Nuclear Modernization
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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 […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo Pandemic Delay Yet for Navy, AF Nuke Refurbs, DoE Official Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) still plans to produce the first copy of a refurbished Navy submarine warhead in 2021, and the first copy of a refurbished nuclear gravity […]
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COVID-19‘Many’ COVID-19 Transmissions at DoE Nuke Sites Were Outside of Work, Senior Official Says
“Many” of the nearly 250 National Nuclear Security Administration employees confirmed to have caught COVID-19 are believed to have contracted the disease while teleworking, the head of the nuclear-weapons agency […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Should Delay Nuclear Warhead For Cruise Missile or Justify Why it Won’t, GAO Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration should either delay by a year its promised delivery-date for the proof-of-concept unit of the next-generation nuclear cruise-missile warhead, or justify why it won’t, the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTurner Proposes Small Funding Boost for DoE Nuke Weapons Programs
The House Rules Committee on Monday decided not to write rules of debate for a package of spending bills that includes 2021 funding for Department of Energy nuclear weapons programs, […]
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COVID-19DoE Headquarters, Site See Jump in Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
The Department of Energy confirmed five new cases of COVID-19 among the staff of its Washington, D.C., area headquarters, including someone who was at the office recently, in a statement […]
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COVID-19COVID-19 Cases At NNSA Up By 26 As Y-12 Worker Dies
An employee at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee died last week from COVID-19, as confirmed cases of the disease across the Department of Energy’s active nulcear-weapons complex again […]
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COVID-19DoE Headquarters Not Going Back to Normal Anytime Soon
With COVID-19 cases on the rise nationwide and Washington, D.C.-area school systems wondering whether they’ll reopen for in-person classes in the fall, the Department of Energy will no longer require […]
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CongressChair of House Energy Committee Rips ‘Rogue’ DoE Nuclear Weapons Agency
The Secretary of Energy should get more control over the agency’s nuclear weapons programs, not less, the head of the House committee that makes policy for the department’s non-nuclear-weapons programs […]