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COVID-19Nuclear Weapons Engineering Lab Temporarily Drops Vax Mandate
The Sandia National Laboratories have temporarily dropped a requirement that all employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, leaving only a pair of National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-owned sites that require vaccination. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAdams Officially Nominated for Top NNSA Weapons Post
The White House on Tuesday officially nominated Marvin Adams to succeed Charles Verdon as the top weapons official at National Nuclear Security Administration headquarters in Washington, according to an evening […]
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COVID-19LANL Vax Mandate One of Three Remaining at Major NNSA Sites
Three of the four major National Nuclear Security Administration nuclear-weapon sites still have active COVID-19 vaccine mandates in spite of a federal judge’s December order that barred enforcement of the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDiscussions Scheduled for This Month About Upping Weapons Tritium Output From TVA Reactors
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission planned to meet in January to discuss increasing production of tritium for nuclear weapons in civilian reactors operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, according to a […]
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Nuclear ModernizationMcConnell Gets Promotion at DoE Nuke Headquarters in Washington
James McConnell is the new No. 3 and top career civil servant at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency said before New Year’s. […]
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COVID-19Livermore Lab Suspends COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate, Joining Majority of NNSA Sites That Disclose Their Policies
Nuclear weapons design lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the design agency for programs to modernize warheads for next-generation cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles, paused enforcement of its COVID-19 […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTexas A&M Nuclear Prof Nominated for Top Weapons Job at DoE Headquarters
The Biden administration will nominate Texas A&M nuclear engineering professor Marvin Adams to be deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the White House announced Wednesday. […]
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Business/FinancialLosing Bidders Protest Award of Decade-Long DoE Nuke-Site Management Contract
Groups led by BWX Technologies [BWXT] and Bechtel National have protested the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decision to award management and operations of the agency’s two […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAt Least One Civilian Nuclear Contractor Suspends COVID Vaccine Mandate After Federal Judge’s Ruling
Sources said the management and operations contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big nuclear-weapons production sites suspended its employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate this week after a federal judge […]
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F-35 Nuke Cert, GBSD Warhead Test Launch on Track, AF General Says; Announcement Coming on GBSD Rename
The Air Force’s F-35A variant should still be certified to carry a pair of B61-12 bombs by fiscal year 2026 and the first flight test of a non-nuclear W87-0 warhead […]