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The ExchangeMonitor is heading into its annual August recess, and Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor will not be published during the second and third full weeks of the month. We’ll still be working, so keep the news tips coming, and look for the next weekly newsletter in your inbox on Friday, Aug. 28.

In This Issue

DOE Kicks Off Procurement for Next Savannah River Site Management Contract

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Draft Solicitation for New Pantex-Y-12 Contract Coming This Month, NNSA Says

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Second NNSA Employee Dies of COVID-19

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‘Some People’ at DOE Want to Shield NNSA Budget Negotiations From Pentagon, Inhofe Says

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South Carolina, NNSA Could be Close to Settling $200M Plutonium Lawsuit

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Menezes Takes Over as Energy Dept. Deputy

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Reichert Replacing Smith as CNS Chief

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Navy Biz Insulates BWXT in Pandemic as Company Eyes New NNSA Work

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Centrus Posts Second Consecutive Profitable Quarter, With HALEU Assist

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Jacobs Bumps Revenue Up to $3.3B in Fiscal Third Quarter

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Acquisitions, Payment Boost Leidos In Second Quarter

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Huntington Ingalls Hits Rough Seas In Second Quarter

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NRC Plans August Decision on International Isotopes Breaches in Cesium Release

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NNSA Plans Big Environmental Review for 15 More Years of Livermore Operations

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Minuteman III Test Launch Featured Multiple RVs, Airborne Control Center

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NNSA Budget Needs Threatening Other Defense Programs, GAO Repeats

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Los Alamos Community Group Again Needs New Executive Director

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NNSA completes FY26 W80-4 components ahead of schedule

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W93/Mk7 enters engineering and manufacturing development phase

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DOE contractors recover equipment from Y-12 legacy facility ahead of demolition

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Op-ed urges NNSA-private sector fusion partnership

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Wrap up: NNSA highlights laser role; Uranium recovery to resume at SRS; Pentagon does nuclear energy expo

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Savannah River Site shifts from cleanup toward broader nuclear missions

ARLINGTON, Va. – Savannah River Site is moving beyond its traditional environmental cleanup mission as the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration prepare to expand nuclear-fuel, plutonium and other national-security activities at the South Carolina site. The NNSA took over landlord responsibilities from DOE’s Environmental Management in October 2024. Edwin Deshong, manager of […]
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Groups seek NEPA review of plan to issue surplus plutonium to private companies

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Y-12 completes B61-13 canned subassembly production early

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BWXT wins NNSA contract for Y-12 lithium processing facility design

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EXCLUSIVE: Williams seeks to shake up NNSA’s ‘business as usual’

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