Archive: Weapons complex

  1. Russia withdraws from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
  2. BWXT receives contract to build a pilot enrichment facility
  3. US Department of Energy raises concerns about the plutonium pit production program
  4. Russia begins decommissioning ADE-2 plutonium production reactor
  5. United Kingdom announced a plan to produce fissile materials for defense
  6. United States produced first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead
  7. India has commissioned its second nuclear-powered submarine
  8. US plans weapon-grade HEU enrichment plant within a decade
  9. Update on the US naval spent fuel shipments to Idaho National Lab
  10. France to produce tritium for nuclear weapons in EDF civilian nuclear reactors
  11. United Kingdom to build a new plutonium component manufacture facility
  12. Fissile material programs in the US budgets for 2022 and 2023
  13. The death of Frits Veerman - not the end of the Khan Affair
  14. U.S. plutonium pit production: Key updates
  15. Five controversial fissile-material-related items in the Department of Energy's FY2021 Budget Request
  16. Plutonium pit budget request: another massive increase expected
  17. U.S. plutonium pit production plans advance, with new requirements
  18. Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory
  19. U.S. shift away from HEU-fueled naval nuclear reactors could begin in the 2040s
  20. Russia begins decommissioning of the military reprocessing plant in Zheleznogorsk
  21. Fissile material mysteries in the U.S. Department of Energy FY20 budget request
  22. NRC terminates construction authorization for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  23. U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory
  24. US plutonium pit production plans fail to satisfy Congress; further studies underway
  25. United States to down-blend HEU for tritium production
  26. Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
  27. U.S. plutonium pit production and disposition plans face congressional scrutiny
  28. Declaring more U.S. weapon-grade uranium excess could delay the need to build a new national enrichment plant
  29. Questions about projected U.S. plutonium pit production capability
  30. Accident said to damage India's nuclear-powered submarine
  31. Fissile material issues in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
  32. India launches its second nuclear-powered submarine
  33. Spent fuel of plutonium production reactors removed from Zheleznogorsk
  34. Chinese naval reactors
  35. U.S. Department of Energy seeks domestic enrichment capability
  36. United States adds 500 warheads to dismantlement queue, outlines its nuclear security record
  37. U.S. Congress sustains MOX facility construction
  38. India's first nuclear submarine accepted for service
  39. A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratory
  40. Pakistan may be building a new enrichment facility
  41. U.S. reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site resumed operations
  42. Russia to decommission a metallurgical plant in Seversk
  43. United States releases an update of its HEU inventory
  44. Ongoing transfers of weapon materials between the United States and the United Kingdom
  45. United States to discontinue construction of MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  46. Could the U.S. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant go critical if more plutonium were disposed in it?
  47. United States to dispose of 6 MT of weapon-grade plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
  48. Former defense reprocessing plant in Seversk to be decommissioned
  49. IPFM presents Global Fissile Material Report 2015 at the NPT Review Conference
  50. United States has no preferred alternative for disposition of surplus plutonium
  51. U.S. Department of Energy set to restart last remaining U.S. reprocessing plant
  52. U.S. MOX report reveals major cost estimate increases
  53. Russia removed weapon-grade plutonium from Seversk
  54. Pakistan's Chashma reprocessing plant may be completed
  55. Fourth plutonium production reactor in Pakistan appears operational
  56. Two new reports raise fundamental questions on Savannah River MOX plant
  57. Savannah River MOX Plant secures 2015 funding but future of program remains in doubt
  58. U.S. MOX plant construction license extended
  59. Pakistan outlines scope for FM(C)T intended to establish parity with India
  60. India ratifies an additional protocol and will safeguard two more nuclear power reactors
  61. Pakistan begins operating third Khushab plutonium production reactor
  62. Damning U.S. Department of Energy audit on cost and schedule overruns at the MOX Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site
  63. United States updates information about its nuclear weapons stokpile
  64. United States puts MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility on cold standby
  65. Further increase in the cost of U.S. plutonium disposition program
  66. Rising cost of the Uranium Processing Facility in the United States
  67. UK nuclear warhead dismantlement program
  68. India activated its first nuclear submarine reactor
  69. United States to look for more efficient plutonium disposition options
