Press Releases

NNSA reached a major nonproliferation milestone this week as it helped Belgium’s National Institute of Radioelements convert their medical isotope production facility to use irradiated low-enriched uranium.

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration released details of President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 Budget request for NNSA, a proposal designed to support the nuclear deterrent, nuclear security, and naval reactors.

Today the National Nuclear Security Administration announced the FY 2022 results of the performance of its Managing and Operating (M&O) partners in meeting NNSA’s performance expectations.

Former workers explain measures taken to keep secret information contained.

DOE/NNSA reached an important milestone on the Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Production Project (LAP4), approving Critical Decision-2/3 – Approve Performance Baseline/Approve Start of Construction – for the 30 Base Equipment Installation subproject.

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced the establishment of a $25 million cooperative agreement with a University of Florida-led consortium of 16 universities for research in nuclear forensics.

Representatives from the governments of Japan and the United States convened virtually for the 14th meeting of the U.S.-Japan Emergency Management Working Group.

SRS recently made the first shipment of downblended surplus plutonium from the site’s K Area, a momentous milestone culminating from multiple years of effort to remove plutonium from the state of South Carolina.

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.