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Business/FinancialContractor for Civilian Nuke Production Sites Gets Short Extension
Consolidated Nuclear Security will remain on the job at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big production sites at least two months longer than planned and possibly as many as […]
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BudgetBiden’s $20B Civil Nuke Budget Whacks Weapons, Compared With Trump Forecast
As part of a roughly $20 billion 2022 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Biden administration last Friday sought about 12 percent less for civilian nuclear weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Core Factory Might be Five Years Later Than Hoped, Civilian Weapons Nominee Tells Senators
A planned pit factory to be built at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., might take five years longer than the National Nuclear Security Administration wanted to produce its […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSRS Finished Tritium Upgrades for B61-12 in February
The Savannah River Site in February completed upgrades to tritium processing facilities at the site’s H-Area that will allow personnel to fill tritium reservoirs for the planned B61-12 nuclear gravity […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCBO Publishes Latest Nuke Modernization Report Days Ahead of Budget Rollout
Once again, the Congressional Budget Office’s biennial cost estimate for the 10 years of nuclear modernization spending has arrived just in time for the yearly federal budget debate on Capitol […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSenators Probe Acting NNSA Chief About Livermore Pits, Foreign Uranium
In a budget hearing that was mostly a best-of, a couple senators asked the acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) about alternative means of meeting the mission […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCalifornia Congressman Again Calls for Pause on GBSD
Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), a reliable vote against the nuclear-modernization status quo in the House Armed Services Committee, told disarmament advocates Monday that the Biden administration should pause development of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBiden Nuclear Posture Review Starting ‘Soon,’ Running Into ‘Fall,’ DOD Official Tells Senators
The Biden administration will start its nuclear posture review soon and work on it into the fall, there’s no new Minuteman III life-extension study at the Pentagon and bad welds […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Secretary Tells Congress She Supports Existing Plan for Nuke Core Production
During a nearly three-hour budget hearing into which nuclear weapons seldom figured, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said Thursday she supports building a two-state complex to produce at least 80 […]
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Business/FinancialNet Income, Revenue Dip for BWXT In First Quarter
Revenue and net income fell for BWX Technologies [BWXT], Lynchburg, Va., during the first quarter of 2021, the naval reactor maker and nuclear services company reported after markets closed Monday. […]