Archive: Weapons complex

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