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UncategorizedSea-Launched Cruise Missile is NNSA Unfunded Priority; Warhead Other Than W80-4 Possible
The National Nuclear Security Administration seeks $70 million for a sea-launched cruise missile warhead for fiscal year 2025 as part of the agency’s list of unfunded priorities, a lawmaker said […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBill To Tax New Nuke Parts Slips Off Legislature’s Agenda As Session Winds Down
A bill that would have let New Mexico and Los Alamos County tax production of plutonium pits died quietly in the New Mexico legislature after a committee of jurisdiction declined […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Working Date: 30 Nuke Cores a Year By 2028, Los Alamos Director Says
The Los Alamos National Laboratory should be able to produce 30 nuclear weapon cores annually by 2028, the lab’s director said here Wednesday. “At the moment the plan we’re working […]
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UncategorizedNinth Circuit Sides With DoE Sandia Contractor, Finds Scientist Not Fired
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled a longtime scientist and manager at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories was not effectively fired by the prime contractor […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTribes, DOE, Air Force Weigh In On Clean Energy Projects at Nevada Site
Use of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site for carbon-free energy will not include small modular reactors, a local manager for DoE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, told a […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLatest Federal Budget Extension Has Emergency Funding to Avert Layoffs at Y-12
House and Senate appropriators on Sunday agreed to extend 2023 budgets for federal agencies for about another month-and-a-half, into March, while they continue work on permanent budget bills for the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore Lab Develops New Tool To Simulate Using Nukes To Deflect Asteroids Away From Earth
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a new tool to model how blowing up a nuclear weapon might stop an asteroid from slamming into Earth. Published in December in […]
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CongressFinal NDAA negotiations to begin Wednesday
Members of the House and Senate were set to formally kick off final negotiations for the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, the Senate Armed Services Committee announced. The […]
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UncategorizedNNSA Kicks Can on Facility Crucial to Disposing of Old Warhead Cores
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) drive to make new nuclear-weapon cores has delayed disposal of old ones, according to an agency statement emailed to the Exchange Monitor on Tuesday. Amid the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPossible Suitors For Pantex M&O Pact Emerge
Jacobs Solutions [J], Huntington Ingalls [HII], BWX Technologies [BWXT] and others are among those seeking the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decade-spanning, $30 billion contract to manage the agency’s nuclear-weapons […]
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