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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 17
Read Full Issue- CNS pays $18.4M to settle allegations of nearly six years of timecard fraud at Pantex
- Biden signs foreign aid bill with NNSA Ukraine funds
- NNSA formalizes dilute and dispose plan, says delay likely, but will get plutonium out of S.C.
- South Carolina environmental regulatory realignment set July 1
- Top end of pit-plant acquisition north of $35B, NNSA administrator says
- Replacement ICBM fuse closes in on milestone that precedes mass production
- TVA approved to irradiate more tritium for nuclear weapons
- Centrus says it has delivered 100kg of HALEU to Department of Energy
- Fleischmann lands seat on defense appropriations subcommittee
- Wrap: Poland ‘ready’ for U.S. nukes; House members want end to Iran nuclear cooperation; State Dept. AUKUS briefing; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 16
Read Full Issue- Sea-launched cruise missile is NNSA unfunded priority; warhead other than W80-4 possible; Savannah River taking half of W93’s pits
- Rogers asks for briefing about planned factory with alleged Chinese ties near KCNSC
- Mo. legislature plans tax breaks for KCNSC extension
- SMSI sold to Bernhard Capital Partners
- Boston Government hires strategy officer from Leidos
- Plaintiff claims false, defamatory DOE statements caused divorce
- Wrap up: Antis arrested at KCNSC; IAEA leadership back to Iran?; Obituaries
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 15
Read Full Issue- NNSA to award study contract for Oak Ridge uranium enrichment tech in June
- Tester Doubts Sentinel Will Meet Fielding Date of 2036
- As procurement drags on, cleanup office seeks revisions to proposals for contract that will include NNSA DUF4
- Livermore plans to use Aptim for teardown of Building 281
- NIST reactor that leaked radiation in 2021 won’t switch to low-enriched fuel before 2030
- Drones hit Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine as House mulls military aid
- Wrap up: Time card problems at Sandia; Columbia sub delays; Bush pushes RECA; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 14
Read Full Issue- NNSA splits Pantex, Y-12 federal office
- Environmentalists’ S.C. pit lawsuit to be briefed by late June; court leery of further extensions
- Jaramillo out as Jacobs CFO
- Mikolanis officially aboard as manager of the NNSA Savannah River office
- Deadline extended on Nevada Clean Energy RFQ until tax day
- CNS raising funds for wildfire relief
- DNFSB touts 2023 safety work in report to Congress
- Wrap up: Bogey bluetooth at Sandia; Earth Day competition for nuke sites; Contract extension for DU
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 13
Read Full Issue- No possibility of settling enviros’ suit against S.C. pit plant
- NNSA No. 2 Rose to leave agency
- Los Alamos lab prepares responses to electric upgrade comments
- Easy does it: Speed cameras planned at Los Alamos
- Second minibus bill signed; has Price-Anderson extension; 2024 federal budgets set
- Another spending package passes without radiation act extension
- White House seeks $47.2M for DNFSB in fiscal 2025
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 12
Read Full Issue- UPF rebaseline underway done ‘soon’ secretary of energy tells appropriators
- NNSA seeks study contractor for effort to mature Oak Ridge defense refining tech
- Defense Secretary ‘Optimistic’ Congress will act on Ukraine supplemental approps bill
- Minibus appropriations bill with Defense Department funds has Price-Anderson extension
- Former Veolia manager takes new job with Alpha
- Wrap up: U.N. Security Council on nukes; Aiken city Pu settlement spending; Knoxville PD woes; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 11
Read Full Issue- NNSA seeks $1B boost for fiscal year 2025; Savannah River pit estimate soars
- Dilute and dispose looks to boost shipments to WIPP this year
- Air Force budgets $3.7 billion for Sentinel in fiscal 2025; Requirements changes possible in fiscal 2026
- House members working on partisan Rosatom sanctions bills
- Savannah River adds to electric vehicle fleet
- Round up: New New START resolution; Jenkins’ tough audience; Changes at local pro-nuke board
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 10
Read Full Issue- NNSA, nuclear weapons fully funded through compromise bill
- NNSA seeking candidates to build clean-energy farm in Nevada
- NNSA to help fund Shine Technologies new medical isotope production facility
- Senate passes RECA extension; Biden will sign
- Down to two members, DNFSB still seeking quorum
- Wrap up: Hruby remarks on insider threats; Iran uranium at IAEA; Centrus bell-ringing
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 9
