Sellafield Awards £50 Million Canister Contract to Metalcraft
Kenneth Fletcher
WC Monitor
5/15/2015
Sellafield Limited has awarded a contract worth up to £50 million ($78 million) to Metalcraft for providing high integrity stainless steel nuclear…
Studsvik, a Sweden-based nuclear technology company, is getting a new chief executive officer, the company announced Monday.
The Studsvik board of directors appointed Stefan Håkansson, currently a senior executive with Öresundskraft, as president and CEO effective…
Finnish spent fuel management company Posiva Oy was granted an operating license on Oct. 22 for the encapsulation and its final disposal facility, Onkalo, for spent nuclear fuel in Olkiluoto, Finland, the company said.
The decision was approved by the government…
The Pentagon said Monday it picked the USS Colorado (SSN-788) to be the first U.S. Navy Virginia-class attack submarine assigned to Submarine Rotation Force West (SRF-West), marking the next step in the AUKUS submarine process, starting in late 2027.
SRF-West aims to help Australia prepare to ultimately operate, maintain and support its own nuclear-powered and conventionally-armed SSNs. Australia will start by hosting a rotational presence of up to four U.S. SSNs and one United Kingdom Astute-class attack submarine located at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia. This will expand the maintenance and sustainment infrastructure for AUKUS partners in the region.
“The selection of USS Colorado (SSN 788) as the first submarine assigned to SRF-West in 2027 marks a significant milestone for AUKUS Pillar I and is a decisive step in strengthening collective deterrence in the Pacific,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Australian Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Rochard Marles and U.K. Secretary of State for Defense West Streeting, said in a joint statement.
The deployment of the Colorado is the next early step under AUKUS Pillar I, leading into the U.S. selling three to five Virginia-class attack submarines to Australia in the 2030s. Later, Australia plans to ultimately build its own SSN-AUKUS boats in the 2040s while sharing a design with the U.K. Royal Navy.
This comes after the AUKUS defense ministers said in May that Australia’s 2030s submarine purchases would exclusively consist of used submarines rather than the previously planned mix of new and used boats.
The government officials said this comes ahead of an upcoming third U.S. submarine maintenance period later this week, when a U.S. Virginia-class submarine will perform maintenance at Stirling to further demonstrate the host country;s growing ability to sustain allied submarines.
Exchange Monitor affiliate Defense Daily first published a version of this story.
The United States Navy has selected its Naval Weapons Stations in Crane, Ind. to support large-scale advanced nuclear power generation at the naval installation.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao announced on Oct. 28 at the 5th annual Northeast Indiana Defense…
Betty Huck has taken over as manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Savannah River Field Office, overseeing more than $2.9 billion in annual contracts at the South Carolina site, according to a Nov. 2 press release.
Huck succeeds Michael Mikolanis…
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is scheduled to conduct low-altitude helicopter flights Nov. 3 to Nov. 5 over South Florida, the agency said in an email last week.
The agency’s Aerial Measuring System, radiation-sensing technology that flies…
Fairbanks Morse Defense last week broke ground on a $60 million manufacturing facility that will increase production on Virginia-class naval propulsion components funded in part from international AUKUS funds.
The company on Oct. 20 broke ground on the third Center…
