Archive: Weapons complex

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