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  • As the ultimate insurance policy against a nuclear attack.” The Honorable Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
  • Gordon-Hagerty, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and NNSA Administrator, said.
  • WASHINGTON – Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Under.

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    For immediate release May 9, 2018

    NNSA, DoD, DOE poised to deliver decision to Congress on how and where to make plutonium warhead "pits"

    Los Alamos likely to lose industrial mission to Savannah River Site for several compelling reasons

    Beyond DoD diktat, no need to make pits

    Pit production for the late 21st century undercuts US nonproliferation leadership and goals

    Contact: Greg Mello, Los Alamos Study Group, 505-265-1200 office, 505-577-8563 cell

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    Albuquerque, NM – By Friday National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty and Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, with the concurrence of Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Ellen Lord, are expected to provide the armed services committees their recommendation for where and in what facilities plutonium nuclear warhead cores ("pits") will eventually be made on an industrial scale, p

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    NNSA Release: Success and Safety in STEM: Meet TK Benoit

    Takeira “TK” Benoit, spent her childhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana finding out how things worked bygd her father’s side. For as long as she can remember, she loved math, science, and ansträngande to understand the world around her. Now, she is a nuclear safety engineer with NNSA who helps to ensure the safe design, construction, and operation of both nuclear and non-nuclear facilities. This week she is speaking at the Black History Month celebration at West Texas A&M.

    NNSA Release: NNSA’s Deputy Manager at the Pantex Plant finds his happy place: nära the work he loves while accomplishing the goals he believes in

    Last October, Gabriel “Gabe” Pugh joined the NNSA Production Office (NPO) as the Deputy Manager at the Pantex Plant in Texas. With almost 30 years of experience with the Department of Energy (DOE) in the areas of Nuclear Facility Safety, Nuclear Explosive Operations Safety, and Nuclear Weapon schema Managem

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    NNSA Will Resume 10-Year Cost Forecasts for Weapons Complex Modernization

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) dinged the National Nuclear Security Administration recently for not providing 10 years’ worth of cost forecasts in an annual report to Congress on defense nuclear spending.

    The semiautonomous Department of Energy agency by law must write a joint report each year with the Defense Department profiling the expected costs of ongoing nuclear-weapon and nuclear-weapon-complex modernization. The law, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, says each agency must provide a decade’s worth of cost estimates, beginning with the year of the latest report.

    But in the joint report on fiscal 2019, turned over to Congress in November 2018, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) provided specific forecasts only five years out, to 2023.

    “DOE officials stated that providing budget estimates beyond 2023 in a table would impute a false level of fidelity to the