NS&D Monitor
7/11/2014
NNSA Administrator Klotz Visits Site, Helps With Move
New National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz made his first visit to the Kansas City Plant this week, and personally helped to complete the NNSA’s move to a new nearby facility. During his visit, Klotz packed the last crate at the Bannister Federal Complex to prepare it to be shipped to the NNSA’s new National Security Campus eight miles south of the old facility, according to the agency. “His crate was one of 30,000 packed since January 2013. In all, more than 3,000 truckloads transported thousands of pieces of equipment, some weighing as little as six ounces to a milling machine weighing 87,000 pounds,” an NNSA release says.
Also during his visit, according to NNSA, Klotz “thanked everyone who was involved in this massive effort at an all-hands meeting at the new facility. He congratulated them on completing 99.9 percent of their deliverables on time and on budget while completing one of the largest industrial moves in the country.” The visit mark’s Klotz’s sixth to a site across the weapons complex since he was confirmed by the Senate in April. He’s already visited Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories as well as the Nevada National Security Site, the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Complex.
