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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Seeks $53 Million for W93 in Fiscal 2021; Won’t Detail Timeline for Producing Weapon
The Department of Energy is seeking $53 million in fiscal year 2021 for the proposed W93 sea-based, ballistic-missile warhead: two years sooner than the agency previously thought it would need […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDems Ask DoD to Explain W76-2 Use Plans, Effect on NNSA Complex
The latest wave of opposition to the lower-yield W76-2 warhead the Navy deployed last year crested Wednesday, when five Senators asked Secretary of Defense Mark Esper what the Pentagon might […]
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Navy/USMCBWX Technologies Reels in NNSA Reactor Component Contract for Carriers
The Department of Energy’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program in late 2019 awarded BWX Technologies [BWXT] a roughly $1 billion contract to provide reactor components for Ford-class aircraft carriers, the Lynchburg, Va.-based company […]
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Business/FinancialNNSA to Contract for More JASON Work by April
The Department of Energy plans to issue the MITRE Corp.-funded JASON group of civilian scientists more nuclear security work by the end of April, according to a procurement note published […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPlanned W93 Warhead Will Contribute to new U.K. Nuke, DOD Officials Say
The proposed W93 sea-launched warhead, the nuclear tip of planned next-generation U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missiles, will share technology with United Kingdom’s next nuclear weapon, Pentagon officials said Thursday. W93 will […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDecision On Next U.S. Uranium Enrichement Tech Pushed To ‘End Of Year’ To Give Oak Ridge ‘Fair Shot’ Against Centrus
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Nuclear Security Administration delayed a choice about whether to use government or commercially developed uranium enrichment technology for defense needs by nearly a year because […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSavannah River Pit Plant Design to be Finished by End of June
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Department of Energy contractor in charge of the Savannah River Site plans to finalize by June the design for a new pit plant capable of making […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLANL, LLNL Directors Won’t Say Who’d Own W93 Sea-Based Warhead; Hint at Competition
It remained uncertain Monday whether Los Alamos National Laboratory or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory would design the proposed, sea-based W93 warhead after the directors of each lab declined to say […]
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UncategorizedAfter Slips, First Versions of Refurbed Nukes Coming in 2022, 2021
After delays attributed to unsuitable electrical components, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) now plans to manufacture the first refurbished B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb and W88 Alt-370 submarine-launched ballistic-missile warhead […]
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Nuclear ModernizationProposed W93 Warhead Would Be Rapidly Upgradable, Serviceable by Navy
The Department of Energy made post Cold War-history in its 2021 budget request, which seeks funds to develop a new sea-based nuclear warhead designated Mk7 W93 — a new warhead […]
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