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Nuclear Modernization

NNSA, TVA Forge New Interagency Agreement on Uranium for Tritium Production

Friday, August 24th, 2018

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NNSA, TVA Forge New Interagency Agreement on Uranium for Tritium Production

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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Thursday announced a new interagency agreement to continue providing the federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority with low-enriched uranium that makes it possible to produce tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons.Under the agreement, the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency will downblend highly enriched uranium into low-enriched uranium that will be burned — along with tritium-producing burnable absorber rods — in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Watts Bar Nuclear Plant reactor Unit 1 in Rhea…

Congress

House Authorizers Retain Battleship Funding, But Want Nuclear-Power Report

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Congress

HASC Rejects $150 Billion Topline Cut, Iran Cost Transparency Proposals At NDAA Markup

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HASC Wants Pentagon List Of Critical F-35 Technical Data Rights And Estimate Of Cost To Buy Them For Repairs

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Space

NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites in the last two years to supplement the costly high-end systems […]