Vol. 25, No. 22

Plutonium Pit Production

USAF Gen. Not Worried About W87-1 Delay After Projected Delay for SRS Pit Plant

The head of Air Force Global Strike Command is not concerned that the next-generation warhead for the next-generation nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile will be delayed because of a projected delay with one of the two plutonium pit-production plants that will supply the new warhead’s core. In a webcast address to the public and press Thursday […]
  • Budget & Policy

    House Armed Services Will be First to Vet NNSA Budget Request for ‘22

    Among the highlights of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s detailed fiscal year 2022 budget request: it will cost more than double what the agency once estimated to convert a plutonium recycling plant in South Carolina into a factory for nuclear-weapon triggers; planned air- and sea-launched cruise missiles will share a nuclear tip; next year’s costs […]

  • Contracts & Procurement

    NNSA to Extend CNS at Y-12, Pantex

    Consolidated Nuclear Security will remain on the job at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big production sites at least two months longer than planned and possibly as many as six, the agency announced Tuesday. The Bechtel National-led prime for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Democrat Stansbury Easily Wins Special Election to Fill N.M. Congressional Seat

    Thanks to an easy victory this week’s special election, the Democratic Party maintains control of Mexico’s 1st Congressional District seat vacated in March when Deb Haaland resigned to become President Joe Biden’s secretary of interior. Democrat Melanie Ann Stansbury, a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, won 60% of Tuesday’s vote to defeat […]

  • Defense Low-Level Waste

    Y-12 Waste Shipments to Nevada Resumed in May

    The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., shipped low-level waste to the Nevada National Security Site in May for the first time in nearly two years after the desert site reinstated a certification that was yanked in 2019 following disclosure that Y-12 had sent 32 containers worth of improperly labelled waste to the […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Nuclear Cleanup Spending Would Rise at NNSA Sites Under White House Request

    The Department of Energy spending request put forward Friday by the Joe Biden administration for fiscal 2022 would increase funding for environmental cleanup of past weapons work at several National Nuclear Security Administration sites. The DOE Office of Environmental Management budget for physical cleanup of this legacy contamination would rise by about a third, to […]

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