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- Fight over $45B Hanford tank contract could end up back in federal court
- Honeywell sells its stake in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
- DOE suspends work at Hanford’s 324 building as more contamination found
- Feds dispute state power to require decontamination showers at Hanford disposal site
- DOE starts market research from scratch on new Paducah landlord contract
- Wrap Up; Org chart changes at West Valley; governors group gets grant; Westinghouse files papers on microreactors
- Correction
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- IAEA officials find no mines or explosives at Europe’s largest, embattled nuclear power plant
- Honeywell sells stake in Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
- IAEA gives blessing to Fukushima plan to discharge treated water off Japan coast
- Westinghouse seeks microreactor design approval with Canada, NRC
- National Governors group receives DOE grant to work on nuclear cleanup issues
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- DOE suspends work at Hanford’s 324 building as more contamination found
- NRC down to four; Baran’s term lapses after Senate runs out the clock
- Savannah River hiring logistics specialists for large construction project
- DOE starts market research from scratch on new Paducah landlord contract
- DOE appoints co-deputy directors at West Valley
- Correction
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 26
Read Full Issue- Los Alamos wants to speed glovebox buying, widen supplier base
- New WIPP permit prioritizes legacy waste over incoming flood from pit production
- NNSA plans two subcritical explosive tests at Nevada in fiscal 2024
- Senate committee’s defense bill in line with House committee’s; $24B for nukes
- Reactor supply okay ahead of Navy’s historic boat-building boom, admiral says
- Wrap up: Sandia remote work; Pantex and Y-12 awards; bureaucratic musical chairs; ‘Barbenheimer’ and more
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- New Mexico, DOE strike deal on new WIPP permit
- Acting boss Ike White hits work anniversary at EM
- DOE resumes long-delayed heatup of melter at Hanford vit plant
- Longtime fed returns to DOE cleanup office from NRC to work on ‘clean energy’
- Portsmouth union rep warns of staffing crunch; says no labor deal yet ahead of DOE award
- Deadline extended on DOE expression of interest for cleaning Portsmouth nickel
- Yuletide RFP possible for next phase of West Valley cleanup
- FUSRAP funding drops to $200M in fiscal 2024 under bill passed by House Appropriations
- Longtime fed Hendrickson, now working as Canadian nuke lab exec
- IWTU has converted 21,000 gallons of waste so far, DOE says
- Hawley seeks oversight hearing on Granholm financial holdings
- Wrap Up: Hot, hazy weather week at some sites; ‘Soft skills’ training set for WIPP bosses; EnergySolutions gets new CFO
- Correction
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- Michigan legislature approves $150M for Palisades restart
- Senate leaves town without voting on Baran for NRC; commissioner’s term expires Friday
- NRC board should decide fate of environmentalist blockade of Diablo Canyon fuel facility this summer
- Comments due in August for NRC guidance on equipment replacements with trust fund dollars
- Ohio pol gets 20 years for nuclear bribery scheme
- New CFO at EnergySolutions
- Longtime fed Hendrickson, now working as Canadian nuke lab exec
- Hawley seeks oversight hearing on Granholm financial holdings
- Round-up: Anti-Yucca NDDA; anti-Palisades letter; new company lawyer at Centrus; nuclear maternity shoot at INL; more
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- NNSA plans two subcritical explosive tests at Nevada in fiscal 2024
- Portsmouth union rep warns of staffing crunch; says no labor deal yet ahead of DOE award
- Antis tell Michigan lawmakers not to fund Palisades restart
- Hawley seeks oversight hearing on Granholm financial holdings
- NuScale stock craters
- Correction
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- New Mexico, DOE strike deal on new WIPP permit
- Los Alamos wants to speed glovebox buying, widen supplier base
- NRC board should decide fate of environmentalist blockade of Diablo Canyon fuel facility this summer
- Ohio pol to be sentenced for nuclear bribery scheme
- Yuletide RFP possible for next phase of West Valley cleanup
- Deadline extended on DOE expression of interest for cleaning Portsmouth nickel
- DOE plans ‘soft skills’ coaching for Carlsbad bosses
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- DOE resumes long-delayed heatup of melter at Hanford vit plant
- Comments due in August for NRC guidance on equipment replacements with trust fund dollars
