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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
New SLBM warhead begins budget ramp up in 2023
The W93 submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, the first in decades that is not a refurbishment of a weapon already sailing the seas, will be in line for a big budget increase if Congress goes along with the Joe Biden administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget request. W93, led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, would see its budget more than triple to over $240 million in fiscal 2023 from more than $70 million in fiscal year 2022, according a small budget-summary document known as a statistical table. The Department of Energy had yet to release its full budget request as of Wednesday evening. Proportionally and by raw dollars, that is the single… |
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Weapons Complex Morning Briefing |
Idaho shipments on hold after WIPP facility evacuated due to radioactive liquid
The Department of Energy has greenlighted its prime contractor at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to resume waste handling in the coming week, although shipments from Idaho National Laboratory are temporarily on hold after a weekend emergency. The DOE Office… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Centerra lands security biz at DOE HQ
Centerra, which already provides security at multiple Department of Energy sites, recently won a five-year, $195-million award for protective services at the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., and nearby offices in Germantown, Md. Centerra’s parent company, Herndon, Va.,-based Constellis, announced… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
DOE to lay out requirements for nuke credits bidding next week
Fewer than five days remain before the Department of Energy is expected to publish instructions for financially-troubled nuclear power plant operators looking to bid on a multi-billion-dollar federal assistance package. DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy “anticipates opening a combined certification… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Nuclear Fuel Services to start weapons-uranium work under sole-source NNSA contract
BWX Technologies Nuclear Fuel Services, Erwin, Tenn., will begin producing purified uranium metal for nuclear weapons under a sole-source award announced Wednesday by the National Nuclear Security Administration. “The purification and conversion capabilities provided by the Contractor shall allow for… |
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