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Pitches for potential 20-year, $30B Pantex management deal due by Sept. 14
Whoever next manages the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, could hold the job for 20 years under a contract worth up to $30 billion now that a final pair of five-year options periods have been approved by senior officials.  A final request for proposals (RFP) for a new management contract at Pantex, the NNSA’s primary nuclear weapon manufacturing facility, was released on July 14. Responses to the RFP are due by 4 p.m. on Sept. 14.  A draft solicitation released in April included a five-year base period with three five-year option periods, the last two of which were listed as “pending approval.” Both of those option…		 Upcoming Events
Weapons Complex Morning Briefing
NNSA restarts drive to pick supplier of domestic uranium enrichment tech
The National Nuclear Security Administration wants to establish a pilot program for enriching weapons-grade uranium on American soil by 2030 in an effort to wean itself off foreign suppliers for the element used to make nuclear warheads. It’s a sort…
Weapons Complex Monitor
Senate approps sweetens defense environmental funding as part of fiscal 2024 bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s energy and water development bill would provide about $8.5 billion in fiscal 2024 funds for the Department of Energy’s cleanup of Cold War and Manhattan Project nuclear sites, according to the bill unanimously passed out of…
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RadWaste Monitor
Senate appropriators keep key nuclear waste funding account whole; tell DOE to move on interim storage
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy would get roughly the $1.6 billion the White House requested for it in fiscal year 2024, if a bill approved this week by the Senate Appropriations Committee becomes law. The full committee…
Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor
Senate appropriators boost funding for plutonium, uranium production facilities
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed a spending bill that would give the National Nuclear Security Administration nearly $2 billion more than the $22.1 billion the White House sought and almost exactly the $24 billion the House has proposed. …
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