
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was tracking 13 new cases of COVID-19 across the civilian nuclear weapons enterprise last week ahead of the Independence Day holiday. The weekly count of active cases rose to 46 from 33 as of Thursday, a spokesperson for the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency said. That makes for a total of 109 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, none fatal, among NNSA employees since the first confirmed U.S. case in January. Citing privacy and…