Archive: Weapons complex

  1. The 2025 update on fissile material stocks
  2. South Korea to build nuclear-powered submarines
  3. BWXT begins the process of building a new enrichment facility
  4. France can use its existing stock of fissile materials to produce new nuclear warheads
  5. Russia withdraws from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
  6. BWXT receives contract to build a pilot enrichment facility
  7. US Department of Energy raises concerns about the plutonium pit production program
  8. Russia begins decommissioning ADE-2 plutonium production reactor
  9. United Kingdom announced a plan to produce fissile materials for defense
  10. United States produced first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead
  11. India has commissioned its second nuclear-powered submarine
  12. US plans weapon-grade HEU enrichment plant within a decade
  13. The United States and the United Kingdom amend the Mutual Defense Agreement
  14. Update on the US naval spent fuel shipments to Idaho National Lab
  15. France to produce tritium for nuclear weapons in EDF civilian nuclear reactors
  16. United Kingdom to build a new plutonium component manufacture facility
  17. Fissile material programs in the US budgets for 2022 and 2023
  18. The death of Frits Veerman - not the end of the Khan Affair
  19. U.S. plutonium pit production: Key updates
  20. Five controversial fissile-material-related items in the Department of Energy's FY2021 Budget Request
  21. Plutonium pit budget request: another massive increase expected
  22. U.S. plutonium pit production plans advance, with new requirements
  23. Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory
  24. U.S. shift away from HEU-fueled naval nuclear reactors could begin in the 2040s
  25. Russia begins decommissioning of the military reprocessing plant in Zheleznogorsk
  26. Fissile material mysteries in the U.S. Department of Energy FY20 budget request
  27. NRC terminates construction authorization for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  28. U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory
  29. US plutonium pit production plans fail to satisfy Congress; further studies underway
  30. United States to down-blend HEU for tritium production
  31. Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
  32. U.S. plutonium pit production and disposition plans face congressional scrutiny
  33. Declaring more U.S. weapon-grade uranium excess could delay the need to build a new national enrichment plant
  34. Questions about projected U.S. plutonium pit production capability
  35. Accident said to damage India's nuclear-powered submarine
  36. Fissile material issues in the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
  37. India launches its second nuclear-powered submarine
  38. Spent fuel of plutonium production reactors removed from Zheleznogorsk
  39. Chinese naval reactors
  40. U.S. Department of Energy seeks domestic enrichment capability
  41. United States adds 500 warheads to dismantlement queue, outlines its nuclear security record
  42. U.S. Congress sustains MOX facility construction
  43. India's first nuclear submarine accepted for service
  44. A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratory
  45. Pakistan may be building a new enrichment facility
  46. U.S. reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site resumed operations
  47. Russia to decommission a metallurgical plant in Seversk
  48. United States releases an update of its HEU inventory
  49. Ongoing transfers of weapon materials between the United States and the United Kingdom
  50. United States to discontinue construction of MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility
  51. Could the U.S. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant go critical if more plutonium were disposed in it?
  52. United States to dispose of 6 MT of weapon-grade plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
  53. Former defense reprocessing plant in Seversk to be decommissioned
  54. IPFM presents Global Fissile Material Report 2015 at the NPT Review Conference
  55. United States has no preferred alternative for disposition of surplus plutonium
  56. U.S. Department of Energy set to restart last remaining U.S. reprocessing plant
  57. U.S. MOX report reveals major cost estimate increases
  58. Russia removed weapon-grade plutonium from Seversk
  59. Pakistan's Chashma reprocessing plant may be completed
  60. Fourth plutonium production reactor in Pakistan appears operational
  61. Two new reports raise fundamental questions on Savannah River MOX plant
  62. Savannah River MOX Plant secures 2015 funding but future of program remains in doubt
  63. U.S. MOX plant construction license extended
  64. Pakistan outlines scope for FM(C)T intended to establish parity with India
  65. India ratifies an additional protocol and will safeguard two more nuclear power reactors
  66. Pakistan begins operating third Khushab plutonium production reactor
  67. Damning U.S. Department of Energy audit on cost and schedule overruns at the MOX Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site
  68. United States updates information about its nuclear weapons stokpile
  69. United States puts MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility on cold standby
  70. Further increase in the cost of U.S. plutonium disposition program
  71. Rising cost of the Uranium Processing Facility in the United States
