Archive: Weapons complex

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