The NNSA quarterly summary of experiments conducted as part of its science-based stockpile stewardship program is now available [1]. The summary presents descriptions of key NNSA facilities that have been recently conducted stockpile stewardship experiments.
The quarterly summary prepared by NNSA’s Office of Defense Programs [2] provides descriptions of key NNSA facilities that conduct stockpile stewardship experiments. These include the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test [3] facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, National Ignition Facility [4] at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Z machine [5] at Sandia National Laboratories.
The U.S. Stockpile Stewardship Program is a robust program of scientific inquiry used to sustain and assess the nuclear weapons stockpile without the use of underground nuclear tests. The experiments carried out within the program are used in combination with complex computational models and NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program [6] to assess the safety, security and effectiveness of the stockpile.
