Nuclear Stockpile
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Nuclear ModernizationComplicated Restart of Niobium Alloy Production at DoE Could Delay Nuclear Weapons Deliveries, GAO Says
Future nuclear weapons programs will be delayed if the Department of Energy is not able to produce depleted-uranium-niobium alloy ingots in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in the next three years, according […]
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Business/FinancialNext Y-12/Pantex Contract Won’t Draw Protest, Will Happen on Time, NNSA Acquisition Boss Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) enterprise-wide procurement honcho predicted a competition to pick a new management contractor for the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Complex would conclude […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBillingslea Issues Clarion Call to Arms Control Community as ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ on New START Appears to Fall Apart
The Trump administration’s lead nuclear negotiator on Tuesday called on the arms control community to publicly back the White House’s drive to condition an indeterminate extension of the New START […]
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COVID-19Nuke Engineering Labs Had Nine New COVID Cases Last Week
The Sandia National Laboratories confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 among its workforce last week, raising the lab network’s total since the start of the outbreak to 86 cases. As […]
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Business/FinancialMore Big Companies, Another University Hopeful, Looking at DoE Nuke Production-Site Contract
A pair of university systems plus just about every major contractor to run the sites in the last decade-plus were among the 49 entities whose representatives toured the Y-12 National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Estimates W87-1 Will Cost Almost $15B, GAO Questions Ready Date
According to a recently declassified report, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) thinks it will cost some $14.8 billion to build W87-1 warheads for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) […]
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COVID-19Nuclear Weapons Labs Picked Up Four Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Last Week
The Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories combined picked up less than a handful of new confirmed COVID-19 cases last week, the New Mexico nuke sites reported late last week […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Officially Picks Up Honeywell FM&T Contract Option at Kansas City
The paperwork went through Monday to officially extend Honeywell [HON] Federal Manufacturing and Technologies for another year as the management and operations contractor of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) […]
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CongressDoE Nuke Chief Slated for SASC Hearing Thursday With DoD, STRATCOM Heavyweights
The Senate Armed Services Committee is calling in the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, and the undersecretary of defense in charge […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Bidders for New Civilian Nuke Production Contracts Can Tour Sites This Month
Companies interested in managing the two main civilian nuclear-weapon production sites under a potential 10-year, $28-billion contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration will be allowed to visit the facilities […]