Archive: Weapons complex

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