Archive: Weapons complex

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