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Nuclear Modernization

DoE Agency Opens Small Factory for Nuke Parts

Wednesday, November 24th, 2021

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DoE Agency Opens Small Factory for Nuke Parts

An overhead view of the Kansas City National Security Campus, where the Department of Energy manufactures non-nuclear nuclear-weapon components.

About 100 people are already working at a new Kansas City National Security Campus satellite facility that opened in October just down the road from the National Nuclear Security Administration’s main factory for non-nuclear nuclear weapon parts, a spokesperson said Tuesday. For the moment, however, Building 23 — also called Kansas City East — is not cranking out any nuclear weapons components, the spokesperson for plant prime contractor Honeywell [HON] Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (F&MT) wrote in an email. That…

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