Nuclear Weapons
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COVID-19Energy Dept. HQ COVID-19 Cases at 10, With More Reported Recoveries
Two more people at the Department of Energy’s Forrestal Building headquarters in Washington, D.C., have tested positive for COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Friday. One employee has not […]
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Business/FinancialGermany Could Buy American for NATO Nuke Mission; Possible Boon for Boeing
Germany’s Federal Ministry for Defence wants the country to buy American for the future of the country’s nuclear-sharing mission with the U.S., urging the legislature to approve the purchase of […]
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COVID-19DoE Nuke Agency Puts CARES Act Relief Language Into Prime Contracts
Not much sooner than Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette provided the guidance for doing so, the agency’s semi-autonomous nuclear-weapons agency added language to prime contracts enabling operators of nuclear weapons sites […]
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COVID-19DoE Plant for Nuke Weapons Components Bringing Some People Back
The Kansas City National Security Campus, the nation’s manufacturing hub for the non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons, said Monday it will take a baby step back toward normal operations during […]
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COVID-19Los Alamos, Livermore Eye Ramp-Up From COVID-19 Lockdowns
With the United States probing the possibility of thawing the social freeze from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories plan to start […]
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COVID-19One Nuke Lab Starts Self-Testing Workers; Another Could Follow This Week
The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories started offering limited COVID-19 tests for its employees last week, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory could start testing this week, according to a […]
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COVID-19NNSA Production Sites Hunker Down Amid COVID-19 Crisis; No Workforce-wide Testing
All but one of the main Department of Energy nuclear weapons production sites have now hunkered down into minimum mission-critical operations because of COVID-19, keeping only the personnel needed to […]
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Business/FinancialSouth Carolina Nuke Weapons Work Moving to New Contract
In an arrangement similar to the status quo, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will fund its nuclear weapons work in South Carolina through a potentially decade-long management and operations […]
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COVID-19Energy Dept. HQ Employee Dies of COVID-19
A employee at Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, D.C., has died from COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Tuesday. News of the he death, the first confirmed COVID-19 […]
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COVID-19Daily Testing, Protective Equipment, Needed for Essential Workers, House Armed Services Chair Says
Essential workers, including those at Department of Energy nuclear-weapon plants that have not paused operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic, should be able to get tested for the virus daily, and […]