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- Enviros sue NRC over proposed Diablo Canyon restart
- Holtec reports progress on Indian Point fuel transfers, negotiations with state over environmental monitoring costs
- NS Savannah, now minus reactor, to welcome visitors from the public
- Republic Services on pace to integrate US Ecology operations by end of year
- NEI plans decommissioning conference next year
- Round up: NRC weighs in on NuScale decommissioning; TikTok torched on commission devices; Vogtle 4 milestone
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- Details of new Hanford cleanup milestones may not emerge for months, feds say
- EM Field Ops boss Nelson-Jean taking NNSA infrastructure post
- With COVID vax mandates ending, 9th Circuit tables Hanford arguments
- Fluor earnings dip but CEO bullish on DOE work, Hanford
- Murray encouraged by holistic Hanford deal, lukewarm on DOE budget request
- After COVID, contractors ‘starved’ for DOE facetime
- Big public hearing on WIPP permit this summer, if deadlock between state, DOE persists
- Steelworkers seek labor deal extension for Portsmouth cleanup
- DOE changes location for planned Hanford Fire station
- Huntington Ingalls reports 1Q earnings dip from 2022
- Widespread leadership changes at Strategic Management Solutions
- Wrap Up: $$24.5M earmarked for minority grants; UCOR manager appointed to Tenn. board; longtime WIPP spokesman calls it a career
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- DOE must sign off on potential Pantex contract extensions, NNSA administrator says
- In New Mexico, NNSA stems tide of employee attrition, administrator says
- Murray encouraged by holistic Hanford deal, lukewarm on DOE budget request
- With COVID vax mandates ending, 9th Circuit tables Hanford arguments
- NS Savannah, now minus reactor, to welcome visitors from the public
- DOE changes location for planned Hanford Fire station
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- Washington state, feds agree on new Hanford cleanup milestones after years of talks
- Big public hearing on WIPP permit this summer, if deadlock between state, DOE persists
- Steelworkers seek labor deal extension for Portsmouth cleanup
- NNSA seeking tech for global system to flush out nuclear material smuggling
- NEI plans decommissioning conference next year
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- EM Field Ops boss Nelson-Jean taking NNSA infrastructure post
- Republic Services on pace to integrate US Ecology operations by end of year
- DOE, NNSA officials to testify before Senate appropriators on Wednesday
- Hanford double-shell tank nearly full, DNFSB reports
- Widespread leadership changes at Strategic Management Solutions Inc.
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- Any Hanford Integrated Tank bid protest due this week
- NNSA failed to audit millions paid to medical isotope producer, IG says
- Holtec reports progress on Indian Point fuel transfers, negotiations with state over environmental monitoring costs
- DOE cleanup branch offers $24.5M in potential funding for minority institutions
- This week
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- IWTU turns out first 18 canisters of granular waste; 100% radwaste ops by summer
- Hanford, Idaho cleanup get callouts from Granholm in Senate hearing
- N3B officially extended into April 2026
- Army Corps again finds no radiation health risk at shuttered Missouri school
- Granholm planning political speech in South Carolina; GOP looks into travel
- Second Hanford-area contractor busted for COVID loan fraud
- Churn coming for Hanford regulator in Washington state
- Wrap Up: HMIS plans power line replacement; Controlled burns used at Hanford; 222-S contractor rechristened; Green fleet grows at two EM sites; $20M issued for new school
- Correction
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 17
Read Full Issue- Delivery dates for next round of nukes get hazier in latest annual NNSA progress report
- Next Pantex prime could be on the job for 20 years, according to draft NNSA solicitation
- NNSA scrutinizing problem components behind W80-4 warhead delay
- NNSA opens public comment period on environmental review of Sandia’s future
- Honeywell reports rising earnings in Q1, though commercial aviation takes the honors
- NNSA government affairs man jumps to industry
- Wrap up: Naval reactors budget cuts; Australian arms control; NNSA university grants; Oppenheimer the movie
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- New DOE consent based siting report arrives; funding for communities on track for summer
- Manchin wants U.S. to help Saudis with nuclear power; says DOE rebuffed kingdom
- NRC board to hear enviros’ case for renewing Diablo Canyon fuel storage license
- White House sends Baran’s nomination for five more years on NRC to Senate
