Nuclear Modernization
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Announces Test of Sentinel Stage Two Solid Rocket Motor
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Jan. 16 that it has conducted a live, static-fire test of a stage-two solid rocket motor (SRM) for the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile at […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLatest Federal Budget Extension Has Emergency Funding to Avert Layoffs at Y-12
House and Senate appropriators on Sunday agreed to extend 2023 budgets for federal agencies for about another month-and-a-half, into March, while they continue work on permanent budget bills for the […]
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Air ForceFormer DTRA Official Argues for Some Sentinels to Be Mobile
Robert Peters, the former chief of strategic trends and effects for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) from 2019 to 2022, argues that some of the future Northrop Grumman [NOC] […]
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Navy/USMCHouston Takes Over Top Post at Naval Nuclear Propulsion
More than six months after his nomination, and just shy of a month after his Senate confirmation, Adm. Bill Houston on Thursday took over as director of the Naval Nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationParsons Gets $21 Million Deal For Los Alamos Construction Management
Parsons [PSN] announced the award of a $21 million task order by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Office of Infrastructure to continue managing construction projects at Los Alamos National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationMass Production of B61-12, W88 Alt 370 At Halfway Point
Some time between October and December, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) programs to refurbish its B61 bombs and W88 warheads reached the halfway mark, an agency spokesperson said Monday. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore Lab Develops New Tool To Simulate Using Nukes To Deflect Asteroids Away From Earth
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a new tool to model how blowing up a nuclear weapon might stop an asteroid from slamming into Earth. Published in December in […]
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Navy/USMCHouston Confirmed By Senate To Lead Naval Reactors, Cleared For Promotion To Admiral
About six months after his nomination, the Senate on Tuesday confirmed Vice Adm. William Houston to be director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program that develops reactors for Navy warships […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDNFSB Wants NNSA Response To Worker Concerns By Jan. 19
A federal nuclear safety watchdog wants the National Nuclear Security Administration to respond to concerns over worker safety at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility in just over a month. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNDAA Would Bar Plutonium-Cleanup Expansion Until LANL Can Make 30 Pits Per Year
The Los Alamos National Laboratory would be barred from expanding equipment needed to dispose of surplus plutonium until the lab certifies it can produce at least 30 nuclear weapon cores […]
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