Nuclear Modernization
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Business/FinancialDoE Delays Decision About Extending Nuke Production Contract
Because of COVID-19, Consolidated Nuclear Security, site management and operations contractor for two of the Department of Energy’s weapons-production sites, will wait perhaps until June to find out what fee […]
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COVID-19Civilian Nuke Assembly Site Confirms First COVID-19 Case
There is at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 among the workforce of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, where the Department of Energy assembles and disassembles nuclear weapons for […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHoneywell Appoints New Prez for Nuke-Weapon Parts Hub
Eric Wollerman will become Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies effective April 30, the manager of the Kansas City National Security Campus announced. At the end of the month, the buck […]
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Nuclear ModernizationU.S., Russia, Reduced Strategic Deployments Over Last Six Months, Latest New START Data Show
The United States and Russia were each deploying fewer strategic nuclear weapons as of March 1 than they did six months earlier, according to the Department of State’s latest data […]
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COVID-19Centrus Centrifuges Among First Projected DoE Work Delays Due to COVID-19
Nearly a month after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, production of Centrus Energy Corp.’s new all-domestic enrichment cascade in Ohio is one of the first projects for the Department […]
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COVID-19Kansas City is Latest NNSA Facility to Expand Telework, Limit On-Site Personnel
The Kansas City National Security Campus is moving some of its workforce off-site to help cope with COVID-19, making it the latest Department of Energy civilian nuclear weapons site to […]
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COVID-19Worker at DoE Nuke Production Site Has COVID-19
COVID-19 has hit the nuclear weapons production complex, with one employee at the Y-12 National Security Campus testing positive for the disease, a spokesperson for site’s management and operations contract […]
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COVID-19DoE Nuke Site Has Positive COVID-19 Case; Agency Tracking Disease-related Expenses; Mo. Weapons Factory Exempted From Lockdown
The Savannah River Site will shift to minimum mission essential operations after an employee at the DoE nuclear weapons and cleanup site tested positive for COVID-19, the agency said Monday. […]
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COVID-19Savannah River Nuke Site Ramps Up Emergency Response Team for COVID-19
The Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina is activating its Infectious Disease Response Team to help navigate the COVID-19 crisis, the nuclear weapons and nuclear cleanup site […]
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COVID-19At Nuke Production Sites, Full Steam Ahead — With Precautions — Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
As the nuclear weapons laboratories begin, or continue, mass teleworking amid the COVID-19 pandemic, production sites with work already in the pipeline are still chugging along at about full staff […]