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Dan Leone
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BudgetNew DoE Secretary Backs Big Budget Increase for Civilian Nuclear Weapons Programs in 2021
The roughly $20 billion budget the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration requested on Monday is “the right number” to reverse a decade of “neglect” in the U.S. nuclear-weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDepartment of Energy Warns of Possible Delay Delivering Nuclear Weapon Components
The Honeywell [HON]-led company in charge of building the non-nuclear parts of nuclear weapons might have trouble delivering some of those components on time in 2020 and beyond, the Department of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAir Force Tests Minuteman III Missile One Year From Expiration of New START
The Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the early morning hours on Wednesday, testing a new fuze that will set off the nuclear warhead tipping […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPentagon Confirms Navy Has Deployed Low-Yield SLBM
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it has deployed the W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched, ballistic-missile nuclear warhead. “The U.S. Navy has fielded the W76-2 low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead,” the Defense […]
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Nuclear ModernizationEx-Nuke Lab Scientist To Be Sentenced In April For Alleged Lies About Chinese Connection
A federal judge is scheduled on April 22 to sentence a former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist who has pleaded guilty to lying about his relationship with a Chinese talent […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Backs Off Drive To Speed Up Pit Production At Los Alamos
Last spring, the Department of Energy quietly backed off a drive to produce 30 pits a year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier than the agency’s long-established target of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Dipping Into Cold War Leftovers for Future Depleted Uranium Needs
The Department of Energy has decided to use a Cold War nuclear weapons cleanup in Ohio to help produce high-purity depleted uranium metal for nuclear weapons programs. The civilian agency’s […]
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Navy/USMCSmith Is New Columbia Program Director At Huntington Ingalls
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] appointed Brandi Smith program director of the Columbia-class submarine program at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, the shipbuilding subcontractor for the Navy’s next nuclear-armed ballistic-missile […]
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NNSA Extends JASONs Contract for One Year
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is extending its contract with the panel of scientists known as JASON for up to a year, while the Pentagon works to resurrect its […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo Plan to Consolidate Pit Mission at Single Site, But DoE Won’t Deny the Possibility
The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would not rule out the possibility here Thursday that one of the agency’s two planned plutonium pit factories could independently supply […]