Archive: Weapons complex

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