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NNSA Wants New Analysis of LANL Facility Earthquake Readiness

By Photo of Brian Bradley

Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
8/28/2015
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has called on its Los Alamos Field Office to create a working group that will solicit proposals for a “state-of-the-art seismic performance analysis” of…

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LANL Resumes Some Machining Activity at Plutonium Facility

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DOE Submits Justification to Revise DOE Emergency Management Order

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Kazakhstan and IAEA Sign LEU Fuel Bank Agreement

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Navy Awards Teradyne $25M for Trident 2 Support

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At Pantex

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At Oak Ridge

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