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Dan Parsons
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA, Nuclear Weapons Fully Funded Through Compromise Bill
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) stands to see its roughly $24 billion budget request fulfilled under the compromise funding agreement reached by Congress this week. The bill includes just […]
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Air ForceAir Force General Says Sentinel Can Be Tipped With Multiple Warheads
The U.S. Air Force is prepared to put multiple nuclear warheads atop its new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missiles if called to do so, according to the officer in charge of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Investigating Loss of Criticality Controls at Y-12 Uranium Processing Facility
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Enterprise Assessments is investigating an incident at the Y-12 National Security Complex in which a machine used to shape uranium was dismantled […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLos Alamos Workforce Will Level Off at About 20,000 By 2025, Triad Official Says
The recent unprecedented expansion of the Los Alamos National Laboratory workforce will continue for at least another year before leveling out at around 2,0000 employees, a senior lab official told […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Spending Will Top $75 Billion Per Year Over Next Decade, Mostly To Modernize Triad
Over the next decade, the U.S. will spend an estimated $756 billion on modernizing and maintaining its current and future nuclear forces, or about $75 billion per year, a new […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHASC Vice Chair Says Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile ‘Incredibly Important’
The House version of the 2024 defense authorization act includes funding to develop a nuclear-tipped seal-launched cruise missile, and the program will make it into law despite the White House’s […]
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CongressJoint Chiefs Chair Nominee Will Look For Gaps in U.S. Nuke Arsenal, Upgrade NNSA Stockpile Stewardship
If confirmed as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. C. Q. Brown vows support for nuclear weapons modernization efforts underway at the U.S. National […]
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CongressRecord 1500 NDAA Amendments Include Deadline Extension for Plutonium Pit Production
Some of the 1,502 amendments filed in the House for an annual defense policy bill deal directly with the U.S. nuclear weapons enterprise, including a call to allow the National […]
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UncategorizedDoE Nuke Agency Plans Two Subcritical Explosive Tests at Nevada in Fiscal 2024
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to perform two subcritical explosive experiments at the Nevada National Security Site in the fiscal year that ends Oct. 1, 2024, according to […]
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UncategorizedReactor Supply Okay Ahead of Navy’s Historic Boat-Building Boom, Admiral Says
There should be no shortage of naval nuclear reactors when the U.S. shipbuilding industry begins churning out historic numbers of submarines before the end of the decade, the Navy’s senior […]