Archive: Weapons complex

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