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Dan Leone
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Nuclear ModernizationPerfect Storm of Labor, Material, Pandemic Drove Delays to Uranium Processing Facility NNSA Administrator Says
Materials shortages and labor productivity drove a two-year delay to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) next factory for nuclear-weapon secondary stages, the head of agency said Thursday. As a […]
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COVID-19Masks Back Off at Los Alamos as COVID Transmission Rates Drop
The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s latest mask mandate lasted only three days, after which COVID-19 community transmission rates dropped below high, according to a lab memo. The New Mexico nuclear […]
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Business/FinancialJacobs Caps Profitable 2022; Sees Surge In Nuclear Business
Jacobs [J], the Dallas-based leader and member of various Department of Energy nuclear contractors, had a good fiscal 2022, with revenue and profit each rising for the year, the company […]
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Nuclear ModernizationMasks Back on at Los Alamos National Laboratory
The Los Alamos National Laboratory again ordered employees and visitors to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 after transmission rates in the area rose, according to an internal […]
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Court Won’t Intervene to Help Los Alamos COVID Objectors in Arbitration at Lab
People placed on leave from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for refusing a COVID-19 vaccinations will get no help from the courts in ongoing arbitration proceedings with the lab, a […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBiden Posture Review Stays Course For NNSA; Unveils ‘Three Pillars’ Plan For Agency
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will create a new risk management strategy with the Pentagon, mandate more regular infusions of new technology into nuclear-weapons design and manufacture and build […]
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Ditch Award Fees For Prime Contractors; M&O Parent Cos. of Little Help, New NNSA Report Says
The prime contractors for civilian nuclear-weapon sites get no “lasting benefit” from their corporate parent companies, the interests of which may conflict with national security, a small group of National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHead of Nevada Site Prime To Step Down
Mark Martinez planned to retire as president of Mission Support and Test Services, the Honeywell [HON]-led prime contractor for the Nevada National Security Site, according to people familiar with Martinez’s […]
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Nuclear ModernizationWhite House Statement on Senate NDAA Still Opposes SLCM-N, B83, But No Veto Threat
Congress should not authorize or fund a nuclear-tipped, lower-yield sea-launched cruise missile or save a megaton-class gravity bomb, the White House said again Tuesday. The message was part of a […]
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Business/FinancialA Year-Plus After Renationalization, Effect of Lost U.K. Weapons Complex Shows at Lockheed Martin
In the nine months just ended, renationalization of the U.K. nuclear weapons complex cost Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Space segment more than three quarters of a billion dollars, the company reported […]
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