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Santa Clara, Calif. based Oklo, experienced a net loss of $28 million or $0.18 per share in its second quarter that ended June 30.  In the second quarter of 2024, Oklo had a net operating loss of $17.7 million and a $0.27 loss per share. Oklo announced its quarterly earnings on Monday Aug. 11. Oklo […]

Former South Carolina Lt. Gov. André Bauer as shut down his GOP primary challenge against Sen. Lindsey Graham, the four-term incumbent, Bauer said on website X Aug. 8. “I cannot and will not be part of a political climate that rewards deception over honesty, or ambition over unity,” Bauer wrote after campaigning against Graham for […]

An elevator for transporting radiological material within the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plutonium facility suffered “several mechanical failures” over the last few months, according to a report by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. The report from July 25 said the recent failures pertained to the doors’ interlocking system. Management at the […]

Kim Budil, director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was named to Forbes magazine’s 2025 “50 over 50” list, the lab announced Monday. The fifth annual Forbes list, released July 30, is a compilation of five months of research on women over the age of 50 who, the magazine says, “are creating their greatest professional impact” […]

Hanford Tank Waste Operations and Closure (H2C), the BWX Technologies-led liquid waste prime, suspended work for a week due to safety concerns at the former plutonium production site at Richland, Wash. “H2C initiated a week-long safety stand down, pausing non-essential operations and holding all-hands meetings with its workforce, including management, to discuss the recent spike […]

Earnings rose at NuScale Power, Corvallis, Ore. in the second quarter, which the small modular reactor developer attributed to engineering and licenses and additional services to support RoPower’s efforts to deploy a NuScale power module in Romania. Revenue for the second quarter ended on June 30 were $8.1 million, up from $1 million in the […]

The Department of Energy announced Tuesday it has selected 11 nuclear projects to partake in a pilot program to streamline the deployment of advanced reactors. In the DOE’s Tuesday press release, the agency listed these 10 companies: Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, Texas Antares Nuclear, based in Redondo Beach, Calif. Atomic Alchemy, based in Idaho […]

Amentum, a major contractor for the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, has seen little impact so far from cost-cutting efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the company said last week. “Although a limited number of our contracts for the U.S. government have been affected by DOGE and other changes in […]

Radiant Industries has recently signed an agreement with Defense Innovation Unit and Department of Air Force to mass produce microreactors at a U.S. military base by 2028. The El Segundo, Calif.-based advanced nuclear company is developing a portable high-temperature gas-cooled microreactor called Kaleidos that has a net generating capacity of one megawatt.  The contract was […]

Here are events related to nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking: August  13: Hybrid meeting: Hanford Advisory Board meetings starting at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time from Three Rivers Convention Center, 7016 W Grandridge Boulevard, Kennewick, Wash. 13: Hybrid meeting: Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board starts at 6 p.m. Eastern time from DOE […]

The Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory has failed to reach out to residents nearby concerning a powerline that would go through sacred land, a letter published Aug. 7 in the local Los Alamos Daily Post said. “This is not meaningful opportunity for engagement with those residents who will be impacted by the project’s […]

Disagreement between the Energy and Water subcommittee chair and ranking member over the topline of their appropriations bill has led to it not being released yet, according to an article by Politico E&E News. The Senate has not yet brought a version of the bill to even a subcommittee level markup. The article said the […]

The United States still leads the world in nuclear energy generation but China and Russia are seeing rapid growth in their respective nuclear fleets, according to a recent Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis. As of June 2025, the U.S. nuclear fleet of 94 operating reactors has a generating capacity of 97 gigawatts, which amounts to […]

Exchange Monitor is entering its annual August break that occurs while Congress is in recess. As a result, Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will not be published on Monday Aug. 11. It will only be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays between now and Aug. 25, at which time the schedule returns to normal. Thanks and stay […]

The state regulator for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina is satisfied workers have successfully cleaned out the high-level liquid radioactive waste from Tank 8, DOE said this week. The milestone marks the sixth tank in 13 months to receive preliminary cease waste removal designation from the South Carolina Department of […]

Earnings rose at Leidos, Reston, Va., in the second quarter, which the national security and technology company attributed to controlling expenses in a time of “uncertainty” and some new contract awards.  For this year’s second quarter, Leidos reported a net margin of 9.2% and net income of $393 million on sales of $4.25 billion, up […]

A California Democrat and a New York Republican in areas with retired reactors are having another go at passing a House of Representatives bill aimed at increasing safety oversight at nuclear power plants undergoing decommissioning. Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) recently said they would reintroduce the Increasing Nuclear Safety Protocols for Extended […]

Santa Clara, Calif. based advanced nuclear technology company Oklo will report its second quarter financial results on Aug. 11 in an earnings conference call at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Oklo, which was the first company to receive a site use permit from the Department of Energy for a commercial advanced nuclear plant, will report its […]

Earnings rose at Amentum, Chantilly, Va., during the past quarter, which the company attributed in part to the White House and congress prioritizing nuclear power and national defense.   Net earnings for the quarter ended June 27 were $10 million, or $0.04 a share, up from a $26 million loss, or a loss of $(0.29) a […]

The Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will deploy Cornelis Networks technology to power Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s high-performance computing cluster “Lynx.” The “Lynx” cluster is a supercomputer with 952 computer nodes that is part of NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing initiatives, which assesses the validity of the U.S. nuclear stockpile through […]

Chantilly, Va. Based Amentum will report quarterly financial results Wednesday conduct an earnings conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Amentum, one of the largest contractors in the Department of Energy’s weapons complex, will report results for the quarter ended around June 30. In May, Amentum reported net earnings of $4 million, or $0.02 a […]

X-Energy has awarded Clark Construction Group a $48.2-million contract for the building phase of its advanced nuclear fuel fabrication facility, TX-1, in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The contract award, encompassing Phase 2A of the facility construction, will include the completion of the core and shell of the 214,812 square foot facility, according to X-Energy’s Tuesday press […]

The Department of Energy has signed a lease with a California-based nuclear startup for reuse of 100 acres of the Paducah Site in Kentucky for a new private-sector domestic uranium enrichment facility that could employ 140 people and be worth $1.5 billion. DOE and its Office of Environmental Management announced the deal with General Matter […]

Russia “no longer considers itself bound” to a self-imposed treaty between the United States and Moscow that prohibits deploying intermediate-range missiles, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was a pact made in 1987, during the Cold War, which banned ballistic and cruise missiles launched from land with […]

Transportation Secretary and Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy confirmed in a Tuesday press conference that NASA has expedited plans for deploying a nuclear reactor on the moon. The confirmation comes after several major news outlets reported on Monday of the space agency’s plans. The reactor directive would order NASA to seek industry proposals for a […]

Earnings rose at BWX Technologies, Lynchburg, Va. in the second quarter, which the company attributed to strong performances in government operations. “We had exceptionally strong second quarter 2025 financial results driven by solid operational performance and pacing of work, particularly in Government Operations, which was complemented by robust bookings in both segments, leading to record […]