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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationDepartment of Energy Says First Low-Yield, Sub-Launched Nuke Warhead is Ready for Battle
The Department of Energy certified Friday that a new low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead is battle ready, the agency said Monday. In a late-Monday press release, the agency’s semi-autonomous National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSecond TVA Reactor Could Be Licensed for Tritium Production This Year, NNSA Says
The second of two Tennessee Valley Authority civilian nuclear reactors could get the license it needs to start producing tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons this year, a National Nuclear Security […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLow Yield Nuclear SLCM Might Wait Until Well After LRSO, Pentagon Official Says
It could take a decade to build the low-yield, nuclear-tipped, sea-launched cruise missile the Trump administration called for last year, and development might not be able to start until the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE to Hone Procurement Approach for Warhead-Core Factory by Next Year
The Department of Energy will hone its acquisition approach for the plutonium-pit plant to be at the Savannah River Site around September 2020, a long-time agency contractor said on Wednesday. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationFirst W76-2 Finished at Pantex in January, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in January completed its first low-yield, submarine-launched, ballistic-missile warhead, which now awaits a final design review in Texas before the agency can ship it […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPentagon ‘Satisfied’ With NNSA Pit Plan, But Warns Civilian Agency is ‘Out of Margin’
The Defense Department remains satisfied with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) strategy to produce plutonium pits at two facilities, but time is short to get started, a senior Pentagon […]
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CongressNNSA No. 2 Nominee Still in Holding Pattern in Senate Committee
The Senate Armed Services Committee still has the nominee for the No. 2 spot at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in a holding pattern, the nominee himself said here […]
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Business/FinancialBWXT Says $2 Billion in Naval Reactor Contracts Coming
BWX Technologies [BWXT] expects to finalize some $2 billion in nuclear naval nuclear propulsion contracts in the first quarter of 2019, the Lynchburg, Va., company said Monday before financial markets opened. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHouse Dems Bring Back Bill to Ban Low-Yield Nuke Warhead
House Democrats on Thursday introduced a bill to ban the low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic-missile warhead the National Nuclear Security Administration recently acknowledged it has begun producing. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) leads […]
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InternationalNo INF-Range Nuke Systems Planned After U.S. Treaty Withdrawal, For Now
The United States will suspend its obligations under the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty on Saturday, meaning it will be free to deploy missiles with a range of […]