Nuclear Weapons
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UncategorizedBalky Capacitors Spell Delay for Nuclear Weapon Deliveries to DoD
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will be late with initial deliveries to the Pentagon of two refurbished nuclear weapons, the head of the semi-autonomous nuclear-weapons agency said Wednesday NNSA […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNew Study Finds NNSA Pit Strategy Unlikely to Meet Production Deadline, Lawmaker Says
The Pentagon and the National Nuclear Security Administration should reconsider their decision to make nuclear weapon cores in two states beginning in 2030 after yet another study concluded the plan […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAir Force Releases Funds for Early Components for Boeing’s B61-12 Tail Kit
Boeing [BA] has received a roughly $125 million contract modification to procure some long-lead components for the guided tail kit the company is making for the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoD Policy Official Ducks Question About Delivery of Nuclear Cores if Congress Block Planned Plutonium Plant
A senior defense official declined to say Wednesday whether the Department of Energy can deliver nuclear warheads for next-generation intercontinental ballistic missiles on time if Congress does not fund both […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDOE Lab To Seek Bids On Waste Treatment Plant For Warhead Core Factory
The Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to solicit bids in October for design and construction of a facility to treat liquid transuranic waste generated by future production of fissile nuclear-weapon cores, called […]
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UncategorizedBWXT Blunder With Columbia Missile Tube Welds Chewed Two-Thirds of Program’s Margin
BWX Technologies’ [BWXT] mistake last year welding ballistic-missile tubes for the first Columbia-class submarine consumed 15 of the 23 months of schedule cushion built into the Common Missile Compartment program, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationB83 Bomb Can Go 5-7 More Years Without Major Refurb, DoE Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can only wait five to seven more years before beginning a potentially costly life-extension program on the megaton-class B83 gravity bomb, a senior agency […]
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BudgetKaptur Goes After NNSA Weapons Programs in 2020 Budget Hearing
The head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) moved to protect weapons life-extension programs and plutonium infrastructure from the budget ax wielded here Tuesday by the House’s top […]
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BudgetNNSA Again Seeks Substantial Increase for W80 Refurb
Proportionally or by raw dollars, the W80-4 life-extension program would get the biggest increase of any active Department of Energy warhead refurbishment in 2020, if the Trump administration’s budget request […]
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Nuclear Modernization
DoE Nuke Budget Request Lacks ‘Clear Priorities,’ House Approps Cardinal Says
A day after the Department of Energy released some 650 pages of details on its $16.5-billion nuclear-weapons budget request for 2020, the chair of the House Appropriations panel that funds […]