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	<title>Y-12 National Security Complex: NNSA News Releases</title>
	<description>The Y-12 National Security Complex is an integral part of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex focused on support of U.S. nuclear defense policies.</description>
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		<title><![CDATA[NNSA Security Professional of the Year Awards Presented to Two Oak Ridge Officials]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Oak Ridge federal and contractor officials have been named as 
the recipients of the third annual Security Professional of the 
Year Award for the National Nuclear Security Administration 
(NNSA).]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=22</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Participant in America&#8217;s Veterans to Tennessee Engineers Program Receives Degree]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the America&#8217;s Veterans to Tennessee Engineers Program nears its second anniversary, the first veteran in the program is completing his studies at the University of Tennessee with a degree in Engineering.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=21</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Y-12 &#8216;meshes&#8217; security communications with new technology]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Nuclear Security Administration&#8217;s Y-12 National Security Complex is adopting state-of-the-art security technology originally developed for the military to provide real-time secure communications during an emergency.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=20</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Y-12 finishes initial HEUMF loading ahead of schedule]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials at the Y-12 National Security Complex announced today they have 
finished the transfer of enriched uranium from a warehouse in operation since 
the 1940s into the nation&#8217;s new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials 
Facility more than two weeks ahead of an already highly accelerated schedule.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=19</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Secretary Chu Dedicates HEUMF at Y-12]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Secretary Chu, NNSA Administrator and the Tennessee Congressional Delegation Join Local Officials in Dedicating Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at Y-12.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=18</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[NNSA Authorizes Start-up of HEUMF at Y-12]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[NNSA today announced that NNSA Administrator Thomas P. D&#8217;Agostino has authorized the start-up of the new Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility (HEUMF) at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The start-up of this new storage facility marks a major milestone in NNSA&#8217;s efforts to create a modern, 21st Century nuclear security enterprise.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=17</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Record-setting year for nuclear weapon dismantlement at Y-12]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Y-12 National Security Complex has achieved the highest nuclear weapon dismantlement throughput level in more than 25&#160;years.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=16</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Biology Complex Demolition Project begins spring 2010]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A major step toward a skyline changing transformation at the 
Y-12 National Security Complex will commence in spring 2010 as demolition begins on four buildings in the former Biology Complex, visible from the site&#8217;s main entrance.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=15</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Stan Watkins Named DOE Facility  Representative of the Year]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stan Watkins of the National Nuclear Security Administration&#8217;s Y&#8209;12 Site Office has been named the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) &#8220;Facility Representative of the Year.&#8221;]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=14</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Y-12 completes work to remove nuclear materials from historic production facility]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Y-12 National Security Complex has completed the removal of special nuclear materials from a World War II era nuclear weapons production facility.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=13</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[NNSA announces decisions to transform National Security Enterprise]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The plan to transform and downsize the National Nuclear Security Administration&#8217;s (NNSA&#8217;s) infrastructure moved forward today as the head of NNSA signed two formal decision documents to begin its implementation. That action allows the agency to continue the process of moving from an aging, Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex into a 21st century national security enterprise.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=12</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Christenson named federal project director]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dale Christenson has been named Federal Project Director for the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=11</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nuclear weapons dismantlements up 20 percent]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile dismantlements have increased by 20&#160;percent over last fiscal year&#8217;s level, according to the administrator of the Department of Energy&#8217;s National Nuclear Security Administration (<acronym title="National Nuclear Security Administration">NNSA</acronym>).  This feat was achieved through an increase in the productivity of the workforce and improved efficiencies in the process.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=10</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Y-12 achieves completion of major construction milestone]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Officials at the Y-12 National Security Complex have announced the completion of the major construction milestone on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility project.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=9</link>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aging nuclear weapons buildings torn down]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three million square feet of old buildings, many from the earliest days of the Cold War, have been torn down across the eight sites that make up the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) national security complex. This accomplishment, achieved a year early, will allow <acronym title="National Nuclear Security Administration">NNSA</acronym> to be more efficient in meeting its national security commitments.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<link>http://www.y12.doe.gov/news/nnsarelease.php?id=8</link>
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