Vol. 24, No. 39 
More Big DOE Contractors, Another University Hopeful, Looking at NNSA’s Joint Y-12/Pantex Contract
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
COVID-19 Cases Climbed in Nuclear Security Enterprise This Week, NNSA Says
New infections eclipsed recoveries this week across the National Nuclear Security Administration’s labs, plants and sites, where there were 41 more active COVID-19 cases than in the prior week, an agency spokesperson said Friday. The agency discloses only confirmed cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that broke out in Wuhan, China, late […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA M&Os Billed $140M in COVID Paid Leave Through August
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s six major management and operations contractors have so far reported about $140 million in reimbursements for paid leave granted to people who could not work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, an agency spokesperson said this week. The tally includes reimbursements claimed from March 27 through Aug. 31 under Section […]
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Life Extension Programs
Livermore Wraps Customer Requirements Review for W87-1, Holds to 2030 First-Production Date
In the second-to-last week of fiscal year 2020, the National Nuclear Security Administration wrapped up its customer requirements review with the Department of Defense for the W87-1 intercontinental ballistic missile warhead, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said. W87-1, the replacement for W78, is arguably the civilian agency’s most ambitious nuclear modernization project of the 21st […]
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Warhead & Weapons Development
Pantex Dosimetry Processing Moved to Y-12 Indefinitely
Personnel at the Pantex Plant will have their dosimetry badges analyzed at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee indefinitely after the Texas assembly facility’s decades-old dosimetry processing equipment finally broke down. Pantex shifted dosimetry processing to Y-12 on a permanent basis at the end of September, and “there are no current plans to restore […]
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National Laboratories
NM Congressionals Want Virtual Meeting About Proposed Los Alamos Tritium Venting
The National Nuclear Security Administration should hold a COVID-19-safe virtual meeting to brief New Mexico residents about a planned venting of tritium from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, members of the state’s congressional delegation said Tuesday in a letter to the lab’s local fed. “[W]e strongly urge you to hold an open public information meeting […]