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Nuclear Modernization

Recent and Impending DoE Leadership Churn Highlight Need to Fix NNSA Chief’s Term, Nat’l Academies Panel Says

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

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Recent and Impending DoE Leadership Churn Highlight Need to Fix NNSA Chief’s Term, Nat’l Academies Panel Says

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The personnel churn in the Trump administration’s nuclear-weapons enterprise and Joe Biden’s election as President of the United States highlight the urgency of giving the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) a fixed term, members of a National Academies panel said Wednesday. “At the moment we not only have secretary and deputy secretary of energy positions that will be vacant [but] we don’t have a [National Nuclear Security Administration] administrator,” T.J. Glauthier, a deputy secretary of energy during…

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