Sarah Salem
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UncategorizedGAO Recommended NNSA Improve ‘Decentralized’ Reporting On Risks To Industrial Base
The Government Accountability Office said in a report last week that the National Nuclear Security Administration “does not clearly communicate” its needs to Congress on risks to its industrial base. […]
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CongressSASC Chair Suggests Reconciliation Should Include $175 Billion For Defense
Amid a possible shutdown later in the week, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services on Wednesday pledged his support for the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed by the House but […]
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DoE Issues Return To Office Schedule For Most Employees
The Department of Energy issued a memo dated Thursday Feb. 27 saying telework and remote work agreements will be terminated, with exceptions, and all employees will return to in-person work. […]
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Fleischmann Cites ‘Workforce Shortage’ in NNSA, but Oak Ridge Unaffected By Firings
Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), whose district abuts Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said Tuesday the nuclear enterprise was facing a “workforce shortage.” Fleischmann, who chairs a […]
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Acting NNSA Head Says Unfired Employees Have Been Contacted, Returned to Work
Teresa Robbins, acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, told sister publication The Exchange Monitor Tuesday that everyone whose firing was rescinded at the agency was successfully contacted and has […]
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B61-12 LEP Sustainment Begins After Last Production Unit Produced
The B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb’s life extension program has “fully transitioned into the stockpile” after its last production unit was produced in December, Sandia National Laboratories said Monday in a […]
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BWXT Announces $2.1 Billion in Naval Nuclear Reactor Contracts
BWX Technologies [BWXT] has been awarded U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program contracts, worth a total of $2.1 billion, to manufacture reactor components, the company said Wednesday. The BWXT Nuclear Operations […]
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After Backlash, White House Reverses Most NNSA Terminations
The Trump administration paused on firing hundreds of federal employees that worked on the nation’s nuclear weapons for the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration, media outlets reported. Late last Thursday, […]
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Livermore Director Says Office Closed Due To Executive Order Ending DEI
Kim Budil, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, said Wednesday the lab closed an office due to President Trump’s executive order ending “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programs in […]
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UCS Questions ‘Rush’ to Los Alamos Pit Production
A representative from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Tuesday said government urgency for plutonium pit production at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is […]
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