorizing hazards found in nuclear facilities a formal federal rule, the agency wrote in a recent letter to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. DOE would not begin the rulemaking until 2025 at the earliest, according to the June 27 letter to […]
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Round up: Clarity for uranium vendors; GAO sting on NRC; Masks on, masks off; more
Vendors who want to sell uranium to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for the agency’s planned uranium reserve need not have produced the uranium themselves, so long as they have operated a domestic uranium facility at some point since 2009, the agency clarified this week. Furthermore, in the amendment posted Wednesday to its solicitation […]