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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 30 No. 18
Read Full Issue- Murray questions pit master schedule, Beck says LANL pits will triple by end of year
- Senate E&W chair questions two-site plutonium pit solution
- White House again seeking $45 million for DNFSB
- BWXT wins $1.4 billion in naval nuclear propulsion contracts
- Earnings up at BWXT due to opps in nuclear, PCG acquisition
- HII CEO says submarine contracts expected in second quarter
- Centrus sees mixed first quarter earnings to start off 2026
- Russia maintains largest nuclear weapons stockpile, report says
- USAF to modify two B-52s to carry F130 engines this year
- IAEA: drone strike hits Zaporizhzhia laboratory
- HASC’s Wittman sees ‘challenging’ push for $350B in reconciliation funds
- Fluor earnings rise, revenue down in first quarter 2026
- Wrap up: Ted Turner dies at 87; House appropriator includes nuclear triad protection in bill; Jay Tilden new exec at NENSC; Bechtel works with unions on nuclear power projects; more
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- Murray questions pit master schedule, Beck says LANL pits will triple by end of year
- White House again seeking $45 million for DNFSB
- HII CEO says submarine contracts expected in second quarter
- Centrus sees mixed first quarter earnings to start off 2026
- GE Vernova, Blue Energy to collaborate for ‘gas-plus-nuclear power plant’
- Legacy Management scientist, engineer promoted
- Fermi America denies former CEO’s special meeting for shareholders
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- Senate E&W chair questions two-site plutonium pit solution
- Eldercare for old facilities costing EM more nowadays, GAO says
- Final SRS, Hanford cleanups remain far into future
- USAF to modify two B-52s to carry F130 engines this year
- NRC accepts Radiant’s R-50 microreactor factory application for review
- Brookfield, The Nuclear Company’s new joint venture company to lead V.C. Summer project
- Westinghouse brings in Poirier to lead global operating plants business
- Bechtel, building trades group focus on nuclear training
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- California lawmakers backtrack on removing state nuclear ban
- Earnings up at BWXT due to opps in nuclear, PCG acquisition
- Russia maintains largest nuclear weapons stockpile, report says
- Canada to release new nuclear strategy this year
- HASC’s Wittman sees ‘challenging’ push for $350B in reconciliation funds
- Fluor reports on selling NuScale shares
- Fluor Energy Solutions adding experienced VP
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- Hanford crews remove waste from 23rd old underground tank
- Sister utilities in Kentucky team up with X-Energy to explore SMR deployment
- General Dynamics posts strong first quarter led by shipbuilding
- Fermi America fires former CEO Neugebauer from company
- IAEA: drone strike hits Zaporizhzhia laboratory
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 30 No. 17
Read Full Issue- NNSA Williams: plan to hire 100 federal employees across enterprise
- USAF examining software, construction competition for Sentinel program
- Northrop Grumman sells USAF one B-21 test aircraft
- Electric Boat gets first AUKUS contract to support allied subs
- Y-12 says it meets lithium production goal
- Navy pushes billions to buy first battleship in 2028 with aggressive schedule
- IAEA commemorates Chernobyl 40th anniversary
- Defense, energy secretaries among those evacuated from press dinner
- NMED proposal to revamp WIPP permit sharpens tensions over LANL cleanup
- Carlsbad crowd backs WIPP, pans permit changes sought by state
- Wrap up: Genesis Mission deadline now May 1; HII signs new AI MOU; Amentum taps two new execs; Work crews make headway on SRS D Area cleanup
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- Carlsbad crowd backs WIPP, pans permit changes sought by state
- NMED proposal to revamp WIPP permit sharpens tensions over LANL cleanup
- Justification offers details of $8.2 billion EM request
- DOE eyes artificial intelligence to help nuclear cleanup; other budget notes
- EM recycling program would have access to Advanced Test reactor fuel
- Amentum taps two new executives
- North Wind inks Army Corps biz
- Defense, energy secretaries among those evacuated from press dinner
