Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationPerry 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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BudgetWhite 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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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 […]
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Nuclear Modernization
DoE Should Publish Plan for ‘Entire Nuclear Security Enterprise,’ National Academies Says
The new head of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, in office less than a month, should direct the agency to produce an overarching plan for the future […]
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Nuclear Modernization
W88 Warhead Upgrade Nailed Final Design Review, NNSA Says
A civil-military panel approved designs for an upgrade of the W88 nuclear ballistic missile warhead carried aboard U.S. submarines, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said Jan. 16. Panel members, […]