  70. The cost of the U.S. MOX plant is estimated to be $7.7 billion
  71. Amounts of fissile materials in early Soviet nuclear devices
  72. United States begins shipments of plutonium from Savannah River to WIPP
  73. Special nuclear material removed from Livermore
  74. Unprecedented security breach at the key U.S. HEU storage facility
  75. Environmental impact statement for the U.S. surplus plutonium disposition program
  76. U.S. Nuclear Weapons Council recommends deferral of the CMRR facility
  77. United States releases an update of its plutonium inventory
  78. Decommissioning of Seversk plutonium production reactors
  79. Pakistan again blocks UN Conference on Disarmament talks on FCMT
  80. Russia to complete separation of weapon-grade plutonium
  81. North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear activities
  82. Some details of India's nuclear program
  83. H-Canyon to produce MOX feed from excess weapon plutonium
  84. United States produces MOX feed from weapon plutonium
  85. U.S. non-military plutonium in 2010
  86. United States announces details of the American Assured Fuel Supply
  87. U.S. court rules against suspension of CMRR plutonium facility
  88. Questions raised about safety of the U.S. MOX plant
  89. A U.S. court to hold hearings on CMRR plutonium facility at Los Alamos
  90. U.S. MOX program wanted relaxed security at the weapon-grade plutonium facility
  91. U.S. plutonium disposition program: Uncertainties of the MOX route
  92. Zheleznogorsk will complete separation of plutonium in 2012
  93. Pakistan is seen as building fourth plutonium production reactor
  94. Pakistan to block progress at the CD, citing Obama's support of India joining NSG
  95. The Conference on Disarmament in 2011: Pakistan and the FMCT, and Wikileaks
  96. India starts new unsafeguarded reprocessing plant
  97. India shuts down CIRUS reactor
  98. U.S. non-military plutonium in 2009
  99. Future supply of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons in doubt
  100. Restroom cleaner vapors shut down parts of Los Alamos plutonium processing facility
  101. United States and Russia request safeguards for their excess plutonium
  102. POGO report on U.S. highly-enriched uranium
  103. Changes in U.S. Surplus Plutonium Disposition program
  104. Nuclear warhead dismantlement at Y-12 suspended over safety issues
  105. Argentina considers naval reactors
  106. Project 816 - Unfinished plutonium production complex in China
  107. India developing new centrifuges and increasing enrichment capacity
  108. Video of handling of nuclear warheads at a NNSA facility
  109. U.S.-Russian Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
  110. Russia no longer produces weapon materials
  111. Nuclear Security Summit documents
  112. United States and Russia sign protocol to plutonium disposition agreement
  113. Last Russian plutonium production reactor to finally shut down
  114. U.S. and Russia to finalize plutonium disposition agreement
  115. Plutonium processing to remain at Mayak
  116. U.S. civilian plutonium in 2008
  117. Pakistan may have completed new plutonium production reactor, Khushab-II
  118. Shutdown schedule for Russia's last plutonium production reactor
  119. Incident at Russian plutonium production reactor
  120. U.S. assistance in securing fissile materials in Russia
  121. Tritium production and recovery in the United States in FY2011
  122. U.S. contribution to Russia's plutonium disposition program
  123. U.S. fissile material disposition programs in FY2011
  124. U.S. administration requests funds for nuclear weapons facilities
  125. NNSA nuclear warheads activity in FY2011
  126. Start-up of the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at Oak Ridge
  127. U.S. Navy plans for a new class of ballistic-missile submarines
  128. BN-800 expected to begin operations in 2014
  129. Improvements of the MPC&A system at Mayak
  130. Pakistan has blocked the start of talks on a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty
  131. Categorization of HEU fuel at Sandia
  132. Nuclear Fuel Services plant suspends production
  133. Refurbishing of nuclear warhead components in the U.S.
  134. Russia restarts plutonium production reactor
  135. Photos of trucks that transport nuclear materials and weapons components
  136. U.S. and Russian experts talk nuclear security at Angarsk
  137. Plutonium production reactor in Zheleznogorsk shut down
  138. Metallurgical plant at Mayak to close by 2014
  139. The last Russian plutonium production reactor to shut down
  140. IAEA reports on Iran and Syria
  141. NNSA releases plan for nuclear complex
  142. Last Russian plutonium production reactor to shut down in 2009
  143. MOX fuel controversy
  144. Plutonium from last Russian production reactors
  145. Zheleznogorsk reactor shutdown schedule
  146. Mayak wants to build a MOX fabrication plant
  147. Russia ends plutonium production in Seversk
  148. Areva signs contract to build MOX fuel fabrication facility
  149. Accelerated downblending: Domenici amendment
  150. Plutonium production reactor in Seversk shut down
  151. Most sensitive nuclear material removed from Sandia
  152. U.S.-Russian agreement on plutonium disposal
  153. U.S. removes nine tonnes of Pu from weapon stockpile