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DoE Nuke Agency Confirms Seven More COVID-19 Cases; HQ to Expand Operations

Monday, June 22nd, 2020

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DoE Nuke Agency Confirms Seven More COVID-19 Cases; HQ to Expand Operations

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There were seven confirmed new cases of COVID-19 across the U.S. civilian nuclear weapons complex last week, a spokesperson for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration said Friday. That makes for a total of 119 cases at the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency since confirmation in January of the first U.S. case of the viral disease, which is caused by the novel coronavirus that broke out last year in Wuhan, China. Nobody working at National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)…

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