
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) decision to study transferring some $300 million in annual defense nuclear materials operations to Tennessee from South Carolina is “routine,” according to the head of the Department of Energy’s cleanup mission at the Savannah River Site.“This is just a routine kind of process we always go through, especially where there’s different new leadership about looking at doing an evaluation of how things operate and what’s the best way to do it and what’s the…