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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationSTRATCOM Warns Against Triad Trimming, State Pushes Verifiable Warhead Freeze
On Wednesday, top U.S. officials in Washington warned against cutting the U.S. nuclear arsenal or agreeing to extend a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia without assurances that Moscow’s promised […]
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Nuclear ModernizationRussia Appears to Offer One-Year New START Extension for Warhead Freeze — and No Other Conditions
The Russian Federation on Tuesday appeared to offer a one-year extension of the New START nuclear arms-limitation treaty with the U.S., as long as a politically binding, bilateral warhead freeze […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPlanned South Carolina Nuke Core Plant Seeking ‘Stable Funding Source’
With late-stage design activities underfunded for most of the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, the Department of Energy is passing around the hat for a planned pit-production plant to […]
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Nuclear Modernization‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ on New START Appears to Fall Apart; Russia Seeks 1-Year Extension, No Strings
The Kremlin is open to a one-year extension of the New START nuclear arms control treaty, but not on the terms the White House has proposed, according to a widely […]
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Nuclear ModernizationComplicated Restart of Niobium Alloy Production at DoE Could Delay Nuclear Weapons Deliveries, GAO Says
Future nuclear weapons programs will be delayed if the Department of Energy is not able to produce depleted-uranium-niobium alloy ingots in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in the next three years, according […]
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Business/FinancialNext Y-12/Pantex Contract Won’t Draw Protest, Will Happen on Time, NNSA Acquisition Boss Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) enterprise-wide procurement honcho predicted a competition to pick a new management contractor for the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Complex would conclude […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBillingslea Issues Clarion Call to Arms Control Community as ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ on New START Appears to Fall Apart
The Trump administration’s lead nuclear negotiator on Tuesday called on the arms control community to publicly back the White House’s drive to condition an indeterminate extension of the New START […]
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COVID-19Nuke Engineering Labs Had Nine New COVID Cases Last Week
The Sandia National Laboratories confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 among its workforce last week, raising the lab network’s total since the start of the outbreak to 86 cases. As […]
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Business/FinancialMore Big Companies, Another University Hopeful, Looking at DoE Nuke Production-Site Contract
A pair of university systems plus just about every major contractor to run the sites in the last decade-plus were among the 49 entities whose representatives toured the Y-12 National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Clears CARES Reimbursements for COVID Leave to Continue
As soon as Congress approved it, the Secretary of Energy cleared agency contractors to continue billing the government for paid time off given to workers who cannot do their jobs […]