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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Senate narrowly confirms Marzano to NRC; cements Democratic control for most of Trump admin
The Senate on Thursday narrowly approved President Joe Biden’s (D) nominee to fill the last open spot on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The nominee, Matthew Marzano, made it through 50-45, with five Senators not voting. He needed the support of a majority of voting Senators and got it, ensuring that for most of the second term of President-elect Donald Trump (R), Democrats will have a majority on the NRC. With five Senators not voting, Marzano was confirmed over the opposition of all the chamber's voting Republicans, plus Sen. Krysten Sinema (I-Ariz.), the former Democrat who did not run for reelection but caucuses with Democrats. Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.), another former… |
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Weapons Complex Morning Briefing |
Follow-up protest filed over Portsmouth/Paducah contract award
Mission Operations Alliance, a limited liability corporation, has filed a second bid protest with the Government Accountability Office over the Department of Energy’s $2.3-billion award to an Atkins-led group at former uranium enrichment sites in Ohio and Kentucky. The latest… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
N3B has final two-year option picked up at Los Alamos
The Department of Energy’s legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is having its final two-year option picked up by DOE’s Office of Environmental Management, the Huntington Ingalls Industries-led venture said Thursday. Newport News Nuclear… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Lawsuit that banned commercial storage of spent nuclear fuel let antinuclear org run wild in court, Holtec tells SCOTUS
An antinuclear group got a free pass to press its case against interim storage in a court it should have been locked out of, Holtec International wrote Monday in a Supreme Court brief. The company’s friend-of-the-court brief is part of… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Analysis: 2025 defense bill keeps spending close to request; host of policy tweaks for NNSA
The 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which the House passed on Wednesday, would set the National Nuclear Security Administration’s spending cap at $24.9 billion for the fiscal year. The number, hashed out last weekend behind closed doors by a bicameral… |
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