Nuclear Weapons

As the nuclear-weapons production complex begins a shift into overdrive, non-essential personnel at the Pantex site were asked to delay their arrival starting with Monday’s graveyard shift after a late-season […]

A new 20,000-square-foot high-explosives fabrication facility at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Pantex Plant should be up and running by January 2024. Pantex broke ground on the new Advanced […]

After idling for half the 2022 fiscal year at last year’s budget level, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would get some $26.65 billion to see it through Sept. 30, […]

There is not enough money in the world for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to spend its way to making 80 plutonium pits a year by 2030, the general […]

In light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now in its seventh day, the Democratic controlled House and its Armed Services Committee are certain to authorize an increase in the defense […]

Citing a lack of transparency on the agency’s part, a losing bidder for a major nuclear-weapon sites management contract cried foul in January when the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear […]

Both quarterly and annual net earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT], Lynchburg, Va., the nuclear services provider said in a Tuesday press release. Net earnings for the fourth quarter ended […]

Depending on when the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can “really” manufacture new plutonium pits, and depending on what “the real capacity” to make pits is, the Navy might be […]

Below is a digest of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) performance evaluation summaries: the agency’s report cards for its big contracts, which explain how much management […]

The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday would shed no light on the timeline for transitioning the agency’s two main weapons production sites to new management, […]