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Nuclear Modernization

Nuke Labs Complete Second Temperature Test of W80-4 Cruise-Missile Warhead

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, June 12th, 2023

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Nuke Labs Complete Second Temperature Test of W80-4 Cruise-Missile Warhead

W8-4 warhead. Image: National Nuclear Security Administration

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories have successfully performed a second joint abnormal thermal environment test for the W80-4 Life Extension Program, the labs recently announced. Carried out at Sandia’s Cross Wind Test Facility in New Mexico at an undisclosed date, this abnormal thermal environment test, or ATE-2, was a fast-heat, fully engulfing system-level fuel fire test, the first for Livermore in more than three decades, according to a statement published on Livermore’s website. The test is another…

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