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Nuclear Modernization

Planned South Carolina Nuke Core Plant Seeking ‘Stable Funding Source’

Monday, October 19th, 2020

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Planned South Carolina Nuke Core Plant Seeking ‘Stable Funding Source’

With late-stage design activities underfunded for most of the first quarter of fiscal year 2021, the Department of Energy is passing around the hat for a planned pit-production plant to be built from the remains of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina an agency official said Friday. “We’re working with the program office to get a stable funding source,” Scott Cannon, the DoE National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) director of project management…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

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Congress

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