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DoE to Hone Procurement Approach for Warhead-Core Factory by Next Year

DoE to Hone Procurement Approach for Warhead-Core Factory by Next Year
The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility under construction. The site could become a new hub for producing nuclear cores for ICBM warheads. Source: McDermott International

The Department of Energy will hone its acquisition approach for the plutonium-pit plant to be at the Savannah River Site around September 2020, a long-time agency contractor said on Wednesday. Fluor [FLR]-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the Savannah River site management contractor, is on the hook to turn in a CD-1 decision to the Department of Energy's semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by the end of the government’s 2020 fiscal year. That is according to Gregory Meyer, Fluor's senior vice president…

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