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