- Wrap Up: Genesis Mission deadline now May 1; Work crews make headway on SRS D Area cleanup; Mullis becomes senior VP at UCOR
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- NRC to debut long-awaited microreactor licensing process
- Air Force picks three companies to deploy microreactors at military bases
- Fuel reprocessing licensing pathway in the works, NRC commissioners says
- DOE makes first round of selections for Launch Pad initiative
- Louisiana makes expansion plans for nuclear manufacturing
- NRC issues subsequent license renewal to Robinson plant in year’s time
- DOE issues RFI to inquire more about space reactor capabilities
- St. Lucie Nuclear Plant gets NRC nod to operate for 20 more years
- Westinghouse picks Sumner as CEO
- X-Energy becomes a public company
- Chernobyl at 40: The World’s Worst Nuclear Power Accident and Where It Stands Now
- Round Up: Genesis Mission deadline now May 1; NRC begins Westinghouse AP1000 design update review; TVA board taps Skaggs as TVA interim CEO and more
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- NNSA Williams: plan to hire 100 federal employees across enterprise
- Justification offers details of $8.2 billion EM request
- Y-12 says it meets lithium production goal
- DOE makes first round of selections for Launch Pad initiative
- St. Lucie Nuclear Plant gets NRC nod to operate for 20 more years
- Louisiana makes expansion plans for nuclear manufacturing
- North Wind inks Army Corps biz
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- Fuel reprocessing licensing pathway in the works, NRC commissioners says
- Northrop Grumman sells USAF one B-21 test aircraft
- NRC issues subsequent license renewal to Robinson plant in year’s time
- EM recycling program would have access to Advanced Test Reactor fuel
- Electric Boat gets first AUKUS contract to support allied subs
- Amentum taps two new executives
- Carlsbad crowd backs WIPP, pans permit changes sought by state
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- Air Force picks three companies to deploy microreactors at military bases
- X-Energy becomes a public company
- Navy pushes billions to buy first battleship in 2028 with aggressive schedule
- DOE issues RFI to inquire more about space reactor capabilities
- Work crews make headway on SRS D Area cleanup
- Westinghouse picks Sumner as CEO
- IAEA commemorates Chernobyl 40th anniversary
- Mullis becomes senior VP at UCOR
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- NRC to debut long-awaited microreactor licensing process
- Senate appropriations to hear testimony on NNSA fiscal 2027 budget
- USAF examining software, construction competition for Sentinel program
- TVA board taps Skaggs as TVA interim CEO
- Defense, energy secretaries among those evacuated from press dinner
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- NMED seeks to modify WIPP permit; mandate more Los Alamos shipments
- DOE offices issue nuclear recycling solicitations
- WTP early glassmaking to hit full stride by 2028
- Hanford ready for ‘breakout year,’ Walsh tells Senate Armed Services panel
- Washington senators, Wright spar over impact of Hanford budget cuts
- Centrus chooses Geiger Brothers as construction contractor for Piketon expansion
- Lawmakers request briefing by DOE on 10 missing scientists
- DOE Legacy Management boss cites limits of natural attenuation at uranium sites
- Wrap Up: DOE seeks to beef up fuel supply chain; Los Alamos works with firms on AI; Idaho takes Penn State used fuel; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 30 No. 16
Read Full Issue- ‘There’s a lot I can buy for $7 billion,’ Moulton says of NNSA hike
- Williams: W80-5 ‘ahead,’ while SLCM-N not in fiscal 2027 budget, will be in fiscal 2028
- Environmentalists: future pit production not to ‘maintain’ stockpile
- Despite trillion dollar defense topline, Sentinel and B-21 receive cuts, Air Force explains
- EnergySec stresses importance of NNSS and non-explosive tests as Lee presses for funding
- Sentinel cost estimate to be provided this summer
- Sen. Fischer says ‘listen to the scientists’ but be ready to test weapons
- Beck to deliver plan for $3.1B NNSA reconciliation funds in next 30 days
- Energysec says DOE nuclear experts involved in Iran negotiations
- Lawmakers request briefing by DOE on 10 missing scientists
