A Sandia National Laboratories building where the lab conducts performance tests on non-nuclear nuclear-weapons components opened back up for its regular work schedule Monday after closing down for a COVID-19 deep-cleaning, the labs network said. Sandia said last week that one person in Building ...

Michelle Reichert will become president of Consolidation Nuclear Security, the outgoing management and operations contractor for the Y-12 National Security Site and the Pantex Plant, next week, the Bechtel National-led company said Friday. Reichert, the currently chief operating officer for the ...

The chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee used a Thursday nomination hearing to spotlight his opposition to House legislation that would made it harder for the Department of Energy to collaborate with the Pentagon on future nuclear-weapons budget requests — something, he believed, that � ...

A day after the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico had mostly reopened Building 823 after a case of COVID-19 among its workforce, the Department of Energy facility had to close down Building 720 after the disease caused by the novel coronavirus 2019 popped up there as well. Building 720, ...

While the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test on Aug. 4 of an unarmed LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM with three test reentry vehicles, such tests with dummy, Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRV) are uncommon. There appear to have been just three MIRV ICBM tests ...

The Department of Energy kicked off procurement of the next Savannah River Site management and operations contract by publishing a request for information from industry about a pact that will fund the Aiken, S.C., site’s biggest nuclear-weapons programs. DoE will sort out the value, duration and ...