The National Nuclear Security Administration fixed some inconsistencies with the process it uses to keep track of changes to the way the agency surveys the nuclear-weapon stockpile, the Department of Energy’s inspector general wrote in a report published recently and dated Aug. 31.
The Inspector General studied the agency’s Universal Change Control process for about a year, beginning in June 2022, the internal watchdog wrote in its 10-page report.
After the release of the feature film Oppenheimer, the Army expects larger than normal crowds and waits of up to two hours for the upcoming Trinity Site open house, scheduled for Oct. 21 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The site of the world’s first nuclear explosion opens twice a year, once in spring and once in autumn. only the first 5,000 people to register are likely to see the site, the Army wrote on its website.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s public affairs office this week pulled highlights from a Washington Post story about 17 laboratory employees who were hired as extras for the Oppenheimer film.
A few employees gave the film’s production team notes about anachronistic classification marks and the impropriety of characters casually passing around props representing contaminated filter paper.
Israel will ‘act’ if Iran enriches uranium beyond a threshold of 60% U-235 by mass, an Israeli government official said this week at a conference, the Jewish News Syndicate reported.
The official, national security advisor Tzachi Hanegbi, spoke during a couterterrorism conference held at Reichman University in Herzliya, a city near Tel-Aviv on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, the conservative-leaning, pro-Israel news outlet reported.
As a safeguard against wildfires, crews for the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico started to thin out the forest in certain areas of Rendija Canyon, lab officials announced last week.
The Rendija Canyon Wildland Fire Fuels Reduction and Defensible Space Project, which should be finished in November, will create a “fuel break” across 135 acres of DOE-owned land near Rendija Canyon Road, according to the Sept. 6 press release.
The affected area includes the Los Alamos Sportsmen’s Club range area, the powerline utility corridor and an area south of the archery range in the section north of Barranca Mesa, according to the release.
A series of explosions was heard near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant last week, a team of International Atomic Energy Agency officials based at the facility reported.
The blasts point to a possible escalation of military activity in the area surrounding the nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said Sept. 8.
Just over a year after the IAEA established a permanent presence at the site to help prevent an accident there during the conflict in Ukraine, the overall situation at the facility remains “highly precarious,” Grossi said in a statement.
