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NNSA Says Blocking Plutonium Shipments to Nevada Will Freeze Stockpile Safety Tests
Blocking all plutonium shipments to Nevada, as the state desires, would disrupt experiments there that help the government determine whether U.S. nuclear weapons still work as intended, the National Nuclear Security Administration argued in federal court this week. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du should deny injunction requested by the state in part because it “would require [the Department of Energy] to cease subcritical experiments performed by the Stockpile Stewardship Program (which helps to ensure the Nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile remains safe),” lawyers for the NNSA wrote in a Thursday response to Nevada’s Feb. 6 injunction motion. Subcritical experiments explosively compress weapon-usable plutonium without creating a nuclear blast. The tests help…		 Upcoming Events

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NNSA Says New X-Ray Cam Could Cost $1B Through 2025
It will cost about $1 billion through 2025 to build a new X-ray camera to observe subcritical plutonium experiments at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), according to the National Nuclear Security Administration. Those figures are based on a conceptual…
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Hanford Support Contractor Faces DOJ Fraud Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice on Feb. 8 filed a civil lawsuit against Hanford Site contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA), accusing it of fraud through false claims and kickbacks from 2010 to 2015. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court…
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Some SONGS Decommissioning Environmental Impacts ‘Unavoidable,’ Calif. Agency Says
Decommissioning of the two standing reactors at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) will produce “significant and unavoidable” environmental affects, even with mitigation measures, the California State Lands Commission said Monday in its final environmental impact report (EIR)…
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Pentagon Satisfied With NNSA Pit Plan, But Warns Civilian Agency is ‘Out of Margin’
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Defense Department remains satisfied with the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) strategy to produce plutonium pits at two facilities, but time is short to get started, a senior Pentagon official said here. “DOD is fully behind…
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