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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
NNSA Can't Make 80-Pit Production Deadline, Acting Administrator Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration cannot meet a legal requirement to make at least 80 new plutonium cores for intercontinental ballistic missile warheads in 2030, the agency’s acting boss told lawmakers Thursday. With the planned Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SPPPF) up to five years behind scheduled, “based on our latest information we assess that meeting the 2030 [deadline] … is not going to be achievable,” Charles Verdon, the acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said in the final minutes of a hearing of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee. That cat had been part way out of the bag since late May, when Jill Hruby,… |
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Weapons Complex Morning Briefing |
Current Timeline Has SPRU’s TRU Waste Headed to Idaho in Fiscal 2024
The transuranic waste sitting at the Separations Process Research Unit in Schenectady County. N.Y. could head to the Idaho National Laboratory starting in fiscal 2024 to be prepped for final shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico,… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
Hanford Fiscal 2022 Budget Would Be Trimmed Under Biden Request
The Hanford Site in Washington State would receive a haircut under President Joe Biden’s budget request for the Department of Energy in fiscal 2022, but still account for nearly a third of the entire $7.6-billion budget sought for the Department… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Federal Interim Storage Request About Flat at $20M for Fiscal 2022
The Joe Biden administration’s fiscal year 2022 budget request would shift $20 million in existing funding for the siting of a non-Yucca Mountain federal interim storage site into a different silo of DOE’s Nuclear Energy office, according to a budget… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Top Pentagon Brass Hadn't Seen Acting NavSec Memo Calling for Cancellation of SLCM-N
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense did not have advanced warnings about the acting secretary of the Navy’s memo last week that urged the service to cancel a planned nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile. … |
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