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COVID-19

Worker at DoE Nuke Production Site Has COVID-19

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

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Worker at DoE Nuke Production Site Has COVID-19

COVID-19 has hit the nuclear weapons production complex, with one employee at the Y-12 National Security Campus testing positive for the disease, a spokesperson for site’s management and operations contract said Tuesday. Y-12, like the Pantex weapons assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas, is managed by the Bechtel National-led Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS). There are no confirmed cases at Pantex, which according to the plant’s main switchboard and website was still operating normally and running its three usual shifts, as of…

Congress

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Army

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