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COVID-19LANL Wants to Test Own Employees for COVID-19 Starting Today
The Los Alamos National Laboratory is set to begin testing its own employees for COVID-19 on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the northern New Mexico lab confirmed Monday. The local Los […]
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COVID-19Two More COVID-19 Cases Confirmed at DoE HQ
Two more staffers at Department of Energy headquarters buildings in and near Washington, D.C., have tested positive for COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Friday. One of these people […]
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COVID-19National Ignition Facility Experiments Have Resumed, DoE Says
Experiments resumed at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California in late April, following a COVID-19 shutdown, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSandia Rad-Hardened Electronics Lab Reopens After Deep Cleaning From COVID-19 Case
The Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico temporarily closed parts of the MESA complex where it produces radiation-hardened microelectronics for nuclear weapons after someone working there tested positive for COVID-19. […]
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Business/FinancialBWX Technologies Cites Strong First-Quarter Earnings
BWX Technologies [BWXT] brought in $542 million in first-quarter 2020 revenue, 30% more than the $416 million generated during the first three months of 2019. Net income for the period ended […]
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COVID-19Livermore Tightening On-Site COVID-19 Protocols as Workers Trickle Back
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy nuclear-weapon site closest to a major metropolitan area, is preparing for another month of stay-at-home orders in surrounding Alameda County, Calif., […]
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Nuclear ModernizationFormer NNSA Head Says New START Lapse Could Sap Hill Support Nukes
The National Nuclear Security Administration might lose political support in Congress if the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia lapses, the immediate past head of the semi-autonomous nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLRSO Might Be Early, Top Air Force Nuke General Says
Two key nuclear delivery systems, the Long Range Standoff Weapon cruise missile and the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile should be ready on time — the cruise […]
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Nuclear ModernizationW88 Alt-370 Milestone Has Pantex Closer to ‘Rate Production’
The Pantex Plant assembled the “first production capability unit” of the W88 Alt-370 submarine-launched warhead, a precursor to the first production unit intended to prove the entire warhead design is […]
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COVID-19NNSA Seeking N95 Respirators for Workforce; Chinese-made Equivalents Okay
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) gave a small business in Georgia a roughly $240,000 fixed-price contract to provide almost a quarter-million, China-made N95-style respirator masks for its contractor and […]
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