Vol. 28, No. 10

Budget & Policy

NNSA, nuclear weapons fully funded through compromise bill

The National Nuclear Security Administration stands to see its roughly $24 billion budget request fulfilled under the compromise funding agreement reached by Congress this week.   The bill includes just over $19 billion for NNSA weapons activities and includes a requirement that the agency work with the scientific advisory group JASON to “conduct an assessment of […]
  • Reindustrialization & Redevelopment

    NNSA seeking candidates to build clean-energy farm in Nevada

    The National Nuclear Security Administration wants to hear from entities interested in building a massive, 2,000-acre clean-energy farm to help power the Nevada National Security Site outside Las Vegas. In an 18-page request for qualifications published Friday, the NNSA said it will choose one or more companies to develop and construct a facility capable of […]

  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    NNSA to help fund Shine Technologies new medical isotope production facility

    The NNSA intends to grant SHINE Technologies cost-share funding to build and operate a new facility for producing the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) without the use of highly-enriched uranium, according to a March 4 filing in the Federal Register. The agency filed an unpublished version of the decision last week. SHINE received a construction permit for […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Senate passes RECA extension; Biden will sign

    The Senate on Thursday passed a bill that would extend and expand the federal legislation that financially compensates people harmed by radioactive material used to build the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The measure passed 69-30 with one senator not voting. President Joe Biden (D) on Tuesday said he would sign the bill. “The President believes we have […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Down to two members, DNFSB still seeking quorum

    The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board continues without a quorum for its role as federal safety watchdog for Department of Energy nuclear weapons facilities, and the current chair’s term expires this fall. Designed as a five-person panel, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) still has only two members. A Senate committee has approved a White House […]

  • International

    Wrap up: Hruby remarks on insider threats; Iran uranium at IAEA; Centrus bell-ringing

    Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), spoke this week at the Second International Symposium on Insider Threat Mitigation in Brussels, which the nuclear-weapons agency co-hosted with the Belgian Federal Agency for Nuclear Control. The NNSA posted Hruby’s prepared remarks online.   During the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors’ meeting […]

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