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No. 2 DoE Nuke Official Briefs on ‘Staggering’ Hiring Goals for Civilian Nuclear Enterprise

No. 2 DoE Nuke Official Briefs on ‘Staggering’ Hiring Goals for Civilian Nuclear Enterprise
Will Bookless, the principal deputy administrator of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, speaks to members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board in Chicago on Oct. 02. SOURCE: DOE

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…

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