Vol. 22, No. 30

National Laboratories

‘Don’t Screw Up’: An Interview With Incoming Los Alamos Lab Director Thomas Mason

Come fall, Canadian-born, transplant-Tennessean Thomas Mason will be the latest in a line of Los Alamos National Laboratory directors stretching back to J. Robert Oppenheimer. But as of this week, when he took time after a Capitol Hill visit to speak with Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor, he stressed he was only president and chief […]
  • Budget & Policy

    House Approves Final 2019 NDAA; Senate Could Vote Next Week

    The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a compromise defense authorization bill that would allow the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to build a new low-yield nuclear warhead in fiscal 2019, and the Senate could follow suit as soon as next… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Budget & Policy

    NDAA Would Extend DOE Authority to Accept Fissile Materials From Around the Globe

    In what could amount to some housekeeping against the day the Department of Energy has a part to play in North Korean nuclear disarmament, Congress plans to extend the agency’s authority to accept weapon-grade fissile materials for sites around the world through… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    DOE Days Away From One-Year Extension to SRS Management Contract

    The Department of Energy is just days from sealing a one-year extension for the management and operations contract at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, a senior official said Monday. “As you know the M&O contract expires on 31 July and any day now… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Decision to Study Stripping Tritium Mission from Savannah River ‘Routine,’ DOE Official Says

    The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decision to study transferring some $300 million in annual defense nuclear materials operations to Tennessee from South Carolina is “routine,” according to the head of the Department of Energy’s cleanup… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Oral Arguments in MOX Lawsuit Appeal Scheduled for September

    The U.S. Department of Energy will argue in September why a federal court in South Carolina should not have prevented the agency from shuttering the Savannah River Site’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF). Designed to convert weapon-usable plutonium… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Next-Gen ICBM Business Buzzing Amid Northrop Earnings Boost

    Earnings at Northrop Grumman, one of two defense contractors on the next-generation U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile, rose nearly 25 percent in the second quarter, the company reported this week. Quarterly net income increased 24 percent to $689 million,… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    Nuke Missile Pitches in on Lockheed’s Q2 Earnings Growth

    Lockheed Martin, one of two Pentagon contractors developing a new cruise missile intended to carry the W80 nuclear warhead, this week reported better than 25-percent year-over-year earnings growth for the second quarter of 2018. Net income for the quarter ended… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    DNFSB to Hold Hearing on DOE Order Limiting Communications

    The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is scheduled to meet Aug. 28 to discuss a Department of Energy order that could limit the independent nuclear health-and-safety watchdog’s ability to police the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex. The board has suggested… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    DNFSB Sending Two Inspectors on New Assignments to Y-12

    The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is sending two of its technical staffers on new assignments to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Matthew Duncan will become Oak Ridge resident… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

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