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Clay Matthews III has a tough act to follow.
In a new book that Publishers Weekly says "puts a human face on Christian homeschooling," a professor at the Indiana University School of Education chronicles the stories of six conservative Christian families from across the country and analyzes the growing homeschooling movement.
The National Nuclear Security Administration today announced that a team led by Baker Concrete Construction, Inc., of Monroe, Ohio has been awarded a $91.5 million contract for the construction of NNSA’s Waste Solidification Building (WSB) at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, S.C. The WSB will process waste streams from the NNSA’s plutonium disposition efforts at SRS -- principally wastes from the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and from weapons pit disassembly operations -- by converting them to a cementitious material for offsite disposal.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC (MOX Services) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) have signed a letter of intent to enter into contract negotiations for the irradiation of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. MOX Services is NNSA’s contractor to build and operate the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, which currently is under construction at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina. The MOX fuel will be fabricated from surplus weapon-grade plutonium at the facility.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration congratulates its labs and Advanced Simulation and Computing program for earning three of the top 10 spots on the latest TOP500 supercomputer list, which was released yesterday.
Washington, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that it has awarded a $209 million contract to down-blend 12.1 metric tons (MT) of surplus U.S. highly enriched uranium (HEU) and store the resulting low-enriched uranium (LEU). The contract was awarded to a team consisting of WesDyne International, LLC (a division of Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC) and Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (a subsidiary of the Babcock and Wilcox Company).