- Centrus chooses Geiger Brothers as construction contractor for Piketon expansion
- BWXT to buy Precision Components Group
- Wrap up: Army nuclear chief on admin leave; Phelan abruptly out of Navy; LATA promotes new VP; more
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- DOE offices issue nuclear recycling solicitations
- Feds seek to beef up nuclear supply chain by 2033
- EnergySec defends DOE Nuclear Energy budget request
- House Democrats continue to question NRC independence
- TerraPower starts nuclear construction for Wyoming reactor
- Wright offers briefing to senator on reactor fast-tracking
- Centrus chooses Geiger Brothers as construction contractor for Piketon expansion
- Fermi America’s CEO and CFO exit within days of each other
- New York to select a site for an advanced nuclear plant this year
- NRC public input on Duane Arnold restart license amendment requests
- Kairos Power breaks ground for salt-cooled reactor
- Round Up: Oklo, NVIDIA, LANL team up; NuScale’s to report earnings May 7; University of Wyoming issues nuclear guides; Oklo makes board, management changes
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- ‘There’s a lot I can buy for $7 billion,’ Moulton says of NNSA hike
- EnergySec stresses importance of NNSS and non-explosive tests as Lee presses for funding
- EnergySec defends DOE Nuclear Energy budget request
- Williams: W80-5 ‘ahead,’ while SLCM-N not in fiscal 2027 budget, will be in fiscal 2028
- House Democrats continue to question NRC independence
- Sentinel cost estimation to be provided this summer
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- Lawmakers request briefing by DOE on 10 missing scientists
- Energysec says DOE nuclear experts involved in Iran negotiations
- Wright offers briefing to senator on reactor fast-tracking
- Cantwell, Wright spar over impact of Hanford budget cuts
- Fermi America’s CEO and CFO exit within days of each other
- Kairos Power breaks ground for salt-cooled reactor
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- David Beck to deliver plan for $3.1B NNSA reconciliation funds in next 30 days
- Hanford ready for ‘breakout year,’ Walsh tells Senate panel
- Centrus chooses Geiger Brothers as construction contractor for Piketon expansion
- Sen. Fischer says ‘listen to the scientists’ but be ready to test weapons
- NRC commissioners to testify before House panel on 2027 budget request
- BWXT to buy Precision Components Group
- Oklo makes board, management changes
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 30 No. 15
Read Full Issue- EnergySec: Los Alamos “actually manufacturing pits,” goal of 100 in admin, 80 per year by 2030
- After settlement, NNSA releases draft EIS for pit production
- Trump says Iran handing over uranium after U.S.-Iran talks reach stalemate
- Solid rocket motors in production for first 5 Sentinel flight tests
- Nakhleh becomes deputy director for weapons at Los Alamos lab
- Lockheed Martin wins near billion-dollar Trident II contract mod
- IAEA confirms North Korea is expanding nuclear complex
- Report advises Air Force to rebuild strategic attack capacity
- Woman pleads guilty to stealing $54K of Savannah River Site pension money
- Post-outage, WIPP receives 25 shipments in March
- Wrap up: Swalwell resignation; Another HII MOU for AI-shipbuilding; Trump trillion-dollar defense budget ‘new normal’; Another state removes cesium irradiators; more
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- Wright: DOE got responses from 28 states for nuclear hubs
- White House lays groundwork for the 2030 moon reactor mission
- EnergySec touts DOE nuclear energy loans
- Feasibility work ongoing at V.C. Summer ahead of $2.7B Investment
- Republican senators push for expanded DOE role in nuclear deployment
- NRC issues two rules on streamlining environmental review process
- DOE NE mismanaged the Carbon Free Power Project, OIG says
- EIA sees slow growth for nuclear by 2050 barring new tech
- DOE looks to invest in nuclear fusion office
- DOE, INL open up microreactor test bed
- Round Up: LLNL partners with startup for fusion R&D; Japan approves preliminary repository study; Swalwell resignation; Cruise lines to consider nuclear power
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- Wright says Hanford budget haircut won’t slow ongoing glass making
- Post-outage, WIPP receives 25 shipments in March.
