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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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- After hearing, Hanford award winner gets until Monday to defend eligibility for $45B contract
- Biden signs deficit deal; defense-nuclear programs largely spared from most cuts
- DOE investigative branch reviews potential carbon monoxide overexposure at INL
- In keeping with Ecology deal, DOE seeks better leak detection for Hanford tanks
- Centerra starts transition on new SRS security contract
- GAO wants Hanford’s high-level waste analysis vetted by outside experts
- Former No.2 DOE official under Trump tapped to lead energy trade group
- Wrap Up: House appropriator to resign; Oak Ridge reactor endorsed; Senators forming lab caucus; DOE taps US Ecology affiliate to run low-level waste database
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 22
Read Full Issue- LANL contractor cited by NNSA for series of plutonium facility safety violations in 2021
- Employees suing CNS for lost wages lose new attorneys, proceed with individual claims
- U.S. counters Russian suspension of New START by withholding key nuke data
- NNSA’s nuclear couriers to get new rolling armory, technician trailer
- Biden signs deficit deal; defense-nuclear programs largely spared from most cuts
- Centerra starts transition on new SRS security contract
- U.S. Senators form caucus dedicated to advocating for DOE labs
- CNS ‘tops out’ new high-explosives development laboratory at Pantex
- Air Force authorizes start of construction on Sentinel support facilities
- Wrap up: Hammer Time at the NIF; Livermore controlled burn; Hibbs to be new NNSA deputy admin advisor and more
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- Bill with NRC reforms, industry indemnity, DOE waste report, support for small reactors clears Senate committee
- Senate committee skips vote to reconfirm Baran to NRC after Republicans oppose
- Biden signs deficit deal; defense-nuclear programs largely spared from most cuts
- NRC advisory panel recommends approval of SMR permit at Oak Ridge
- Former No.2 DOE official under Trump tapped to lead energy trade group
- Round up: more local support for reopening Palisades; Mass. lawmaker again tries to ban Pilgrim wastewater; Constellation takes over Texas nuclear plant; ExchangeMonitor conference next week
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- House passes debt limit deal, Senate next
- Senate committee skips vote to reconfirm Baran to NRC after Republicans oppose
- Bill with NRC reforms, industry indemnity, DOE waste report, support for small reactors clears Senate committee
- In keeping with Ecology deal, DOE seeks better leak detection for Hanford tanks
- NNSA’s nuclear couriers to get new rolling armory, technician trailer
- DOE investigative branch reviews potential carbon monoxide overexposure at INL
- Air Force authorizes start of construction on Sentinel support facilities
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- After courtroom faceoff, Hanford award winner to defend eligibility for $45B contract in briefs
- DOE defense nuclear programs would escape big cuts in deficit deal
- LANL contractor cited by NNSA for series of plutonium facility safety violations in 2021
- Employees suing CNS for lost wages lose new attorneys, proceed with individual claims
- NRC advisory panel recommends approval of SMR permit at Oak Ridge
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 21
Read Full Issue- Sluggish plutonium-pit production tells allies and adversaries U.S. nuke modernization ‘not important,” expert says
- Energy Department efforts to root out insider threats still piecemeal eight years later, GAO says
- Livermore Lab, SambaNova boost computing capacity to better study nuclear-weapon physics
- In Hiroshima, G7 leaders denounce Russian nuclear rhetoric, reaffirm goal of nuclear-weapon-free world
- Nuclear materials couriers essential to NNSA mission, says deputy administrator
- House Appropriations Committee joins armed services panel in postponing budget markups
- Wrap up: Russian nukes in Belarus; IAEA director meets with Rosatom head; DOE computational fellows named and more
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- Holtec says funding fight for Palisades restart could be won or lost by July
- Idaho county’s case for INL impact payments already rejected by courts, feds say
- Company has no right to develop coastal property near Diablo Canyon, judge says
- Budget negotiations creating logjam for 2024 spending bills
- House committee easily sends Russian uranium ban to floor
- Illinois lawmakers conditionally lift ban on new nuclear-plant construction
- Round up: Mass., Holtec wastewater tests; Another Monticello leak; New SNC-Lavelin Canada lead; more
