Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear ModernizationWildfire Outside LANL Gates Calming Down, Agencies Say
The Cerro Pelado wildfire in New Mexico, which started a month ago today, was about 80% contained on Sunday, according to the latest update from state and federal agencies. Firefighters over […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPlutonium Pit Master Sked Coming This Year; First W80-4 Cruise Missile Warhead Likely Late, NNSA Admin Testifies
This year, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will finish an integrated master schedule for building a new plutonium pit manufacturing complex and this summer it will quantify delays to […]
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CongressPlan To Get Plutonium-Pit Factories Back On Track Coming In ‘Early Fall,’ Official Tells Lawmakers
It will take all summer to finalize a plan aimed at hastening construction of a key nuclear-weapon-component factory that has fallen behind schedule in South Carolina, a Pentagon official said […]
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CongressUranium Processing Facility Will Be Eight Months Late, NNSA Says
A new facility for manufacturing nuclear-weapon secondary stages will not be completed until August 2026: eight months later than expected, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) told […]
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Navy/USMCColumbia, Dreadnought Subs ‘Bounced Back’ From Faulty Missile Tubes, U.S. Admiral Says
Faulty missile tubes that earlier consumed months of schedule margin on the next-generation U.S. nuclear-armed, ballistic missile submarines are not pacing the schedule for the boats anymore, the admiral in […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHearing on Nuclear Weapons, Waste Budgets Canceled Amid Voting ‘Circus’ on House Floor
The House Appropriations subcommittee in charge of writing the first draft of the Department of Energy’s annual budget called off a Wednesday hearing with the agency’s top nuclear weapons and […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPrez, CEO of Prime Contractor For Big Civilian Nuclear Weapon Sites Retiring
Michelle Reichert said she will retire May 20 as president and chief executive officer of Consolidated Nuclear Security, the outgoing management and operations contractor of the U.S.’ two main nuclear-weapon […]
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Nuclear ModernizationMore Money Won’t Buy More Pits, NNSA Administrator, Nuclear Weapons Council Chair Tells Senators
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) won’t be able to make 80 pits annually by 2030 even if Congress throws more money at the problem this year, the agency’s top […]
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DoE, DoD, ‘Sorting Out’ Plutonium Pit Needs; New Pits ‘a Hedge,’ NNSA Says
The Pentagon and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are still “sorting out” exactly how many nuclear-weapon triggers the military needs and by when, the head of the civilian agency […]
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Business/FinancialDoE Locks in Honeywell Subsidiary at Nuclear Weapons Lab for Five More Years
Honeywell’s [HON] wholly owned subsidiary National Engineering and Technology Solutions of Sandia will be the prime contractor for the Sandia National Laboratories for another five years, the Department of Energy’s […]