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Three anti-nuclear-weapons protesters who defaced the side of the Y-12 highly enriched uranium facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., remained in jail Thursday following their conviction the previous day. Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed were convicted on felony counts, but a U.S. district judge...

Babcock & Wilcox may get another chance to continue its oversight of two National Nuclear Security Administration sites after the Government Accountability Office sustained the company's appeal of an earlier NNSA contracting decision. In January, NNSA awarded a Bechtel-Lockheed Martin consortium...

The United States and Russia have helped move the final shipment of highly enriched uranium from a research reactor in the Czech Republic, representing the last of the material in the country that could be used in a nuclear weapon. Since 2004, a partnership under the Global Threat Reduction Initiative...

In its recurring review of "high-risk" government programs, the Government Accountability Office on Thursday noted that the cost estimate for Savannah River's Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility recently increased by $2 billion. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security...

Another bidder has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office after the National Nuclear Security Administration awarded a Bechtel-Lockheed Martin consortium an extensive contract to manage security sites. Earlier this month, the semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy awarded...

The National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded a consortium led by Bechtel National and Lockheed Martin Services a contract worth upwards of $709 million to take over management of nuclear weapons facilities that include Y-12 and Pantex. Subsidiaries of Babcock & Wilcox had held the management...

The contracted security force at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility is facing more heat from the Department of Energy after the agency's inspector general concluded that answers to a knowledge test had been distributed beforehand. Following an embarrassing security breach last summer, DOE terminated...

B&W Y-12 took over security at the Department of Energy's Y-12 facility Monday from WSI Oak Ridge, a move precipitated by an embarrassing security breach in July. In a release, DOE said it terminated the WSI Oak Ridge contract at the recommendation of the National Nuclear Security Administration...

So far, at least six people have been disciplined after reports that anti-nuclear weapons protestors breached security outside a uranium storage facility at the Y-12 site. On July 28, three activists, including an 82-year-old nun, were accused of entering a secure area and defacing the side of the Highly...

Four activists participating in a mock “foreclosure” of the Lawrence Livermore national lab in California were arrested without incident Sunday. They were part of a protest commemorating the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. While the lab was established in 1952, well after...

Three protesters were arrested at the Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee Saturday, accused of cutting through multiple security fences and entering a secure area. Two men and an 82-year-old nun and peace activist remained in custody Monday after police alleged they spray painted messages and...

Madison, Wis.-based Phoenix Nuclear Labs on Monday announced a round of venture capital funding for its particle accelerator technology, which has helped researchers develop a safer way to produce an isotope used frequently for medical imaging. The $590,500 in recently announced equity comes from Wisconsin...

Among the help the U.S. government has provided Japan following the March 11 earthquake and nuclear emergency, the Department of Energy continues to monitor radiation around the site of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Three days after the earthquake, the agency, in tandem with the National...

"NNSA is a model for organizations that value project management as a competency that increases success rates, creates efficiencies and enables alignment of demanding strategic requirements” - Edited By Tom Lamar - Project Management Institute (PMI), a pofessional membership organization...

Shipments mark an important step in carrying out Ukraine’s commitment at the Nuclear Security Summit to eliminate all of its HEU by 2012 - Edited By Tom Lamar - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the removal of 50 kilograms (111 pounds) of highly enriched...

- Edited By Chris Reed - NNSA and South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) Cooperate to Achieve First-Ever Large-Scale Medical Isotope Production Using Low Enriched Uranium The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the South Africa Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) announced...

"We welcome Finland’s ongoing and generous support to NNSA’s nuclear nonproliferation programs," said NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino. "This contribution underscores the cooperation between our two countries to strengthen global efforts to secure vulnerable nuclear...

Naval Reactors began reactor and propulsion plant design in fiscal year 2010 for the OHIO Replacement submarine to support the Navy's schedule. Reactor plant components will be procured in 2017 to allow for the long manufacturing spans and need for these components in submarine construction to support...

We congratulate the NSO Aviation Program, for its outstanding work, and we are proud to have programs of its caliber serving throughout the nuclear security enterprise,” said Administrator D’Agostino. “From Stockpile Stewardship to international nonproliferation efforts to emergency...

Additional Protocol Declaration Helper to Provide States Assistance in Meeting Nuclear Safeguards Commitments - By April Murelio - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the launch of a new web tool to help countries implement their safeguards commitments under the International...

Awarded each year by the R&D Magazine to the best technological advances at universities, private corporations, and government labs around the world, the R&D 100 Awards are occasionally referred to as “the Nobel Prizes of technology.” They were first awarded in 1963 as the I-R 100s...

The release of these new security policies is an important first step in using the Security Reform Initiative to drive improvements in our security posture while also ensuring that we are being a responsible steward of tax dollars. These reforms will ultimately result in updated security policies and...

The agreement paves the way for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to work with the Ministry of Finance’s General Department of Customs and other government ministries in Vietnam to install radiation detection equipment and an associated communications...

This recovery is part of NNSA’s broad strategy to keep dangerous nuclear and radiological material safe and secure and protect the American people by enhancing our nation’s nuclear security,” said Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Ken Baker...

The NNSA Los Alamos Site Office is responsible for administering the management and operations contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory as well as managing federal activities at the laboratory - By Linton Levy - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the selection...