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Acting NNSA Chief Bookless Leaving on Inauguration Day

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Acting NNSA Chief Bookless Leaving on Inauguration Day
Will Bookless, the principal deputy administrator of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, speaks to members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board in Chicago on Oct. 02. SOURCE: DOE

William Bookless will resign as acting administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on inauguration day, Jan. 20, setting up career civil servant David Huizenga to shepherd the nuclear-weapons agency through the early days of the Joe Biden administration. Bookless announced his impending departure Monday in an all-hands memo to NNSA staff. Bookless has led the semiautonomous Department of Energy agency since the first week of November, when Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette demanded that Lisa Gordon-Hagerty resign as…

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