
The prime contractors for civilian nuclear-weapon sites get no “lasting benefit” from their corporate parent companies, the interests of which may conflict with national security, a small group of National Nuclear Security Administration employees wrote in a report dated September 2022. At the heart of the conflict, the six-member panel wrote in its report, is the longstanding practice of paying nuclear-weapon management and operations contractors — which are often jointly owned — an annual fee for completing an agency-authored list…