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- Courtroom showdown imminent in protest of $45B Hanford contract
- DNFSB could drop to two members later this year post-Roberson
- Big cleanup field offices all start reporting to EM-2, or EM-1 feds say
- Bechtel selects 40-year company veteran as new Hanford vitrification plant director
- Idaho county’s case for INL impact payments already rejected by courts, feds say
- IWTU now running with 100% radioactive waste, EM boss White tells board
- Hanford WTP melter heat-up could resume within weeks, White says
- National Academies sees strong case for grouting waste at Hanford; public session set for June
- Hanford area fire burns 1,300 acres before being controlled
- Wrap Up: Small nukes eyed at Portsmouth; Ex EM-1 honored; New Amentum CIO; K-25 viewing platform
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- Hanford tank winner’s registration lapse ‘not a triviality,’ feds tell court
- Hanford WTP melter heat-up could resume within weeks, White says
- Holtec says funding fight for Palisades restart could be won or lost by July
- House committee easily sends Russian uranium ban to floor
- Sluggish plutonium-pit production tells allies and adversaries U.S. nuke modernization ‘not important,” expert says
- DNFSB could drop to two members later this year post-Roberson
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- Idaho county’s case for INL impact payments already rejected by courts, feds say
- NRC to hear details about Palisades restart, Diablo Canyon extension
- Livermore Lab, SambaNova boost computing capacity to better study nuclear-weapon physics
- Company has no right to develop coastal property near Diablo Canyon, judge says
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- IWTU now running with 100% radioactive waste, EM boss White tells board
- Big cleanup field offices all start reporting to EM-2, or EM-1 feds say
- House Appropriations Committee joins armed services panel in postponing budget markups
- National Academies sees strong case for grouting waste at Hanford; public session set for June
- Illinois lawmakers conditionally lift ban on new nuclear-plant construction
- Hanford area fire burns 1,300 acres before being controlled
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- $45B Hanford tank contractor winner prepares to answer eligibility issue
- Government plans response to Butte County suit on Idaho National Lab
- Illinois lawmakers conditionally lift ban on new nuclear-plant construction
- In Hiroshima, G7 leaders denounce Russian nuclear rhetoric, reaffirm goal of nuclear-weapon-free world
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 20
Read Full Issue- Tritium-rod shipment contract extended; NNSA says other companies can do the work
- U.S. publishes nuclear weapons numbers as Russia ignores treaty obligations
- Tritium-rod irradiating Watts Bar Unit 1 reactor resumes operation following scheduled refueling
- NNSA breaks ground on new Nevada Site emergency operations center
- Savannah River citizen panel updated on salt waste, security, NNSA transition
- Wrap Up: Enviros pray to NRC to stop weapons-uranium work; G7 meets in Hiroshima; NNSA helos over Indy 500 and more
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- Combined low-level, GTCC rulemaking headed to NRC commissioners for approval in November
- NorthStar to acquire, decommission GE Hitachi’s Vallecitos reactors
- Bans on Russian uranium advance in House and Senate
- To save space, ARPA-E seeks information on transmutation of nuclear waste
- U.S., Canadian org, sign agreement to share information about nuclear waste management
- Round up: Senate committee wants report on nuke credits; Connecticut seeks NRC agreement; Enviros pray for NRC over uranium in Tennessee
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- NRC says its OK to move stranded Los Alamos waste to a WCS enclosure
- DOE to delay transition to BWXT-led tank team at Hanford pending court protest
- Contractor plans steady climb to double SWPF throughput
- Savannah River citizen panel updated on NNSA transition, saltstone disposal, security, changes in state regulator
- WIPP appears headed for best year since 2017 reopening
- Portsmouth contractor group denies liability in cancer lawsuit
- Pandemic rules over, but Hanford workers lawyers want to keep litigating COVID suit
- Oak Ridge Lab contractor makes ‘last, best’ settlement offer to COVID plaintiffs
- Wrap Up: Biz office shops for support; Oak Ridge, firm seeks new city manager; NNSS builds emergency center
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- NRC says its OK to move stranded Los Alamos waste to a WCS enclosure
