Nuclear Security & Deterrence Vol 18 No 18

Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

UPF Red Team: Federal Mgmt. Changes Key to Moving out of 9212 by 2025

Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Moving uranium processing operations out of the Y-12 National Security Complex’s 9212 complex by 2025 will be “extraordinarily difficult” without a drastically revised management structure that moves responsibility of the Uranium Processing Facility into the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Programs, a Red Team that examined the project […]
  • Budget & Policy

    House Republicans Seek to Speed up Some NNSA Modernization Efforts

    HASC-Strategic Forces Markup Would Accelerate Cruise Missile Warhead, Creation of Pu Capabilities  Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Republicans on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee are objecting to Administration plans to delay the refurbishment of the cruise missile warhead, and they are moving to authorize additional funding to accelerate the program in Fiscal Year […]

  • Budget & Policy

    DOE Holds off on MOX Suspension, but Pressure from Congress Continues

    Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 While the Department of Energy this week backed off from plans to immediately suspend work on the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and released a long-awaited alternatives study, the plant’s supporters in Congress continued to pressure DOE to commit to MOX completion. Though the Department originally said it would begin […]

  • Uranium Enrichment & Fuel Cycle

    As Oak Ridge Takes over American Centrifuge, Lawmakers Question Funding

    Kenneth Fletcher NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 As a contract that cedes management of the American Centrifuge Project from USEC to Oak Ridge National Laboratory began this week, Senate appropriators are questioning how the program will be funded. This week DOE and USEC’s bankruptcy court approved a $118 million subcontract between ORNL contractor UT-Battelle and USEC to […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    U.S. Announces Active Deployed Stockpile of 4,804 Warheads

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 The United States had 4,804 nuclear weapons in its active deployed stockpile as of September of last year, having trimmed 309 weapons from the last time it declassified the size of its nuclear arsenal in 2010. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller made the […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Sen. Feinstein Vows to Fight Cuts to NNSA Nonproliferation Budget

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair of the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee, promised to fight proposed funding cuts to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nonproliferation program during a subcommittee hearing this week, calling the reductions to the program “egregious.” The Administration requested $8.31 billion for the NNSA’s weapons […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    North Dakota Senator Urges Acceleration of ALCM Replacement

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Calling the refurbishment of the air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) a “priority” for the nation, Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) was critical of the Obama Administration’s decision this year to delay the replacement of the weapon in a speech this week at the Reserve Officers Association. “The Air Force will continue to […]

  • International

    House Republicans Take Aim at Arms Control Ambitions in Light of Ukraine

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 The United States should scale back its ambitions to restart arms control negotiations with Russia, House Republicans told a pair of State Department officials this week at a joint hearing of House Foreign Affairs Committee panels, citing tensions over Ukraine and Moscow’s alleged violation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    GAO Calls into Question NNSA FY 2022 Dismantlement Goal

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 A new report from the Government Accountability Office this week said it’s unlikely that the National Nuclear Security Administration will meet its goals to dismantle all nuclear weapons retired prior to Fiscal Year 2009 by FY 2022, but it suggests slowing down the dismantlement work might help address a problematic […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    Senate Bill Would Limit New Start Reductions, Arms Control Talks

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Legislation introduced this week by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and 20 other Senate Republicans designed to respond to Russia’s actions in Ukraine would terminate U.S. cooperation with parts of the New START Treaty and prohibit arms control negotiations with Moscow. In a statement, Corker said the “Russian Aggression Prevention Act […]

  • National Laboratories

    J-Lab Contractor SURA Considering Bid for Brookhaven Lab Contract

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 It appears that there could be competition for the Brookhaven National Laboratory contract after all. Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) has kept a low profile during the BNL procurement, but industry officials say the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility contractor is strongly considering a bid for the contract. Brookhaven Science […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Klotz to Begin Tour of Weapons Complex Next Week

    NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 New National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz will take his first tour of the weapons complex as the agency’s administrator next week, making stops at the Nevada National Security Site, the agency’s Albuquerque Complex, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha said this week. At Sandia, […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Op-Ed: The Wheel of Progress, and Security in the Wake of Y-12

    Paul Donahue CEO, G4S Government Solutions Since taking over as CEO of WSI (G4S Government Solutions, Inc.) months before the Y-12 intrusion in July of 2012, it’s no surprise I’ve found it necessary to revisit, refocus and refine core security and oversight practices that did not adequately facilitate at Y-12 independence of thought and effective […]

  • National Laboratories

    Livermore Official Named UC VP for Lab Management

    Todd Jacobson NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory official Kim Budil is taking over as the University of California’s Vice President for Laboratory Management, University of California President Janet Napolitano said this week. Budil takes over for Glenn Mara, who announced his retirement last year and stepped down April 30. In her new role, […]

  • National Laboratories

    At Oak Ridge

    NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 Y-12 UNION APPROVES ONE-YEAR EXTENSION Y-12’s union workers approved a one-year extension of the existing collective bargaining agreement on May 1, setting the stage for the transition of contractors at the Oak Ridge plant. “We’re glad to have this behind us,” Jones said. The extension includes a 2.5 percent wage increase and […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Wrap Up: In the DNFSB, In the Industry

    NS&D Monitor 5/2/2014 IN THE DNFSB House lawmakers are looking to lower the maximum number of employees the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board can have by 20 percent. A provision in the House version of the FY 2015 defense authorization bill, which was reported out of subcommittee this week, would limit the number of full-time […]

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