Read Full Issue- Plutonium pit-aging studies will cost NNSA at least $1B, not counting equipment, GAO says
- STRATCOM head embraces nuclear sea-launched cruise missile as modernization must
- Congress passes stopgap funding measure, foresees DOE budget next week
- BWXT rounds out launch tube manufacturing for Navy ballistic missile subs
- After wildfires prompt temporary shutdown, business back to normal at Pantex Plant
- Hawley urges Congress to extend benefits to victims of nuclear contamination
- Predictable business foundations bring BWXT earnings rise in 2023, fourth quarter
- LANL employee again running for New Mexico statehouse
- Wrap up: Putin threatens nuclear war; NNSA welcomes international mission to Sandia; TVA tritium; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 08
Read Full Issue- Fluor CEO anticipates Pantex award decision in second half of year
- PE firm sells DOE businesses after three-years of M&A; Cadre Holdings acquires
- No funds for U.S. uranium industry, NNSA Ukraine help in House foreign-aid counter proposal
- NNSA ponders potential Vegas office move
- Northrop Grumman reports more Sentinel missile tests
- Round up: alleged weapons grade plutonium trafficking; Livermore environmental paperwork; NRC clears way for more tritium at TVA; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 17 No. 7
Read Full Issue- Bill to tax pits slips off legislature’s agenda as session winds down
- Nuclear Fuel Services gets early extension for defense-uranium downblending
- Appropriations bill with aid for NNSA Ukraine response clears Senate; House slow-walking
- ‘Downwind’ film by Hollywood actors considers legacy of Nevada nuclear testing
- Wrap up: Honeywell 75 years at KSNSC; Hruby at Nevada clean energy day; U.S.-Bulgaria civil nuclear co-op; Y-12 gate crasher; more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 6
Read Full Issue- Without DOE cylinders to hold it, Centrus will not deliver required HALEU this year
- Rockfall incidents inside Nevada’s U1a mine draw enforcement attention
- Cost ceiling for minor NNSA projects boosted to $34 million
- National security bill with aid for NNSA’s Ukraine efforts clears first hurdle in Senate
- Los Alamos glovebox fire sprinklers could cause criticality, safety watchdog says
- Jacobs reports strong first earnings after merger announcement
- STRATCOM may accelerate, increase LRSO buy, commander says
- Wrap up: Inert nuclear rocket shows up in Washington State; unauthorized Bluetooth device at Sandia; truck hits pedestrian at LANL and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 5
Read Full Issue- NNSA to extend most expiring contracts, starting with Y-12; Pantex transition a month late
- Thirty pits a year in 2028 at Los Alamos meets STRATCOM needs, commander says
- Late delivery of new underground testing lab might not affect design of Navy warhead
- SRS advisory board members getting more comfortable with NNSA takeover
- Post COVID, recruiting okay, retention still challenging at nuke labs, directors say
- NRC says BWXT ‘challenged’ license standards in events leading to flash-fire death of worker
- Livermore investigated for nuclear contamination on and off-site
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 4
Read Full Issue- Report: NNSA needs better management, data collection on projects less than $30 million
- NNSA publishes final environmental study on disposal of surplus plutonium
- Kansas City campus marks 75 years since taking over nuke component manufacturing mission
- Nuclear Deterrence Summit kicks off next week, featuring NNSA, STRATCOM leadership and more
- Senators call out Sentinel delays, overruns in WSJ op-ed
- IAEA head says potential for major accident at Ukrainian nuclear plant ‘very real’
- Air Force to trim fat from ballooning Sentinel missile program
- Wrap up: Russian nuke war simulator; more money for Savannah River from city and state
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 03
Read Full Issue- NNSA Releases Site Performance Evaluation Reports for fiscal 2023
- DOE budget would be extended through March 1 under bill approved this week
- HII appoints Lempke to shepherd AUKUS efforts down under
- Los Alamos sees spate of radiological contamination episodes around plutonium facility
- Savannah River prime starts shopping for sub to build emergency ops center
- Northrop Grumman tests Sentinel stage-two solid rocket motor
- Washington State University students help develop realistic training gloveboxes
- IAEA team gains access to sixth and final reactor at embattled Ukraine nuclear plant
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 02
Read Full Issue- Mass production of B61-12, W88 Alt 370 at halfway point
- Parsons gets $21-million deal for Los Alamos construction management
- Qatar owns all research done at Texas A&M’s Qatari campus
