Vol. 25, No. 21 
SRS Pit Plant Might be Five Years Later Than Hoped, NNSA Administrator-Designate Tells Senators
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Budget & Policy
$20B Biden NNSA Budget Whacks Weapon Activities, Compared With Trump Forecast
As part of a roughly $20 billion 2022 budget request for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Joe Biden administration on Friday sought about 12% less for civilian nuclear weapons programs than the Donald Trump administration forecast would be necessary… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Vaccination Saturation, Plunging Case Counts but More Infections Than at the Start of Last Summer for NNSA
Confirmed active cases of COVID-19 were well below the one-month acreage across the National Nuclear Security Administration’s federal and contractor workforce this week, falling to 87, or about 40% lower than a month ago, the agency said Friday. Although that’s… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Plutonium Pit Production
LANL Criticality Safety Personnel at Critical Mass for Planned Pit Production, Review Says
Los Alamos National Laboratory has hired enough criticality safety personnel to support planned manufacturing of nuclear-weapon cores at the New Mexico laboratory, but staff churn among these crucial workers is more common than the lab believes, a new DOE review… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]
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Warhead & Weapons Development
SRS Finished Tritium Upgrades for B61-12 in February
The Savannah River Site in February completed upgrades to tritium processing facilities at the site’s H-Area that will allow personnel to fill tritium reservoirs for the planned B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb life-extension program, the site said Tuesday. The upgrades… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as […]
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Budget & Policy
CBO Publishes Latest Nuke Modernization Report Days Ahead of Budget Rollout
Once again, the Congressional Budget Office’s biennial cost estimate for the 10 years of nuclear modernization spending arrived just in time for the yearly federal budget debate on Capitol Hill. The latest congressionally mandated report from the non-partisan… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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National Laboratories
NTESS Hit With $152K Fine for Misfiling Classified Information
National Engineering and Technology Solutions of Sandia, the Honeywell-owned prime for the Sandia National Laboratories, agreed to a $152,000 settlement with the Department of Energy over the unauthorized disclosure of classified information at the lab some time… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Non-Proliferation
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Advances Arms Control Nominee on Tight Vote
Without much Republican support, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week favorably reported the Joe Biden administration’s nominee for the State Department’s top arms control post to the Senate floor. The Tuesday vote in the evenly divided committee… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]
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National Laboratories
Los Alamos Regional Coalition Votes to Close Down
A regional group to promote communities around the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has decided to close up shop. “We are looking toward officially dissolving by June 30,” Darien Fernandez, the Taos Town Council member and… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Nevada Spheres From Historic Livermore Experiments at Last Leaving Nevada
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management plans to relocate some transuranic waste from the Nevada National Security Site to the Idaho National Laboratory where it will be prepared for eventual shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in […]