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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
Pantex award in June; ‘bold’ NNSA weapons budget forecast
WASHINGTON — The National Nuclear Security Administration still plans to announce the new manager of Pantex Plant in June, the head of the agency said here Wednesday. Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), reiterated the timeline during an evening Capitol Hill panel discussion and reception hosted by Bechtel National, the nongovernmental Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance and the Congressional Nuclear Security Working Group, co-chaired by Reps. Charles Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) and Bill Foster (D-Ill.). Hruby spoke alongside Kim Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., Thomas Mason, director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., and Rita Gonzales, associate laboratories director… |
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Conceptual design work can begin for federal interim storage facility after recent milestone
A project to design a federally owned and operated interim storage facility for radioactive waste reached the milestone that marks the start of conceptual design work, the Department of Energy said Wednesday. The Federal Consolidated Interim Storage Facility project “recently”… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
WIPP takes in 54 shipments during its first full month post-outage
The Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., received 54 shipments of defense-related transuranic waste during April, according to the disposal facility’s public website. April marked the first full month of shipments since the Waste Isolation Pilot… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Nevada’s U.S. Senators file new bill to kill Yucca Mountain, roll back designation as repository
Amid her campaign for a second term, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) on Tuesday filed a bill that would if enacted remove Yucca Mountain’s designation as a nuclear waste repository. The bill would also terminate the not-quite-dead Yucca Mountain licensing proceeding… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
DOE to award National Training Center management contract ‘by August’
The Department of Energy said it is still reviewing the latest small business proposals it got to manage the National Training Center in New Mexico and planned an award no sooner than August. In 2023, three small businesses protested the… |
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