Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationDelays Mount For Underground Lab Upgrades Seen As Critical For New Navy Nuke
Upgrades to a nuclear-weapon test facility in Nevada are falling further behind schedule, government officials and weapon-site managers said Wednesday. Officially called Enhanced Capability for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE), the upgrades […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore’s Next Subcritical Test Coming This Year
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was set to fire the first test in its Nimble series of subcritical experiments in the late summer, a senior lab official said Wednesday. “The […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Performs Sentinel Wind Tunnel Testing
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 16 that it executed wind tunnel tests of its LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM for the U.S. Air Force. “Using scaled models of the vehicle, stressed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPossible To Get 30 Pits at Los Alamos Before 2030, Lab Director Says
The Los Alamos National Laboratory might still be able to make 30 nuclear-weapon cores before 2030, even though the equipment needed to do it is not supposed to be ready […]
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Nuclear Modernization80-plus Pits Needed Annually in Future; Savannah River to Pick Up the Slack, NNSA Admin Says
With delays piling up for its two planned plutonium pit factories, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) already believes it will have to exceed the military’s minimum annual order for […]
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Nuclear ModernizationShifting Military Requirements Changed Design of New ICBM Pit; First Unit Delayed
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) changed the design for the nuclear core of a planned intercontinental ballistic missile warhead late last year, a senior agency official said Tuesday. Altering […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNew Livermore ‘Model Contract’ Could Help Shape Coming Competition for Pantex, NNSA Official Says
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will serve as a test-bed for some of the changes the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to make to the big site-management contracts of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLongtime Government Hands Leading NNSA Takeover of Savannah River Site
Two long standing government bosses, Jeffrey Allison and Randall Hendrickson, lead a joint team working out details of transferring responsibility for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South […]
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CongressSenate Nuclear-Weapons Panel Keeps Leaders, Has Minimal Roster Changes in 118th Congress
Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) will continue as the chair and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee in the 118th Congress, the committee […]
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InternationalChina Now Has More ICBM Launchers Than U.S., STRATCOM Tells Lawmakers
China has surpassed the U.S. in its number of land-based fixed and mobile launchers for intercontinental continental ballistic missiles, a group of Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday. Reps. Mike Rogers […]