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Nuclear ModernizationLawyers Drop Plaintiffs Who Sued CNS Over Allegedly Lost Wages; Cite Conflict
Three employees who claim Consolidated Nuclear Security illegally withheld more than $10 million in wages from a big group of employees need new lawyers after their attorneys quit last week, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Says It Removed Some Lawsuit-Related Plutonium From South Carolina
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in December removed some surplus, weapon-usable plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the agency said Friday. The agency did not say […]
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Nuclear ModernizationFleischmann To Lead DOE Appropriations Subcommittee
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) will chair the appropriations subcommittee that writes the first draft of the Department of Energy’s annual spending bill, the full committee confirmed Monday. Fleischmann takes the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Has No Reliable Schedule, Cost Estimates For Pits, GAO Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) planned to have a detailed cost and schedule estimate for producing new nuclear weapon cores for the first time since the Cold War by […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPermanent Leadership For New NNSA Headquarters Offices to Be Set by October, Agency Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans by Oct. 31 to have permanent leadership for the three new procurement- and infrastructure-focused offices it created last year when it broke up […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Adds to Nuclear Fuel Services’ Uranium Purification Contract
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is adding about $10 million of work to the first phase of Nuclear Fuel Services’ contract to purify uranium for the secondary stages of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA to Make Converdyn Contract for Uranium Reserve Official
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to award Converdyn a five-year, sole-source contract to convert triuranium octoxide into uranium hexafluoride as part of a new federal uranium stockpiling program. […]
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Congress
Compromise NDAA Ratchets Up Authorized Budget For DoE Nuclear Weapons; Allows Retirement of Some Bombs
A compromise National Defense Authorization Act released late Tuesday would authorize the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to spend some $880 million more than requested, more than the House or […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLANL Prime Is Latest To Have Entire Option Package Picked Up By NNSA; On Through November 2028
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) extended Los Alamos National Laboratory management and operations contractor Triad National Security for five more years, through Nov. 1, 2028, the agency said Tuesday. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Nuclear Weapons Agency Moving Away From One-Year Options On Major Site Contracts
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is poised to move beyond what its administrator recently characterized as an outmoded system of requiring the contractors who manage major nuclear-weapon sites to […]
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