The second of two Tennessee Valley Authority civilian nuclear reactors could get the license it needs to start producing tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons this year, a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) official said on Thursday. The government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) ...

It could take a decade to build the low-yield, nuclear-tipped, sea-launched cruise missile the Trump administration called for last year, and development might not be able to start until the Pentagon finishes a next-generation, air-launched nuclear missile, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. ...

The Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General (DOD OIG) plans to evaluate 11 separate efforts related to space, nuclear deterrence and missile defense in fiscal year 2019, including whether the Air Force properly certified SpaceX for military launch missions. The DOD OIG released its ...

The Department of Energy will hone its acquisition approach for the plutonium-pit plant to be at the Savannah River Site around September 2020, a long-time agency contractor said on Wednesday. Fluor [FLR]-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the Savannah River site management contractor, is on ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in January completed its first low-yield, submarine-launched, ballistic-missile warhead, which now awaits a final design review in Texas before the agency can ship it off to the Navy, an agency official said Tuesday. NNSA finished building the ...

The Defense Department remains satisfied with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) strategy to produce plutonium pits at two facilities, but time is short to get started, a senior Pentagon official said here. “DoD is fully behind the NNSA’s current plan,” Peter Fanta, ...