- Round up: U.K. nuclear waste report; Hostile op-ed against Holtec; Ex-Yucca surveyor dies
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- NNSA scrutinizing problem components behind W80-4 warhead delay
- Hanford, Idaho cleanup get callouts from Granholm in Senate hearing
- Manchin wants U.S. to help Saudis with nuclear power; says NNSA rebuffed kingdom
- N3B officially extended into April 2026
- Controlled burns, other precautions used to curb Hanford wildfire risk, DOE says
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- New DOE consent based siting report arrives; funding for communities on track for summer
- Army Corps again finds no radiation health risk at shuttered Missouri school
- Granholm planning political speech in South Carolina; GOP looks into travel
- White House sends Baran’s nomination for five more years on NRC to Senate
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- Delivery dates for next round of nukes get hazier in latest annual NNSA progress report
- NRC board to hear enviros’ case for renewing Diablo Canyon fuel storage license
- Second Hanford-area contractor busted for COVID loan fraud
- WIPP catches long-running mislabeling of small tranche of waste from Los Alamos
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- WIPP less than half full, DOE says in opposing most restrictions sought by New Mexico
- Feds still working on moving stranded Los Alamos waste out of Texas, DOE boss says
- Grout could be effective backstop to Hanford vitrification plant, says EM’s White
- Winners celebrate $45-B Hanford tank award; briefings expected soon
- IWTU turns out 7 canisters in early going
- WIPP takes in 36 shipments of TRU waste during March
- New acting policy boss appointed by DOE cleanup office
- SRS-to-WIPP down-blended waste shipments get rolling
- Perma-Fix reveals role in losing Hanford tanks team, but secures other business
- WIPP worker drops race discrimination lawsuit against contractor
- Wrap Up: Oak Ridge accident probed; S&K Moab deal sweetened; DOE picks training firm; Wash. state hires D.C. firm; SRS non-profit gets new boss; McCain honored following her death
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- DOE interim storage news imminent, official says
- Biden nominates Baran to another term at NRC
- Cardin hits Hanson on Hill about NRC morale
- Round up: Markey a hard ‘no’ on using decommissioning funds for major equipment replacement; NRC will regulate fusion power, if there is fusion power; Holtec holds on discharge to Hudson
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 16
Read Full Issue- NNSA won’t know how much 80 pits per year will cost until 2025
- Air Force initiates test firing of unarmed Minuteman III from Navy E-6 aircraft
- U.S. lawmakers reintroduce bill to prohibit presidents from igniting nuclear war
- ‘Obsolete’ Los Alamos fire alarm system repeatedly registering false alarms
- Los Alamos County proposes doubling fire department budget to cover LANL
- Wrap up: NATO head talks nukes; Livermore scientist is one of Time’s 100; DOE puts Russia on notice and more
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- NNSA won’t know how much 80 pits per year will cost until 2025
- Grout could be effective backstop to Hanford vitrification plant, says EM boss White
- NRC commissioners to testify in Senate Wednesday morning
- ECA opposes WIPP restrictions sought by New Mexico regulators
- ‘Obsolete’ Los Alamos fire alarm system repeatedly registering false alarms
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- Winners celebrate $45-B Hanford tank award; briefings expected soon
- SRS-to-WIPP down-blended waste shipments get rolling
- Los Alamos County proposes doubling fire department budget to cover LANL
- WIPP worker drops race discrimination lawsuit against contractor
- DOE taps training firm for sole source contract
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- NNSA, military nuke higher-ups set to testify before Senate strategic forces committee
- WIPP takes in 36 shipments of TRU waste during March
- Perma-Fix reveals role in losing Hanford tanks team, but secures other business
- U.S. lawmakers reintroduce bill to prohibit presidents from igniting nuclear war
- New director appointed for Savannah River community reuse group
- This Week
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- BWXT-led team lands biggest prize in nuke-cleanup world: $45B Hanford tanks contract
- IWTU begins radioactive waste operations in Idaho
- Multibillion-dollar Portsmouth bids extended another 60 days
- Expressions of interest sought on recycling nickel from DOE Portsmouth Site
- SRS transition planning going smoothly, state nuke panel told
- Washington state, DOE ponder test bed research permit, holistic talks
- Feds fast-track approach to Hanford vit plant increased costs, other problems, report finds
- Tight labor market creates headaches for SRS liquid waste contractor, DOE finds
