Archive: Weapons complex

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