- Reactor supply okay ahead of Navy’s historic boat-building boom, admiral says
- Acting boss Ike White hits work anniversary at EM
- Excessive heat warnings in place around WCS, WIPP
- New CFO at EnergySolutions
- Correction
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- House appropriators want to rearrange Nuclear Energy office’s funding in 2024 spending bill
- Independent nuclear agencies would get requested budgets under House committee’s bill
- NY Gov undecided on bill banning Indian Point wastewater discharges
- EnergySolutions sees Kewaunee as potential home to new nuclear generation
- NAC buys Niagara, sets up Canadian subsidiary
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 26 No. 25
Read Full Issue- Thirty pits a year by 2030 or sooner; first pit in 2024, Los Alamos weapons chief says
- House Appropriators approve more money for NNSA pits; take from research, nonproliferation
- House Committee nixes plan to repeal binding pit-production targets; authorizes $24B for NNSA
- Employees suing over lost wages restate case against CNS, again seek class-action status
- Honeywell dinged for conducting firearms training at too-hot Kansas City firing range
- Wrap up: NNSA at P5 meeting; Hruby at test ban con; Minimal DOE impact after cyber attack
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- House Apps sends $8.3B DOE nuclear cleanup plan to full chamber
- Hanford grout test advances, DNFSB chair wants full board
- With Los Alamos contract extension, N3B management team overhauled, Lebak returns to HII
- DOE small biz Q&A includes details on Santa Susana work; bids due in July
- WIPP receives 28 shipments during May
- Natural attenuation favored by DOE for groundwater in parts of Oak Ridge uranium enrichment area
- Looking for work? Cleanup sites could hire 40,000 or more in 5 years
- Wrap Up: White awaits SRS report; DOE suffered little impact from cyberattack; NAC buys Canadian biz
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- House Committee nixes plan to repeal binding pit-production targets; authorizes $24B for NNSA
- NY Gov undecided on bill banning Indian Point wastewater discharges
- With Los Alamos contract extension, N3B management team overhauled, Lebak returns to HII
- House committee’s NDAA has $7B-plus for defense environmental
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- House armed services marking up 2024 authorization bill Wednesday with small funding boost for NNSA
- EnergySolutions sees Kewaunee as potential home to new nuclear generation
- Employees suing over lost wages restate case against CNS, again seek class-action status
- DOE small biz Q&A includes details on Santa Susana work; bids due in July
- Looking for work? Cleanup sites could hire 40,000 or more in 5 years
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- WIPP receives 28 shipments during May
- New York lawmakers return to Albany to weigh Indian Point wastewater ban
- Natural attenuation favored by DOE for groundwater in parts of Oak Ridge uranium enrichment area
- NAC buys Niagara, sets up Canadian subsidiary
- Honeywell dinged for conducting firearms training at too-hot Kansas City firing range
- This week
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 24
Read Full Issue- Draft 2024 defense authorization bill would block W76-2 retirement, gate NNSA admin’s travel
- Ukrainian dam breach threatens cooling water supply to Europe’s largest nuclear plant
- NRC gives Centrus green light for high assay low-enriched uranium demo
- House’s draft DOE budget has small boost for nuclear weapons modernization
- Livermore, Sandia complete second temperature test of W80-4 warhead
- Wrap up: No TikTok at DOE; NNSA’s sketchy cyber security; global nuke spending and more
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- Waste storage before new plants; more public input for decommissioning, House Dems tell NRC
- On second try, Senate committee approves Baran for five more years at NRC
- NRC would escape spending cuts in FY24 under Republican spending bill
- New York lawmakers could soon return to Albany to ban Indian Point wastewater discharges
- Round up: SONGS decommissioning progress; Machin/Risch nuke export bill; DeSantis wants dump says Trump; more
- Correction and Clarification
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- Judge blocks $45B Hanford contract award; calls it ‘improper’
- DOE budget bill keeping EM at $8.3B, halting Justice40, heads to full Appropriations Committee
- Hanford COVID suit ends with a whimper; ORNL case revived
- Idaho County says DOE failed to assess impact of INL spent fuel storage
- WIPP, DOE hit in international cyberattack
- House NDAA draft allows DNFSB budget of $47M; House appropriators say $45M
- New Mexico wants more monitoring, faster cleanup of lab’s chromium plume
- North Wind CEO leaving by year’s end