- Houston takes over top post at Naval Nuclear Propulsion
- NNSA extends public comment on new Los Alamos power line, will hold public meeting
- DNFSB chair, members ‘undermined’ first exec director for safety watchdog
- Congressional leaders agree on 2024 spending limit; still much work
- BWXT names former Boeing exec to board of directors
- Wrap up: ‘Oppenheimer’ honors; NNSA counter-drone tech; Sandia’s economic impact and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 28 No. 01
Read Full Issue- No pre-holiday test flight for Sentinel
- NNSA reaches halfway mark for production of B61-12 and W88 warheads
- Livermore Lab develops new tool to simulate using nukes to deflect asteroids away from Earth
- NNSA’s Rose visits Hawaii to discuss regional nuclear security with senior military officials
- Y-12 recognized for continued worker health and safety
- Wrap up: NDAA signed; Air Force working fixes for Kirtland thorium mishandling; DNFSB job search wraps
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 49
Read Full Issue- Nuclear security in 2023: pits press on; UPF stumbles; industry consolidation looms
- NDAA would bar plutonium-cleanup expansion until LANL can make 30 pits per year
- Houston confirmed by Senate to lead Naval Reactors, cleared for promotion to Admiral
- NNSA not ruling out snappy commercial for recruitment, official says
- Los Alamos votes to stay local and promote No. 2 to county manager
- Wrap up: SRPPF suit could stretch to summer; Holtec to build nuke plant parts in Ukraine; NNSA cooperation with Chile
- Publication Notice
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 48
Read Full Issue- Glovebox Fire shuts portion of LANL plutonium lab for nearly two weeks
- Federal watchdog wants report on worker safety at Savannah River’s yet-to-open pit plant
- Supreme Court agrees to vacate ruling against Biden’s contractor vax mandate
- NNSA signs agreement with Japan, Korea for environmental science and nuclear tech exchange
- Environmental field boss at Los Alamos to become NNSA’s Savannah River Site manager
- Congress passes fiscal ‘24 NDAA; nuclear weapons get more, nuclear cleanup stays flat
- Wrap up: Wrap up: Clean energy for test site?; Boston Government personnel; Big snow at LANL
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 47
Read Full Issue- Ala. senator’s release of military promotions does not include naval nuke reactor nominee
- Iranian-born academic sues; was fired after allegedly letting Iranian student access NNSA software
- Final ’24 NDAA does not limit administrator’s pay and other tibits from the 3000-plus page bill
- Businesses merging with Amentum credited with over one-third of Jacobs revenue
- Compensation for nuclear radiation victims fails to make it into defense policy bill
- DNFSB chair, board should leave small stuff to senior staff, Inspector General says
- IAEA director says power supply to Ukraine’s beseiged nuclear power plant ‘unsustainable’
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 46
Read Full Issue- Air Force general says Sentinel can be tipped with multiple warheads
- Y-12 uranium facility hurt by contractor performance, other problems latest stockpile plan says
- State Dept. nonproliferation official boosts AUKUS in think tank talk
- Hawley vows ‘no’ vote on NDAA without funds for nuclear contamination victims
- Main power line to Europe’s largest nuclear plant cut amid ongoing combat in Ukraine
- Policy maker-presidential adviser Henry Kissinger dies at age 100
- Wrap up: NNSA opens doors to Nevada Test Site; EPA looks into stormwater at Los Alamos; Philippines reach nuke agreement with U.S. and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 45
Read Full Issue- Amentum-Jacobs merger narrows field of Pantex management hopefuls
- After an eight-year run, Centrus CEO Poneman out on Jan. 1
- Most DNFSB staff respect the top bosses; work remotely much of the time
- Comment period to open for Los Alamos power supply upgrades on federal forest land
- Power temporarily cut to one of Ukraine nuclear plant’s six reactors
- France test-fires new bM51.3 sub-launched missile over Atlantic
- Wrap up: Senators concerned with NNSA counterintelligence; hackers hit Idaho Lab; bears at Los Alamos and more
- Publication Notice
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 44
Read Full Issue- Oral interviews for $30B Pantex landlord contract underway
- Global trend is toward embrace of test ban treaty, says treaty leader
- Dems want cost estimates Congress didn’t ask for in nuke modernization report
- Under approved stopgap funding measure, Congress extends NNSA funding through Jan. 19
- Senate sends its NDAA to conference with House
- GAO: Kansas City Site struggling to meet staffing, supply chain needs
