
The No. 2 official at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday briefed members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board on the “staggering goal” of swelling the nuclear-weapon steward’s workforce by about 20,000 heads over the next six years. Those hirings would be spread across the NNSA complex, including its national laboratories and other sites. “[W]e’re going to have to go through a major infrastructure modernization process,” William Bookless, NNSA principal deputy administrator, told the 16-member board…