The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Thursday it put together the first war-ready B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb on Nov. 23, paving the way to create an estimated 480 of the weapons, which will homogenize four existing variants of the bomb. The agency “anticipates starting ...
Nuclear Modernization
In a revised complaint that they hope will convince a federal judge to block expected firings arising from a COVID vaccine mandate at the Savannah River Site, employees who have not taken a vaccine argued that the civilian nuclear site’s operations contractor effectively pressured two employees ...
A team led by Fluor [FLR] won the potentially 10-year, $28-billion contract to manage the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) two big nuclear-weapon production facilities in Tennessee and Texas. The team beat out at least two other bids — one led by BWX Technologies [BWXT] and ...
About 100 people are already working at a new Kansas City National Security Campus satellite facility that opened in October just down the road from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s main factory for non-nuclear nuclear weapon parts, a spokesperson said Tuesday. For the moment, ...
Profits at Jacobs Engineering, Dallas, fell 3% for the fiscal year ended Oct. 1 as revenue rose by proportionally the same amount, the company said Tuesday morning in its latest earnings release. Net earnings for the year were about $477 million, or $3.20 a share, down from more than $490 million, ...
Australian personnel will be able to access training and information about U.S. and U.K. nuclear naval propulsion as part of the latest progress in the three-way AUKUS agreement to transfer nuclear submarine technology to Canberra, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday. The agreement ...