- Senate committee joins House committee with uranium ban; seeks report on civil nuclear credits
- Tritium-rod shipment contract extended; NNSA says other companies can do the work
- Combined low-level, GTCC rulemaking headed to NRC commissioners for approval in November
- Pandemic rules over, but Hanford workers lawyers want to keep litigating COVID suit
- EM biz office shops around for procurement support services
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- NRC readies environmental review on stranded Los Alamos waste at WCS
- Contractor plans steady climb to double SWPF throughput
- Tritium-rod irradiating Watts Bar Unit 1 reactor resumes operation following scheduled refueling
- Uranium legislation week begins with GOP proposal to ban imports of Russian uranium
- To save space, ARPA-E seeks information on transmutation of nuclear waste
- U.S., Canadian org, sign agreement to share information about nuclear waste management
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- DOE to delay transition to BWXT-led tank team at Hanford pending court protest
- Savannah River citizen panel updated on salt waste, security, NNSA transition
- NorthStar to acquire, decommission GE Hitachi’s Vallecitos reactors
- U.S. publishes nuclear weapons numbers as Russia ignores treaty obligations
- NRC plans meeting Wednesday on possible changes GTCC, low-level waste regulation
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- In rare move, Atkins-led losing bidder skips GAO, takes DOE to court over $45B Hanford award
- GAO denies bid protest over Centerra SRS security contract
- Jacobs plans to spin off government services biz
- Proposals due by June 26 on national small biz cleanup contract
- IWTU starts running 50% radioactive waste
- BWXT earnings rise behind Hanford tanks, other government deals
- State, feds, environmental group reach accord on Hanford’s leaking tanks
- First big shipment of uranium oxide cylinders arrives at WCS from Paducah
- 84% of Moab uranium mill tailings relocated, liaison says
- Labor Department to discuss benefits for sick nuclear weapons workers at Hanford
- Wrap Up: DOE needs procurement people; SRS getting new security booths; LANL staff honored
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- NRC licenses Holtec to store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico; New Mexico pols oppose
- Republicans blast Baran as ‘impediment’ to nuclear renaissance in NRC renomination hearing
- Lower Palisades decommissioning estimate justifiable, NRC says
- Man can sue over failed imaging business with California reactor, NRC says
- BWXT to process up to twice as much uranium after nearly two tons of scrap found at Y-12
- Round up: Granholm hopeful about Palisades; Telework and morale at NRC; NM paper criticizes Congressionals over Holtec; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 19
Read Full Issue- Los Alamos plutonium-handling gloveboxes breached several times in March, April
- BWXT to process up to twice as much uranium after nearly two tons of scrap found at Y-12
- Employees suing CNS seek to dodge judge’s ultimatum, keep paycheck lawsuit alive
- House NDAA markup postponed; no make-up date
- Naval reactor builder BWXT sees shipbuilding boom in its future, amid rising earnings
- Centrus reports uptick in profits for first quarter
- Accomplice in nuclear-submarine espionage case contests 22-year sentence
- Wrap up: Sentinel equipment buys; Zaporizhzhia forced evacs; Awards at sites
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- New Mexico governor, congressionals oppose newly licensed Holtec interim storage facility
- Republicans blast Baran as ‘impediment’ to nuclear renaissance in NRC renomination hearing
- House NDAA markup postponed; no make-up date
- State, feds, environmental group reach accord on Hanford’s leaking tanks
- Labor Department to discuss benefits for sick nuclear weapons workers at Hanford
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- Rival bidder for Hanford tank contract sues DOE over $45B award
- NRC approves 40-year license for Holtec to store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico
- GAO denies bid protest over Centerra SRS security contract
- Centrus reports uptick in profits for first quarter
- Los Alamos plutonium-handling gloveboxes breached several times in March, April
- Accomplice in nuclear-submarine espionage case contests 22-year sentence
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- Jacobs to spin off government services biz in late 2024
- BWXT earnings rise behind Hanford tanks, other government deals
- CNS employees alleging lost pay face Tuesday deadline to get a new lawyer
- 84% of Moab uranium mill tailings relocated, liaison says
- Lower Palisades decommissioning estimate justifiable, NRC says