Nuclear Stockpile

Congressional leaders asked the Department of Energy to turn over by Feb. 16 its communications with three national labs reportedly targeted in January by Russian hackers. The Lawrence Livermore National […]

The Los Alamos National Laboratory will install by 2030 the equipment needed to make at least 30 plutonium pits annually, according to a Jan. 19 memo from the deputy secretary […]

Feds at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina are busy planning to transfer responsibility for the complex to DoE’s nuclear weapons office from the cleanup branch […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in December removed some surplus, weapon-usable plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the agency said Friday.  The agency did not say […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans by Oct. 31 to have permanent leadership for the three new procurement- and infrastructure-focused offices it created last year when it broke up […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is adding about $10 million of work to the first phase of Nuclear Fuel Services’ contract to purify uranium for the secondary stages of […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to award Converdyn a five-year, sole-source contract to convert triuranium octoxide into uranium hexafluoride as part of a new federal uranium stockpiling program. […]

Materials shortages and labor productivity drove a two-year delay to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) next factory for nuclear-weapon secondary stages, the head of agency said Thursday. As a […]

Critical-decision 2 for a new plutonium pit production plant at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina is now expected in fiscal 2025, a state panel heard […]

In the nine months just ended, renationalization of the U.K. nuclear weapons complex cost Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Space segment more than three quarters of a billion dollars, the company reported […]