
Restructuring the independent federal agency charged with health and safety oversight at Department of Energy nuclear-weapon and cleanup sites will not involve layoffs, according to the head of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.“We are not going to have to involuntarily separate anyone,” acting DNFSB Chairman Bruce Hamilton said Thursday in a telephone interview.Hamilton spoke a day after the DNFSB announced a major reorganization under which by 2019 the agency could cut staff at its Washington headquarters by roughly half, set up two…