Nuclear Modernization
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COVID-19One Nuke Lab Starts Self-Testing Workers; Another Could Follow This Week
The Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories started offering limited COVID-19 tests for its employees last week, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory could start testing this week, according to a […]
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COVID-19DoE Headquarters COVID-19 Cases Rise to Eight
The Department of Energy on Friday reported three more cases of COVID-19 among its workforce in the Washington capital region, including the first confirmed case at the agency’s Germantown, Md., […]
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COVID-19NNSA Production Sites Hunker Down Amid COVID-19 Crisis; No Workforce-wide Testing
All but one of the main Department of Energy nuclear weapons production sites have now hunkered down into minimum mission-critical operations because of COVID-19, keeping only the personnel needed to […]
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Business/FinancialSouth Carolina Nuke Weapons Work Moving to New Contract
In an arrangement similar to the status quo, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will fund its nuclear weapons work in South Carolina through a potentially decade-long management and operations […]
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COVID-19
Energy Dept. HQ Employee Dies of COVID-19
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 […]
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COVID-19Daily Testing, Protective Equipment, Needed for Essential Workers, House Armed Services Chair Says
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 […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSenate Armed Services to Quiz DoE, DoD Officials in ‘Paper Hearing’ on Nukes
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 […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Nuke Engineering Lab Allowing Some Workers Back in After COVID-19 Case
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 […]
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Business/Financial
DoE Delays Decision About Extending Nuke Production Contract
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 […]
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COVID-19Civilian Nuke Assembly Site Confirms First COVID-19 Case
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 […]