Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Releases ‘Blueprint’ For Nuclear Weapons Production In Post-New-START World With A Rising China
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Tuesday published a vision for the U.S. nuclear-weapons production complex that could exist in the decades when the last nuclear-arms-control treaty lapses and […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuclear Weapons Agency, Environmentalists Get More Time to Negotiate Agreement After Government Loses Lawsuit
A judge Monday granted an extension for parties involved in a three year-old lawsuit against the Department of Energy to reach a compromise, a court document shows. The new due […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA ‘Diamond-Stamped’ First Plutonium Pit For W87-1 Warhead
The National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday finished its First Production Unit of a plutonium pit for the planned W87-1 warhead, an agency press release said. The National Nuclear Security […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAfter Merger With Jacobs’ Government Business, Amentum Eyes Areas of Nuclear Growth
Amentum, which last week absorbed Jacobs Solutions’ government service business, is eyeing business opportunities at U.S. nuclear-weapon sites and in nuclear energy, its CEO told the ExchangeMonitor Tuesday. Before Friday’s […]
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Nuclear ModernizationJudge Rules for Antis in Lawsuit Over Environmental Study of Plutonium Pit Production
The Department of Energy did not adequately study the environmental effects of producing nuclear-weapon cores in two states, a federal judge ruled Monday in a three year-old lawsuit. But the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAfter 10 Months of Planning, Big DoE Players Poised to Form ‘New’ Amentum
Amentum and branches of Jacobs Solutions [J] specializing in government and cyber-related work are poised to launch a new publicly-traded Amentum next month with deep footprints in nuclear, space exploration […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLLNL Director Says It Is Negotiating Five-Year Extension To NNSA Contract
OMAHA, Neb. — Lawrence Livermore National Securities is negotiating a five-year extension for the management contract of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the director said here last week. “We’re in […]
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Business/FinancialBWX Technologies Reports Higher Revenue Amid Worst Global Market Days In Two Years
Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT] in the second quarter, which the company on Monday attributed partly to organic growth in government operations as it prepared to begin work on […]
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Nuclear ModernizationStrategic Forces Ranking Republican Says Dates for Sentinel, Rest of Triad ‘Too Late’
Modernization of U.S. nuclear weapons and delivery systems is moving too slowly and the Pentagon has heard about it, Nebraska’s senior U.S. senator said here Tuesday at a think tank. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationU.S. Should Ready For Return to Nuclear Testing at Nevada, Conservative Policy Document Says
The United States should get ready to again test nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site if former President Trump wins reelection in November, according to conservative policy document […]
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