
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy nuclear-weapon site closest to a major metropolitan area, is preparing for another month of stay-at-home orders in surrounding Alameda County, Calif., which has a high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Livemore is still performing only essential national security work and still requires most of its roughly 6,300 employees to stay home. With Alameda and other San Francisco Bay Area counties extending shelter-in-place orders through May, Livermore is getting more strict…