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Thirty pits a year by 2030 or sooner; first pit in 2024, Los Alamos weapons chief says
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – By December 2024, the Los Alamos National Laboratory will produce a proof-of-concept pit for a new intercontinental ballistic missile warhead, a senior lab official said here Thursday during an extremely rare media tour of the building where workers will cast the weapon’s plutonium core. That pit will not go into one of the hundreds of W87-1 warheads the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is set to build for the Sentinel missiles the Air Force plans to sink into silos starting in 2030 or so. Instead, following its midwifing inside the highly secure PF-4 Plutonium Facility, a windowless concrete building built in 1978 and,…		 Upcoming Events
Weapons Complex Morning Briefing
EnergySolutions sees Kewaunee as potential home to new nuclear generation
Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions is exploring the idea of using the shuttered Kewaunee Nuclear Generating Station in Wisconsin and some of its other decommissioning sites as potential locations for future new nuclear power sites. “We are in the early phases…
Weapons Complex Monitor
House Apps sends $8.3B DOE nuclear cleanup plan to full chamber
The GOP-controlled House Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved a fiscal 2024 energy and water development spending bill that would keep funds for the Department of Energy’s Cold War and Manhattan Project cleanup at roughly $8.3 billion. The final committee vote…
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House appropriators want to rearrange Nuclear Energy office’s funding in 2024 spending bill
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday was to mark up a bill that would increase funding for next-generation nuclear energy programs at the expense of accounts that fund nuclear waste, among other things. Generally, the bill would provide DOE’s Office…
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
House Appropriators approve more money for NNSA pits; take from research, nonproliferation
The House Appropriations Committee late Thursday approved a bill that would give the National Nuclear Security Administration a slightly larger 2024 budget than requested, owing mostly to added funding for a plutonium pit plant being built in South Carolina. After…
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