- Nuclear consolidation continues as EnergySolutions buys WMG
- EnergySolutions picks Drom to manage federal support biz
- Local newspaper editorial takes aim at DOE budget request for Hanford
- Woman pleads guilty to stealing $54K of Savannah River Site pension money
- Wrap Up: DOE cites Moab tailings work; Los Alamos lab promotes exec; Japan looks at island for waste; nuclear cruising; more
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- EnergySec: Los Alamos “actually manufacturing pits,” goal of 100 in admin, 80 per year by 2030
- Wright: DOE got responses from 28 states for nuclear hubs
- Wright says Hanford budget haircut won’t slow ongoing glass making
- IAEA confirms North Korea is expanding nuclear complex
- Post-outage, WIPP receives 25 shipments in March
- EIA sees slow growth for nuclear by 2050 barring new tech
- Republican senators push for expanded DOE role in nuclear deployment
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- White House lays groundwork for the 2030 moon reactor mission
- NRC issues two rules on streamlining environmental review process
- Solid rocket motors in production for first 5 Sentinel flight tests
- Local newspaper editorial takes aim at DOE budget request for Hanford
- DOE looks to invest in nuclear fusion office
- U.S.-Iran talks reach stalemate over uranium enrichment
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- Budget hearing on DOE this week features EnergySec testimony
- Feasibility work ongoing at V.C. Summer ahead of $2.7B Investment
- Report advises Air Force to rebuild strategic attack capacity
- EnergySolutions picks Drom to manage federal support biz
- Woman pleads guilty to stealing $54K of Savannah River Site pension money
- Kaptur announces largest DOE award for nuclear workforce training initiative
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- DOE request touts EM re-development; WIPP among few sites tapped for more money in 2027
- Energy Capital Partners to acquire EnergySolutions again
- White House seeks $7.2B for Defense Cleanup line item
- Murray dubs Trump budget ‘slap in the face’ to Hanford
- Savannah River expects to wind up liquid waste work by 2041
- First vitrified glass waste goes into Hanford disposal facility
- DOE seeks $200M for Legacy Management in fiscal 2027
- Jessica Kunkle to lead NNSA Office of Infrastructure
- Wrap Up: House turns attention to budget; SRS RFP bidders get more time; Carlsbad deputy sought; DOE hubs draw big response; TVA and other job news; SRS deals with golf traffic
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- Multiple states respond to DOE’s nuclear lifecycle hub inquiry
- Energy Capital Partners to repurchase EnergySolutions
- White House proposes slight cuts and changes to DOE NE
- NRC proposes new rule for DOE, Pentagon-authorized reactors
- NRC releases final SEIS for Clinch River SMR project
- Antares receives DOE approval for pilot reactor safety analysis
- BWXT works with NRC to license new nuclear facility
- Fluor joins X-Energy to work on Texas SMR project
- NANO Nuclear seeks microreactor construction permit at university
- TVA CEO Moul to retire this summer
- Lummis seeks to codify Trump nuclear orders
- NRC renews Diablo Canyon’s license for 20 more years
- DOE NE awards nearly $50 million for a new nuclear workforce development initiative
- Round Up: Westinghouse submits AP1000 design revision; DOE EDF issues $263 million loan to medical isotope project; Air Force, DIU picks bases for microreactors; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 30 No. 14
Read Full Issue- NNSA budget increase driven by weapons activities, no nuclear testing line item
- Savannah River RFP deadline extended 2 weeks
- SASC head Dem won’t “rubber stamp a bloated, undisciplined budget’
- New Mexico watchdog groups call pit budget increase ‘out of control’
- Jessica Kunkle to lead NNSA Office of Infrastructure
- Senate arms control Dems reintroduce bill on Saudi nuclear agreement
- UPF tunnel milestone reached at Y-12
- BWXT works with NRC to license new nuclear facility
- Air Force, DIU picks Buckley and Malmstrom bases for microreactors
- Trump announces two week ceasefire in Iran on social media
- WIPP one of few EM sites selected for more money in DOE 2027 request
- Wrap up: House appropriations panel to review DOE budget; Bill to codify nuclear energy executive orders; NRC to license DOE, Pentagon reactors; Golf traffic near SRS; more
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- NRC releases final SEIS for Clinch River SMR project
- Air Force, DIU picks Buckley and Malmstrom bases for microreactors
- First vitrified glass waste goes into Hanford disposal facility
- Trump announces two week ceasefire in Iran on social media
- Murray dubs Trump budget ‘slap in the face’ to Hanford
- New Mexico watchdog groups call pit budget increase ‘out of control’
- NANO Nuclear seeks microreactor construction permit at university
- Antares receives DOE approval for pilot reactor safety analysis
- House Appropriations schedules DOE budget hearing
- Golf fans could complicate SRS commutes this week
