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At Savannah River Nuclear Solutions’ (SRNS) annual “Signing Day” event, 38 summer interns concluded their 12-week program by signing on to full-service opportunities with the prime contractor at Savannah River Site, according to a press release. The SRNS Internship Program, which caters to students from two-year technical colleges and four-year universities up to a doctoral […]

The international community can abandon fear of nuclear weapons by harnessing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes instead, Charles Oppenheimer wrote in Times magazine Aug. 17. Charles Oppenheimer is the grandson of the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory during the Manhattan Project and the widely-called “father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer.  Charles […]

Bechtel chief operating officer and president Craig Albert recently wrote an opinion piece in The Hill outlining the importance of executing on the current nuclear push in the United States. In light of President Donald Trump’s administration issuing four nuclear-related executive orders, a real push for nuclear energy is on the horizon due to growing […]

The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico received another 48 shipments of transuranic (TRU) waste in July, bringing its total this calendar year to 222 shipments.  Last month’s total is three more than the 45 WIPP received in July 2024, and the third highest total this year, following the 59 […]

Here are events related to nuclear matters that Exchange Monitor staff are tracking: September 10: Hybrid meeting: The DOE Site-Specific Advisory Board for the Nevada National Security Site meets starting at 4 p.m. Pacific Time at Molasky Corporate Center, 15th Floor Conference Room, 100 North City Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89106. 24: National Cleanup Workshop, […]

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved two new waste disposal panels for the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M. The DOE Office of Environmental Management said in a Monday Aug. 18 press release that EPA has approved use of replacement Panels 11 and 12 for the nation’s only underground disposal […]

In a letter to Teresa Robbins, acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Deputy Secretary of Energy James Danly said he is ordering a special study to evaluate key leadership and processes on pit production. “I have become increasingly concerned about the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) ability to consistently deliver on nuclear weapons […]

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s researchers have begun examining high burnup fuel rods manufactured by a GE Vernova company. The high burnup assemblies delivered by Global Nuclear Fuel, a GE Vernova-led venture with Hitachi, were shipped to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state after spending six years in a commercial […]

The Air Force has scrapped three town halls this month to discuss the planned LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by Northrop Grumman. Two of the town halls were scheduled for Aug. 19 and Aug. 20 in Lewistown and Conrad, Mont., respectively, to discuss Sentinel for the Air Force 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air […]

 Environmental cleanup at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge site in Tennessee will likely extend past its current schedule, a DOE site official said Wednesday Aug. 13. During a meeting of the Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB), Roger Petrie, DOE’s Federal Facilities Agreement projects manager at Oak Ridge, said the current schedule has […]

Kenneth Camplin, formerly president of the BWX Technologies’ Nuclear Services Group in Lynchburg, Va., has been appointed as the new dean of the School of Engineering at nearby school Liberty University. As president of the Nuclear Services Group from 2017 onward, Camplin oversaw commercial nuclear and technical services, as well as operations in business development […]

Amentum has appointed Shaun Jacobson to serve as its vice president of nuclear strategy and growth, the company said Wednesday.  Jacobson has more than 25 years of experience in power generation including nuclear, natural gas, and renewable energy, according to Amentum’s Wednesday press release. Jacobson announced his new role with Amentum Wednesday on LinkedIn. “What […]

Although the Department of Energy missed an August target to start making glass from low-level radioactive waste, the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant is on the brink of operation, an advisory panel for the Hanford Site heard Wednesday. “We are so close, so close to starting that thing up,” DOE’s acting manager for the Hanford […]

The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board’s (NWTRB) summer meeting on Aug. 27 in Arlington, Va. has been postponed. A new date has yet to be decided but when the new date and venue are determined it will be made available on NWTRB’s website and the Federal Register, a NWTRB spokesperson said Wednesday.  The meeting will […]

Only days after Denver International Airport announced a feasibility study for a small modular reactor, the process is being put on hold after a city council member questioned the rush.  The delay was urged by Denver City council member Stacie Gilmore who represents District 11 where the airport is located. Gilmore said she was not […]

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 […]