- Comments period could start this fall on Santa Susana DOE groundwater cleanup
- Wrap Up:WCS faces 2024 permit renewal; experts study nuke war’s enviro impact; DOE awards $2M grant to Paducah chamber
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- Draft DOE budget would keep EM at $8.3B, halt Justice40
- House Energy and Water panel calls for boosting DOE defense spending, nuke modernization
- NRC would escape spending cuts in FY24 under Republican spending bill released Wednesday
- On second try, Senate committee approves Baran for five more years at NRC
- House NDAA draft allows DNFSB budget of $47M; House appropriators say $45M
- Waste storage before new plants; more public input for decommissioning, House Dems tell NRC
- NRC gives Centrus green light for high assay low-enriched uranium demo
- Publication Notice
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- Judge blocks $45B Hanford contract award; calls it ‘improper,’
- All five NRC commissioners summoned to House for hearing on Wednesday
- Nuclear weapon programs receive modest budget boost in House Armed Services defense bill
- New Mexico wants more monitoring, faster cleanup of lab’s chromium plume
- No deal! Oak Ridge lab vax plaintiffs resume legal fight
- North Wind CEO leaving by year’s end
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- Court dismisses lawsuit over Hanford liquid-waste award; details still sealed
- House strategic forces markup could again halt potential W76 retirement, limit Hruby’s travel until reports are in
- Senate committee to vote on Baran’s renomination to NRC: take two
- New York lawmakers could soon return to Albany to ban Indian Point wastewater discharges
- Ninth Circuit will rule on Hanford employees COVID suit without oral arguments
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- Holtec having ‘conversations’ with potential Palisades operators
- Thirteen groups split $26 million in DOE funds to help agency define ‘consent based siting’
- Disposal pros critique low-level waste compact system, license reciprocity at conference
- Antinukers want to hurry up lawsuit against Diablo Canyon restart
- With hope for wastewater ban fading in New York, state lawmakers, antinukers pressure gov
- EnergySolutions eyes state approval for DUF6 disposal in 2024
- NRC chair visits Diablo Canyon as commission works to help keep plant on
- DOE drops draft solicitations for big HALEU contracts
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- DOE plans to provide Texas timeline for moving WCS stranded TRU this month
- Next move up to judge in protest of $45B Hanford tank waste contract
- State officials conditionally onboard with grouting of Hanford low-level waste
- WIPP could start operating new ventilation system as early as 2024, Carlsbad boss says
- Waste package stuck at WIPP parking lot, gets NRC greenlight for return to Savannah River
- August groundbreaking set for new Oak Ridge landfill
- EnergySolutions eyes state approval for DUF6 disposal in 2024
- After some upkeep, IWTU back operating this week
- Scenes from the RadWaste Summit 2.0: visiting the test site, hiring woes, COVID reminiscing and more
- Wrap Up: Feds warned on dangerous air quality; Oak Ridge teams with Tennessee Tech; Longenecker hires ex-Bechtel exec
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 23
Read Full Issue- Air Force Chief, future top U.S. general, says Sentinel missile on track for 2023 first flight
- NNSA HQ consolidating East Coast IT infrastructure
- Navy, National Guard brief South Carolina officials on Savannah River’s national security role
- NDAA back on track after deficit deal, markups next week
- Wrap up: OST needs medics; Russia nukes in Belarus; Hazy days for DOE HQ; more
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- DOE plans to provide Texas timeline for moving WCS stranded TRU this month
- WIPP could start operating new ventilation system as early as 2024, Carlsbad boss says
- State officials conditionally onboard with grouting of Hanford low-level waste
- Waste package stuck at WIPP parking lot, gets NRC okay for return to Savannah River
- Disposal pros critique low-level waste compact system, license reciprocity at conference
- NNSA HQ consolidating East Coast IT infrastructure
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- Justice Department asks court to send $45B Hanford contract dispute back to DOE
- Texas expecting DOE timeline soon on stranded Los Alamos waste
- Antinukers want to hurry up lawsuit against Diablo Canyon restart
- With hope for wastewater ban fading in New York, state lawmakers, antinukers pressure gov
- August groundbreaking set for new Oak Ridge landfill
- NNSA human resources chief to take over defense nuclear security
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