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Senators ‘concerned’ about U.S. uranium enrichment capabilities, SLCM-N NDAA report shows
The Senate Armed Services Committee wants to require the Department of Energy to pick two to four possible sites for a new domestic uranium enrichment facility for defense programs, according to a bill report published Monday. The report was appended to the panel’s version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization ACt (NDAA), which the Senate Armed Services Committee announced Monday it passed 22-3. No floor vote was set as of Monday evening. The report also shows that the committee wants the secretaries of energy and defense to brief Congress if either plans a warhead other than a W80 variant on a planned nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N). The SLCM-N briefing… |
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DOE updates contractor diversity expectations amid House GOP pushback
Department of Energy contractors should consider requiring “diversity training” when developing diversity plans, according to the latest version of its acquisition guide, published this week. That’s despite recent pushback by Republican House appropriators. Diversity plans were already required by DOE’s… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Hanford faces deadline crush to sort out grouting options
By John Stang OLYMPIA, WASH. — The Hanford Site faces an extremely tight schedule to select both a technology and a destination for low-level radioactive waste intended to be immobilized in grout, the site’s top lawyer said here this week.… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
DOD to restructure Sentinel program; announces more delays, overruns for next nuclear ICBM
The Air Force’s next-generation nuclear-tipped, silo-based intercontinental ballistic missile will continue but will be drastically restructured amid further cost increases and schedule delays announced Monday by the Department of Defense. The new overall cost estimate for Sentinel is $140.9 billion:… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Biden signs broad nuclear policy reforms into law
President Joe Biden (D) this week signed a bill intended, among other things, to ease domestic and foreign deployment of U.S. nuclear technology and reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The reforms of the Advanced Nuclear for Clean Energy (ADVANCE) Act… |
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