- States, EM should talk about Twitter, report says
- Settlement talks ‘fruitful,’ but judge wants Oak Ridge vaccine case closed soon
- Wrap Up: Cleanup advisory board members sought; DOE spends $6.3M on nuke education; INL invites locals to see Oliver Stone film
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 15
Read Full Issue- Savannah River plutonium pit production facility may not be done until 2035
- NNSA needs massively more powerful computers to model modern nuclear weapons effects, report says
- Nuclear Fuel Services bags $428-million contract to enrich uranium while Y-12 modernizes
- NNSA broadens scope of weapons advisory committee
- Pantex Plant gets new defense nuclear facilities resident inspector
- CNS hiring contractors to upgrade Y-12 electrical infrastructure
- STRATCOM holds annual nuclear readiness and training exercise
- DOE extends bids on uranium hexafluoride conversion at Paducah Site
- Round Up: Air testing over Boston Marathon; Aircraft carrier defueling; NNSA grants awarded and more
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- Holtec seeks $300M for Palisades restart from Michigan
- NRC guidance on using decom funds for equipment replacement coming in ‘late May’
- Enviros sue to stop Diablo Canyon extension
- Ex-academic threatens to sue NRC over failure of 60s-era TRIGA reactor and imaging business
- DOE releases contract to evaluate bidders for reactor bailouts
- Round up: Bipartisan plea for Palisades restart; Diable Canyon advisory add; next-gen nuke kids; more
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- Washington state, DOE ponder test bed research permit, holistic talks
- Enviros sue to stop Diablo Canyon extension
- Expressions of interest sought on recycling nickel from DOE Portsmouth Site
- Ex-academic threatens to sue NRC over failure of 60s-era TRIGA reactor and imaging business
- CNS hiring contractors to upgrade Y-12 electrical infrastructure
- States, EM should talk about Twitter, report says
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- IWTU begins radioactive waste operations in Idaho
- Holtec seeks $300M for Palisades restart from Michigan
- Multibillion-dollar Portsmouth bids extended another 60 days
- State, feds could get until July for Los Alamos cleanup settlement talks
- Pantex Plant gets new defense nuclear facilities resident inspector
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- Feds fast-track approach to Hanford vit plant increased costs, other problems, report finds
- Nuclear Fuel Services bags $428-million contract to enrich uranium while Y-12 modernizes
- DOE seeks nuclear cleanup advisory board members
- Tight labor market creates headaches for SRS liquid waste contractor, DOE finds
- STRATCOM to hold annual nuclear readiness and training exercise
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- Bechtel turns to reactor builder Atwell as interim manager of WTP
- WIPP awaits NRC blessing to send problem waste container back to Savannah River
- IWTU starts running with simulated waste as prelude to rad ops
- Hanford medical provider sold, HPM confirms
- Environmental Management’s acting regulatory boss leaves for industry
- DOE formally extends Swift & Staley into mid-2024
- Salado boss optimistic about WIPP hitting 400 shipments this year
- DOE to weigh in on New Mexico’s request for quicker WIPP closure , says EM boss White
- AECL seeks pre-qualified bidders to compete for new Canadian Nuclear Labs biz
- Timeline for Sellafield silo slips due to equipment woes, U.K. agency says
- Wrap Up: Corps talks procurement; ECA grant renewed; UK authority makes moves; DOE neighbor cyber attacked;
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- NRC to stake out position on using decommissioning funds for equipment replacement
- Retooled Capito bill has nuke liability-cap extension, DOE waste reporting, NRC reforms
- Some decommissioning work at Oyster Creek delayed
- Osborne is new CFO for Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Holtec happy to help study planned Pilgrim wastewater discharge; won’t fund inquiry
- Holtec submits EPA permit mod request for Pilgrim wastewater discharge
- AECL seeks pre-qualified bidders to compete for new Canadian Nuclear Labs biz
- Round up: Senior decom managers, come on down; German power plants, shut on down; Slovenian spent fuel, come on in
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 14
Read Full Issue- NNSA Administrator wants “to scream from the mountaintop’ no future nuke testing
- Cleaning fluid caused 2015 LANL arc-flash that sent two to hospital
- NNSA and Defense Department efforts to secure nuclear material overlap, GAO finds
- Savannah River manager to take over NNSA Production Office at Pantex in May
- NNSA hiring for senior acquisition, construction management positions
- Wrap up: NNSA administrator in Sweden; AUKUS waste workforce; Sorry, no Taco Villa
