A employee at Department of Energy headquarters in Washington, D.C., has died from COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Tuesday. News of the he death, the first confirmed COVID-19 fatality at DoE, hit while the agency logged more cases at defense nuclear sites. “I regret to share ...

Essential workers, including those at Department of Energy nuclear-weapon plants that have not paused operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic, should be able to get tested for the virus daily, and have ready access to protective equipment, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said Tuesday. ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee is initiating a public exchange of letters with senior Trump administration officials regarding the Department of Energy’s fiscal 2021 nuclear-weapon budget request. It is one of the committee’s so-called “paper hearings,” invented to prevent public ...

The Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., was preparing Monday to move some of its workforce back on site, even as the host counties for two other Department of Energy facilities in the state faced new difficulties from the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the two DoE nuclear weapons ...

Because of COVID-19, Consolidated Nuclear Security, site management and operations contractor for two of the Department of Energy’s weapons-production sites, will wait perhaps until June to find out what fee it earned for 2019, and whether it is staying on the job. “Due to the ongoing ...

There is at least one confirmed case of COVID-19 among the workforce of the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, where the Department of Energy assembles and disassembles nuclear weapons for maintenance and modernization. In a statement, Pantex said the employee who tested positive became ill at work ...