Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationSenate Appropriators Want to Keep Interoperable Warhead
Senate appropriators favor continuing sustaining an Obama-era program to create a so-called interoperable nuclear warhead that could fly on future Air Force and Navy missiles — a program their House […]
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Nuclear Modernization
UT 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 […]