- DOE watchdog finds no classified information leaked during 2022 NNSA meeting
- Air Force secretary says Sentinel nuclear missile program ‘struggling’
- Wrap Up: BWX gets a new nuke operations manager; Nevada Site needs a big water tank; Frontline Cold War general dies, and more
- Publication Notice
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 42
Read Full Issue- U.S. will develop higher-yield B61 gravity bomb
- Fluor announces bid for $30B Pantex Plant landlord contract
- Earnings up at BWXT with bright future for nuclear propulsion on the horizon
- NNSA’s preferred plan for Livermore involves building 3 million square feet through 2035
- Convicted nuclear-sub-espionage accomplice denied appeal of 22-year sentence
- With NNSA help, Jordan eliminates cesium-137 use for blood research
- Short-handed DNFSB hires Export-Import manager to lead operations
- Air Force awards nearly $1B contract for Sentinel ICBM reentry vehicle
- Wrap Up: Russia pulls out of test ban treaty; $350 billion for nuclear forces modernization; Savannah River tritium facility breaks ground, and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 41
Read Full Issue- Plutonium mission stressing NNSA glovebox supply chain
- Glovebox design nearly done for SRS pit plant; facility should open in 2032, official says
- Senate panel endorses Lee for DNFSB after board loses quorum
- U.S. nuclear weapons programs get boost in House-approved spending bill
- BWXT seals $300M deal for more naval nuclear reactor fuel through 2025
- Conventional underground explosion in Nevada helps U.S. worldwide nuke detection
- Navy Officials call for AUKUS-enabling legislation to keep complicated sub deal on schedule
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 40
Read Full Issue- NNSA kicks can on facility crucial to disposing of old warhead cores
- Bi-partisan support for strategic posture report in Senate Armed Services Committee hearing
- No more bilateral treaties; stealth negotiation will key future arms control, ex-State advisor says
- Scorpius imager possible this decade, Sandia says
- And then there were 2 board members at DNFSB
- Senators want to see study about nuclear submarine industry now
- Wrap up: Indictment alleges nuclear parts kickbacks, NA-1 on energy, climate security; Groundbreaking for Y-12 Lithium; Award for Budil
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 39
Read Full Issue- Report: Crossed wires inside nuke make it past Pantex quality control inspection
- Centrus begins HALEU enrichment at Portsmouth Site
- Environmentalists, locals, say NNSA left crucial documents out of decision record for pits
- DOE probe finds no fault with nuclear courier’s time off practices
- Y-12 clears way for new, safer uranium purification process for nuclear weapons work
- Fluor naval propulsion contract extended through 2028
- Ex-DNFSB tech director lands DOE health safety post, board seeks to fill slots
- New IAEA team arrives at Ukrainian nuclear plant with Japanese-donated armored vehicles
- Wrap up: House panel backs nuke modernization; GOP Senators ask for Iran nuke update; Antis denounce LANL pit production and more
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 38
Read Full Issue- Savannah River plutonium facility half designed, aiming for construction completion in 2032
- Honeywell playing potential Pantex bid close to the chest
- Y-12, Pantex, other NNSA sites challenged with inexperienced workforce as modernization challenges loom
- United Kingdom awards contracts for Australian nuclear-powered attack submarine
- Navy successfully fires off 191st unarmed Trident II SLBM
- DNFSB continues hunt for operations director
- Wrap up: Russia considers abandoning nuke test treaty; IAEA counterterrorism center opens; NNSA makes $2.5M in grants and more
- NNSA won’t have tech to verify Russian nuke forces in time for New START successor treaty
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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor Vol. 27 No. 37
Read Full Issue- NNSA delivering rehabbed B61 bombs to Air Force for F-35 nuke mission
- Convicted nuclear sub espionage accomplice argues 22-year sentence unconstitutional
- Pendulum swinging back to weapons mission at Savannah River, where NNSA’s takeover is coming into focus
- DOE, contractors, would keep working after shutdown, but travel would be restricted
- NNSA employee working on W88 bypassed computer restrictions by using sub’s email, office
- NNSA investigating loss of criticality controls at Y-12 uranium processing facility
- BWXT pairs with Crowley to develop deployable ship-based military microreactors
- Inspection turns up safety system concerns at Sandia’s Annular Core Reactor in New Mexico
- Wrap up: Commercial fusion by 2033?; New countries sign nuke treaties; GOP attempts to slash Granholm salary and more
