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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationStudy of Nuclear, Sea-Launched Cruise Missile To Begin in FY 2020
The Department of Energy and the Pentagon could be studying a new nuclear-armed, sea-launched cruise missile by this time next year, the Energy Department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) […]
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Nuclear Modernization
New Contractor to Take Over Main U.S. Nuke Lab Thursday
Triad National Security is set on Thursday to take over management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, ending a decade-long experiment in running the nation’s oldest nuclear […]
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Nuclear Modernization
DoE Already Moving Plutonium Out of S.C. for Weapons Work in New Mexico
The Department of Energy on Monday said it has started moving a metric ton of plutonium out of South Carolina after three federal appeals judges on Friday shot down the […]
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UncategorizedEx-Gov’t Officials See Two Options for New Nuclear Armed INF-Range Missile
Former government officials suggested Tuesday the Trump administration could reach for either the retired W84 warhead or the workhorse W80 warhead if it wants a nuclear-tipped option in the post-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Lobbyist Who Worked to Keep DoE From Turning Arms-Disposal Facility Into Nuke Weapon Plant Laid Off
Longtime Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility lobbyist Stephen Marlo was laid off on Friday, the veteran government-affairs man told Defense Daily in a telephone interview. Marlo was let go by Aptim, the […]
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Members of S.C. Delegation Confirms WH Visit to Save Embattled Plutonium Plant, But Won’t Talk Details
A delegation of high-profile South Carolina politicians met with President Donald Trump Thursday in Washington to make a last-minute plea to save an embattled plutonium-disposal plant in the Palmetto state — […]
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Department of Energy Starts Process to Turn Plutonium Disposal Plant Into Weapon Factory
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) last week notified MOX Services that the agency will terminate the company’s contract to build a long-delayed plutonium disposal plant at the Savannah River Site in […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Appeals Court Paves Path to Convert DoE Facility in South Carolina for Weapons Work
A federal appeals court on Tuesday effectively cleared the Department of Energy to cancel construction of a controversial plutonium disposal plant under construction in South Carolina. The decision, which followed […]
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Nuclear Modernization
HASC Chair Has Not Planned Hearing on Bill to Ban Low-Yield Warhead
The House Armed Services Committee so far does not plan a hearing on a Democrat-sponsored bill to ban development of a low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, the panel’s chairman said […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Senior Pentagon Official Likes NNSA Warhead-Core Approach, Frustrated by Production Status
It would make sense for the Department of Energy to have more than one production facility for the fissile cores of nuclear warheads, a senior Pentagon official with broad responsibility […]