Archive: Weapons complex

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