Energy Dept Issues More Declassification Decisions October 4, 2021
The formerly classified fact that one metric ton of plutonium metal was to be moved from the Savannah River Site in 2019 for use in nuclear weapon pit production…
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DOE Declassifies Declassification of Downblending Move October 18, 2018
Last year, the Department of Energy decided to declassify the fact it intended to make 25 metric tons of Highly Enriched Uranium available from “the national security inventory” for downblending…
Read moreClassified Human Subjects Research Continues at DOE August 10, 2018
A dozen classified programs that involved research on human subjects were underway last year at the Department of Energy. Human subjects research refers broadly to the collection of…
Read moreDOE Seeks to End MOX Plutonium Disposal Program February 26, 2018
The Trump Administration requested $220 million next year “to continue the orderly and safe closure of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility.” The MOX Fuel…
Read moreRecovering Radioactive Nuclear Sources December 21, 2017
Over the past decade the Department of Energy/NNSA has recovered thousands of sealed radioactive isotope sources from around the world that were abandoned, unwanted or no longer needed. Sealed nuclear…
Read moreLatest Nuclear Weapon Declassifications May 26, 2017
The fact that a particular nuclear weapon has (or does not have) a “dial-a-yield capability” enabling the selection of a desired explosive yield was declassified earlier this…
Read moreUpdated Nuclear Stockpile Figures Declassified May 31, 2016
The size of the U.S. nuclear stockpile as of September 30, 2015 — 4,571 weapons — and the number of U.S. nuclear weapons that were dismantled in FY 2015 —…
Read moreDOE Requests Increase in Nuclear Weapons Budget April 4, 2016
The Department of Energy budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would again increase spending on nuclear weapons in Fiscal Year 2017. “The budget request for FY2017 seeks…
Read moreNew Rules on Classified Human Subject Research at the Dept of Energy February 24, 2016
The Department of Energy last month issued new guidance on the conduct of classified scientific research involving human subjects. While all human subject research is governed by federal…
Read moreTolman Reports on Declassification Now Online October 9, 2015
This week the Department of Energy posted the first declassification guidance for nuclear weapons-related information, known as the Tolman Committee reports, prepared in 1945-46. The Tolman reports were an early…
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