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Nuclear ModernizationNuclear Posture Review ‘Will Change Little’ at DoE, Civilian Nuke Official Speculates
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Whatever changes the Joe Biden administration’s nuclear posture review prescribes to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in the U.S. national defense strategy, the nuclear production complex […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCivilian Nuclear Weapons Budget Request for ’22 Barely Adequate, Joint Pentagon-DoE Group Says
The roughly 1% annual increase the Joe Biden administration proposed for civilian nuclear weapons programs is “minimally sufficient” to keep warhead and bomb modernization on track in 2022, but maybe […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHruby Confirmed to Lead DoE Nuclear Weapons Agency
The Senate on Thursday confirmed ex-Sandia National Laboratories director Jill Hruby as the sixth administrator of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. The vote was 79-16. The semi-autonomous […]
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BudgetGOP Lawmakers File Amendments to Provide Funds for Proposed Sea-Launched Nukes in DoE Budget
With the full House set to vote next week on a multi-bill spending package that would keep the civilian nuclear weapons budget about flat at about $20 billion, some Republican […]
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BudgetHouse Approps Committee’s Civil Nuke Budget Holds Line on Major Weapons Programs
The House Appropriations Committee last Friday approved a 2022 civilian nuclear weapons budget that for now holds the line on modernizing the Department of Energy’s nuclear-weapons production complex, including proposed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Nuke Agency Finishes First Copy of Refurbed Submarine Warhead; Deliveries Sked’d for 2022
The National Nuclear Security Administration said Tuesday it completed the first production unit of a refurbished submarine-launched nuclear warhead, setting the stage for a mass-production run that could begin early […]
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Congress
DOE Nuke Agency Would Get Requested Weapons Funding in Draft House Budget Bill; GOP Says ‘Short Changes’
Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs would get almost exactly the funding they requested for fiscal year 2022, if the House’s first draft of the Department of Energy’s budget bill […]
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Nuclear ModernizationUK Nuclear Complex Management Renationalized
The United Kingdom was scheduled to renationalize management of its nuclear weapons production complex Thursday after almost 30 years of letting industry hold the reins. The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) […]
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Nuclear ModernizationRein in Nuke Spending ‘Til January, Keep GBSD, Avoid ‘Big Leap’ on LRSO, Armed Service Chair Says
Nuclear weapons spending should be kept at a minimum until the White House finishes a review of the arsenal in January, but the Air Force’s next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile program […]
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Nuclear Modernization
DOE Approves Cost Range for S.C. Nuke Core Factory: $6.9B-$11.1B
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration on Monday formalized its choice to build the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility pit factory out of the remains of the partially […]