Nuclear Modernization
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COVID-19New Mexico Nuke-Lab Building Reopens After COVID-19 Case
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 […]
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Business/FinancialHelm Change at Outgoing Prime Contractor for DoE Nuke Site
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 […]
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Congress‘Some People’ in DoE Want to Shield NNSA Budget Negotiations From Pentagon, Inhofe Says
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 […]
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COVID-19
DoE Opening, Closing Buildings at Nuke Engineering Lab After COVID-19 Cases
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 […]
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Air ForceMultiple Reentry Vehicle Tests of Minuteman III Uncommon
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, […]
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Business/FinancialDoE Kicks Off Competition for Contract That Will Fund Nuke-Core Work for ICBMs
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 […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Biz Insulates BWXT From Worst of Pandemic Ills; Partial Va. Sub Order Suits Company Fine, CEO Says
Insulated from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic by its large government contracts and a bread-and-butter nuclear Navy business that didn’t shut down in the spring, BWX Technologies [BWXT] posted […]
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Business/FinancialDraft Solicitation for New Pantex-Y-12 Contract Coming This Month, NNSA Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will continue to bundle management of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas in the post Consolidated Nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Budget Needs Threatening Other Defense Programs, GAO Repeats
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office covered some old ground last week: the bigger budget the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) says it needs to keep planned programs […]
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CongressHouse Passes $18B Budget for DoE Nukes, White House Threatens Veto
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a $1.3 trillion “minibus” appropriations package that would give the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) $2 billion less than it requested for fiscal […]