Vol. 27, No. 09 
Livermore director testifies to Congress about ‘significant’ promise of ‘feasible’ fusion energy
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International
Russia officially suspends New START treaty, State spox says
A State Department spokesperson confirmed this week that Russia officially suspended its participation in the world’s biggest bilateral nuclear-weapons treaty. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also mentioned the treaty to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New Delhi, India, during what the spokesperson called a “rather brief encounter” between the two at the Quad Foreign […]
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Non-Proliferation
Biden signs classified memo with new guidelines for radioactive, nuclear-material nonproliferation
President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a classified memo establishing new rules for the permanent disposal of weapon-usable nuclear material and the handling of weaponizable radioactive substances, the White House announced. National Security Memorandum 19 “establishes the first comprehensive policy for securing radioactive materials, which present continuing domestic and global risk, along with new domestic […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Uranium chips in hood caused fire that prompted evacuation of key Y-12 weapons facility
Machined uranium chips caused the fire that prompted last week’s evacuation of the Y-12 National Security Complex’s Building 9212, a site spokesperson said this week. “In the event on February 22, chips of uranium metal from machining activity had been processed for storage in accordance with standard operating procedures,” a Y-12 spokesperson wrote Thursday in […]
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International
DOE releases compilation of contribution to Ukraine resistance
The Department of Energy on Friday marked the anniversary of Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine with a list of the agency’s contributions to Kyiv during the conflict. Both the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Office of Nuclear Energy merited callouts in Friday’s press release for showing Ukrainian personnel how to identify radiation releases, conduct unspecified […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Round up: The hard fight for waste at Y-12; Quantum leap for SNL official; NRC paves way for medical isotope production
PHOENIX – Winning support for a new low-level radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee took a lot of time and friendly arm-twisting, a member of the House Appropriations Committee told the Waste Management Symposia Monday via electronic hookup from Washington, D.C. At various points, “we were stymied by […]