Vol. 26, No. 38 
Potential two-year COVID delay to UPF, Splitting Pantex, Y-12, among top issues for NNSA
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Savannah River Site to be transferred to NNSA control by 2025, DOE confirms
The National Nuclear Security Administration will take over the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by 2025, and the transition has started, the Department of Energy confirmed Tuesday. The former plutonium production site is currently the responsibility of DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), the part of the agency responsible for cleaning up shuttered Manhattan […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Work on competition for new nuke production contracts starting in 2023-24, NNSA says
The National Nuclear Security Administration planned to start work on a competition for a pair of new contracts to manage its main nuclear-weapon sites in 2023 and 2024, the agency said this week. In the meantime, Oct. 1 marked the official start of big-money extensions to Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), the Bechtel National-led incumbent at […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
Parts of Savannah River pit plant could be under construction by year’s end, site prime says
Subcontractors could begin building a planned plutonium pit factory at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by Dec. 31, the site’s prime contractor said Monday in a press release. “Construction is expected to begin before the end of this year,” the Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions wrote in the release. “Approximately 2,500 skilled craft […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA picks up next 10-year contract option for Westinghouse’s S.C. tritium-rod manufacturing
The National Nuclear Security Administration picked up Westinghouse Government Service’s next 10-year option to manufacture tritium producing burnable absorber rods at a South Carolina factory. The rods are the source of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons. Westinghouse has a sole-source contract to produce tritium producing burnable absorber rods, which the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory designed. […]
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Budget & Policy
Senate’s NDAA vote will wait until after election
The Senate will hold its next votes on Nov. 14, leadership announced Thursday, meaning the upper chamber won’t consider its version of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act until after the midterm elections. However, debate will begin on the annual, must-pass defense-policy bill on on Oct. 11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) […]
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International
Wrap-up: Hruby at Semipalatinsk; Ex-labs man splits Nobel; New climate, energy guy at Leidos
During her ongoing travel overseas this week, Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, visited the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan: a former nuclear test site for the Soviet Union. The NNSA shared a few photos from the visit on Twitter. John Clauser, a physicist who spent time at Department of Energy […]