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Nuclear ModernizationDoE and Nuke Production Site Prime Deescalate Contract Dispute
The Department of Energy and its prime contractor for the two main U.S. civilian nuclear-weapons production sites agreed in early October to end a contractual dispute before it escalated to […]
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Nuclear Modernization‘Integrated Team’ To Hash Out Savannah River Site’s Transfer To Nuclear-Weapons Agency
The Department of Energy could be prepared to start transferring control of the Savannah River Site to its semiautonomous nuclear-weapons agency in bits and pieces starting around 2023, a spokesperson […]
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Savannah River Site to be Transferred to NNSA Control by 2025, DoE Confirms
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will take over the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by 2025, and the transition has started, the Department of Energy confirmed Tuesday. The […]
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Nuclear ModernizationWork on Competition For New Nuke Production Contracts Starting in 2023-24, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration planned to start work on a competition for a pair of new contracts to manage its main nuclear-weapon sites in 2023 and 2024, the agency […]
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UncategorizedParts of Savannah River Pit Plant Could Be Under Construction By Year’s End, Site Prime Says
Subcontractors could begin building a planned plutonium pit factory at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by Dec. 31, the site’s prime contractor said Monday in a press release. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore Lab Director Budil Arrested For Driving Under the Influence, Speeding
Kimberly Budil, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), admitted last week to all hands at the California nuclear-weapons design lab that she had been arrested for driving under […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCOVID-19 Created More Than a Year’s Worth of Delays for Pit Production at Los Alamos, Lab Said
Due primarily to COVID-19, Los Alamos National Laboratory believed it could take a year longer than expected for the the lab to casting 10 plutonium pits annually in New Mexico, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Plans To Finalize New Cybersecurity Directive in April, Agency Tells GAO
Organizations within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) bureaucracy are reviewing a draft cybersecurity directive the agency wrote after a third-party review, the weapons steward told the Government Accountability Office […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSentinel ICBM is ‘Real,’ Northrop Exec Says After Company Produces First Inert Stages
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sentinel, the next nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile, is a “real program,” a senior executive with the rocket’s prime contractor said here Wednesday at an industry conference. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationMass Production of Refurbished Nuclear Weapons Could Begin Soon, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) still awaits the all-clear from the Pentagon to begin mass refurbishment of its arsenal of B61 gravity bombs and W88 submarine-launched ballistic missile warheads, […]
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