  72. UK nuclear warhead dismantlement program
  73. India activated its first nuclear submarine reactor
  74. United States to look for more efficient plutonium disposition options
  75. The cost of the U.S. MOX plant is estimated to be $7.7 billion
  76. Amounts of fissile materials in early Soviet nuclear devices
  77. United States begins shipments of plutonium from Savannah River to WIPP
  78. Special nuclear material removed from Livermore
  79. Unprecedented security breach at the key U.S. HEU storage facility
  80. Environmental impact statement for the U.S. surplus plutonium disposition program
  81. U.S. Nuclear Weapons Council recommends deferral of the CMRR facility
  82. United States releases an update of its plutonium inventory
  83. Decommissioning of Seversk plutonium production reactors
  84. Pakistan again blocks UN Conference on Disarmament talks on FCMT
  85. Russia to complete separation of weapon-grade plutonium
  86. North Korea agreed to suspend nuclear activities
  87. Some details of India's nuclear program
  88. H-Canyon to produce MOX feed from excess weapon plutonium
  89. United States produces MOX feed from weapon plutonium
  90. U.S. non-military plutonium in 2010
  91. United States announces details of the American Assured Fuel Supply
  92. U.S. court rules against suspension of CMRR plutonium facility
  93. Questions raised about safety of the U.S. MOX plant
  94. A U.S. court to hold hearings on CMRR plutonium facility at Los Alamos
  95. U.S. MOX program wanted relaxed security at the weapon-grade plutonium facility
  96. U.S. plutonium disposition program: Uncertainties of the MOX route
  97. Zheleznogorsk will complete separation of plutonium in 2012
  98. Pakistan is seen as building fourth plutonium production reactor
  99. Pakistan to block progress at the CD, citing Obama's support of India joining NSG
  100. The Conference on Disarmament in 2011: Pakistan and the FMCT, and Wikileaks
  101. India starts new unsafeguarded reprocessing plant
  102. India shuts down CIRUS reactor
  103. U.S. non-military plutonium in 2009
  104. Future supply of tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons in doubt
  105. Restroom cleaner vapors shut down parts of Los Alamos plutonium processing facility
  106. United States and Russia request safeguards for their excess plutonium
  107. POGO report on U.S. highly-enriched uranium
  108. Changes in U.S. Surplus Plutonium Disposition program
  109. Nuclear warhead dismantlement at Y-12 suspended over safety issues
  110. Argentina considers naval reactors
  111. Project 816 - Unfinished plutonium production complex in China
  112. India developing new centrifuges and increasing enrichment capacity
  113. Video of handling of nuclear warheads at a NNSA facility
  114. U.S.-Russian Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement
  115. Russia no longer produces weapon materials
  116. Nuclear Security Summit documents
  117. United States and Russia sign protocol to plutonium disposition agreement
  118. Last Russian plutonium production reactor to finally shut down
  119. U.S. and Russia to finalize plutonium disposition agreement
  120. Plutonium processing to remain at Mayak
  121. U.S. civilian plutonium in 2008
  122. Pakistan may have completed new plutonium production reactor, Khushab-II
  123. Shutdown schedule for Russia's last plutonium production reactor
  124. Incident at Russian plutonium production reactor
  125. U.S. assistance in securing fissile materials in Russia
  126. Tritium production and recovery in the United States in FY2011
  127. U.S. contribution to Russia's plutonium disposition program
  128. U.S. fissile material disposition programs in FY2011
  129. U.S. administration requests funds for nuclear weapons facilities
  130. NNSA nuclear warheads activity in FY2011
  131. Start-up of the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at Oak Ridge
  132. U.S. Navy plans for a new class of ballistic-missile submarines
  133. BN-800 expected to begin operations in 2014
  134. Improvements of the MPC&A system at Mayak
  135. Pakistan has blocked the start of talks on a Fissile Material (Cutoff) Treaty
  136. Categorization of HEU fuel at Sandia
  137. Nuclear Fuel Services plant suspends production
  138. Refurbishing of nuclear warhead components in the U.S.
  139. Russia restarts plutonium production reactor
  140. Photos of trucks that transport nuclear materials and weapons components
  141. U.S. and Russian experts talk nuclear security at Angarsk
  142. Plutonium production reactor in Zheleznogorsk shut down
  143. Metallurgical plant at Mayak to close by 2014
  144. The last Russian plutonium production reactor to shut down
  145. IAEA reports on Iran and Syria
  146. NNSA releases plan for nuclear complex
  147. Last Russian plutonium production reactor to shut down in 2009
  148. MOX fuel controversy
  149. Plutonium from last Russian production reactors
  150. Zheleznogorsk reactor shutdown schedule
  151. Mayak wants to build a MOX fabrication plant
  152. Russia ends plutonium production in Seversk
  153. Areva signs contract to build MOX fuel fabrication facility
  154. Accelerated downblending: Domenici amendment
  155. Plutonium production reactor in Seversk shut down
  156. Most sensitive nuclear material removed from Sandia
  157. U.S.-Russian agreement on plutonium disposal
  158. U.S. removes nine tonnes of Pu from weapon stockpile