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FEATURED UNLOCKED ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
White House Wants $65M For DOE Work on Low-Yield Warhead in 2019
The White House wants $65 million in fiscal 2019 for the Department of Energy to start work on the low-yield ballistic-missile warhead called for in the latest Nuclear Posture Review: a weapon Congress must authorize before the agency can start building it. The Donald Trump administration made the funding request official on April 13 in proposed amendments to the spending request it released in March for the budget year starting Oct. 1. “At the time the FY 2019 Budget was transmitted to the Congress, the details of the NPR [Nuclear Posture Review] were still being defined, and were not ready for inclusion in the FY 2019 Budget,” Mick Mulvaney, director… |
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Final Bids in On LANL Contract, UC Says
The University of California submitted its best and final offer to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next decade, a spokesperson for the institution said Friday. “It’s my understanding that all teams have submitted their final bids at… |
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Weapons Complex Monitor |
DOE Paused Idaho Waste Shipments After Drum Breach
The Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory suspended transuranic waste shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico immediately after an April 11 incident in which at least one 55-gallon drum of radioactive waste overheated and ejected its… |
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RadWaste Monitor |
Q&A: Vote Coming on Yucca Bill, NEI Official Says
Despite its lack of movement for nearly a year, there remains hope for legislation intended to give a strong push for building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, a senior official with the nuclear industry’s policy organization… |
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor |
Texas A&M Team Files ‘Best and Final' Offer on LANL Contract
The bid team that includes Texas A&M University has submitted its final offer on a contract to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next 10 years, a university spokesperson said Thursday. “Best and final have been submitted and… |
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