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COVID-19

New COVID Cases at DOE Nuke Agency Again Top 250 in a Week, With Another Fatality

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020

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New COVID Cases at DOE Nuke Agency Again Top 250 in a Week, With Another Fatality

COVID-19. (Photo: CDC)

There were 270 new, confirmed COVID-19 cases, including another fatal case, among National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) contractor employees and civil servants as of the end of the Thanksgiving holiday week, an agency spokesperson said Monday. The fatal case was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory: the second COVID-19 death at the nation’s first nuclear weapons lab, and the fifth overall for semi autonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons steward, the spokesperson said. The Nevada National Security Site has had two…

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Congress

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Missile Defense

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Missile Defense

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