Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationUT Needs Extra $7 Million to Take Over LANL, if It Wins the Contract
A leaked report from a nominally independent office within the National Nuclear Security Administration offers a trove of new details about the cost estimate for a plan the agency must […]
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BudgetHouse Panel’s 2019 NNSA Budget Cans Interoperable Warhead, Jump-Starts LANL Pits
A draft 2019 budget bill up for a vote in the House today would steer the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) away from creating a nuclear warhead that could fly […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Perry Waives Requirement to Build MOX Plant; Says Alternative is More Than $20 Billion Cheaper
It will cost about $20 billion to dispose of 34 metric tons of surplus weapon-grade plutonium by burying it in the New Mexico desert, compared with almost $50 billion to […]
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Nuclear Modernization
House Subcommittee Passes 2019 DoE Budget Bill; Full Committee Markup TBD
The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee approved a roughly $36 billion Department of Energy budget bill Monday, which heads to the full committee for a markup that had […]
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Navy/USMCHead of BWXT Nuclear Operations Group Leaving After June; Head Lawyer Also to Depart
Joseph Henry, president and chief operating officer of BWX Technologies’ Nuclear Operations Group, will retire June 30, the company disclosed Monday in a regulatory filing. It was not immediately clear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationWhite House Wants $65M For DOE Work On Low-Yield Warhead In 2019
The White House wants $65 million in fiscal 2019 for the Department of Energy’s work on the low-yield ballistic-missile warhead called for in the latest Nuclear Posture Review, a weapon […]
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Budget
White House Wants $65M For DOE Work On Low-Yield Warhead In 2019
The White House wants $65 million in fiscal 2019 for the Department of Energy’s work on the low-yield ballistic-missile warhead called for in the latest Nuclear Posture Review, a weapon […]
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Budget
Projected NNSA Budgets Can Handle Low-Yield Warhead, DoE Officials Tell Congress
Energy Secretary Rick Perry and the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) both assured Congress last week that the two new low-yield warheads called for in the Trump […]
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BudgetProjected NNSA Budgets Can Handle Low-Yield Warhead, DoE Officials Tell Congress
Energy Secretary Rick Perry and the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) both assured Congress last week that the two new low-yield warheads called for in the Trump […]
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Budget
DoE, DoD Officials Won’t Talk Timeline on NNSA
In separate congressional hearings here Tuesday, senior Energy and Defense officials declined to pin down the date at which the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) might start modifying an existing […]