NNSA News

NNSA will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over Glendale, Arizona, and surrounding areas Sunday, Jan. 15, through Wednesday, Jan. 18, in preparation for Super Bowl LVII.

NNSA and DOE's Office of Environmental Management completed the first shipment of downblended surplus plutonium transuranic (TRU) material from K-Area at the Savannah River Site to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico in December.

The Department of Energy published a Final Rule in the Federal Register strengthening the Department’s ability to enforce regulations governing exports of unclassified civil nuclear technology. 

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement titled “Community and Junior College Trade Occupation Program” on December 16th, 2022.

NNSA will conduct low-altitude helicopter flights over the Las Vegas Strip Thursday, Dec. 29 and Saturday, Dec. 31 in preparation for the city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations.

NNSA published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register Dec. 16, 2022, announcing the availability of the draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program Environmental Impact Statement for comment.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)—a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making.

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced today it has exercised Option Periods 1 through 5 of Triad National Security, LLC’s management and operating contract for Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Once approved by regulators, the new facility will significantly increase domestic production capability for isotope used to fight heart disease and cancer

NNSA partnered with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) to exercise two rapid response capabilities critical to national security: the Mobile Uranium and Mobile Plutonium Facilities.