
Sources said the management and operations contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two big nuclear-weapons production sites suspended its employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate this week after a federal judge in Georgia blocked the Biden administration’s mandate for all federal contractors. A pair of other nuclear-weapon sites, however, said they would keep mandates in place. The Bechtel National-led Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) suspended the mandate for employees at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, and the Y-12 National Security Complex…