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The linear accelerator being built as part of the Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection (ASD) project will be longer than a football field.

Bob Webster, deputy Los Alamos National Laboratory director for Weapons (far right); Mike Furlanetto, Scorpius Advanced Sources and Detection project director (center); and Geoffrey Zehnder, project engineer (far left); discuss the prototype module Lab employees constructed for Scorpius' first accelerator cells and modules. The game-changing Scorpius accelerator will be instrumental in maintaining the nuclear stockpile.…

The $1.8 billion Scorpius project will usher in a new era in nuclear weapons testing.

Scientists charged with making sure the United States' aging stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go, if needed, say they’ll start shipping key components to the Nevada desert next year

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists charged with ensuring the aging U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go — if needed — say they’ll start shipping key components to

Scientists tasked with ensuring the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the US nuclear arsenal say they are close to completing a facility that will help them test that.

RENO, Nevada (AP) – The US will start shipping key components to Nevada’s desert next year to prepare for underground testing they call “tickling the dragon’s tail”, said scientists charged with ensuring the efficacy of ageing US stockpile of nuclear weapons. Experts at national defence laboratories haven’t been able to physically validate the effectiveness and […]

Scientists charged with ensuring the aging U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go — if needed — say they'll start shipping key components to...

As early as 2027, the $1.8 billion Scorpius project will make it possible to move beyond theoretical computer modelling to study in much more detail the conditions found inside the final stages of a nuclear weapon implosion but without the nuclear explosion, said Jon Custer, the Sandia project lead in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Scientists charged with ensuring the aging U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons are good to go — if needed — say they’ll start shipping key components to Nevada’s desert next year to prepare for underground testing they call “tickling the dragon’s tail.” Experts at national defense laboratories haven’t been able to physically […]