
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) should stop managing the Y-12 National Security Campus and the Pantex Plant under a single contract, a Washington, D.C.-based group representing localities that host Department of Energy nuclear-weapon sites said Tuesday. "[D]oes one contract between two very different sites still make sense?” Seth Kirshenberg, executive director of the Energy Communities Alliance, wrote in a Sept. 8 letter to NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty. Kirshenberg pointed to the NNSA’s latest annual appraisal of…