Vol. 28, No. 39 
NNSA, antis, get more time to negotiate agreement after agency loses pit lawsuit
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Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle
Six companies get DOE HALEU deconversion contracts
The Department of Energy last week awarded six contracts for turning future stocks of government-owned, high-assay low-enriched uranium into forms suitable for use as nuclear reactor fuel. DOE made the awards a little less than a year after soliciting bids for… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS returned to normal operations Monday post-hurricane
Savannah River Site returned to its normal operations Monday after the site was limited to essential personnel in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, a spokesperson told the ExchangeMonitor. “Phased resumption of workers returning back to the site began [in the]… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Santa Fe commissioners call for alternatives to LANL power line placement over Pueblo land
Commissioners from Santa Fe County, N.M., objected Tuesday to a project by Los Alamos National Laboratory that would build a power line through the Caja del Rio Plateau. In a letter from Santa Fe County commissioners to Ted Wyka, manager at Los Alamos Field Office,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Judge won’t reinstate Iranian-born professor who allegedly gave Iranian student access to NNSA code
A federal judge last week did not reinstate an Iranian-born ex-professor to the University of Toledo in Ohio after the former faculty member sued the university on multiple counts of discrimination. Judge Jeffrey Helmick in the U.S. District Court for the Northern… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]
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Non-Proliferation
NNSA hosted workshop in Greece on reducing risks radiological terrorism
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s office of radiological security hosted a workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece, to showcase technologies aimed at reducing terrorism risks, the agency said Friday. Representatives and regulators from Algeria, Greece and… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view this […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
NRC considering, not committed to, establishing new export branch, chair says
As part of a review of its new responsibilities under a bill passed this year, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission might create a new branch focused on exports, or it might not, the agency’s head told media Tuesday. “We may do that, but that’s a discussion… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]
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International
Ukraine power plant lost connection to only backup powerline for 36 hours, IAEA director said
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant lost connection to the only remaining backup powerline needed to cool its six reactors, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general. According to a statement by the agency Thursday, the Zaporizhzhya… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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International
Head of security at ZNPP killed by bomb, IAEA director general said
Andrii Korotkyi, head of security at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, was killed in a car explosion, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director general Monday. “Any targeting of employees of nuclear power… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
SRS starts nonproliferation project with Japanese research reactor fuel
The H Canyon Chemical Separations Facility at Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., began dissolving nuclear material from a Japanese research reactor, according to an agency press release. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency sent plutonium fuel, or Fast Critical Assembly… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Wrap up: Missouri seeks law mitigating radioactive contamination; HASC grills Navy on faulty welds for SSBNs; deterrence org wins Nobel peace prize; glovebox contract; Obituary
Two years after a St. Louis-area school was closed following reports of radioactive contamination, Missouri lawmakers are laying groundwork for new state laws about risks from legacy nuclear-weapons, according to a statement by the Missouri House Speaker Rep. Dean… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]