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Religious Exemption to LANL Vax Mandate Means Leave Without Pay
Workers who secure a religious exemption to the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate will be barred from the lab and allowed only to go on vacation or take leave without pay until they quit their jobs or get vaccinated, according to an all-hands memo from lab Director Thomas Mason. “On October 15, staff who have been granted a religious exemption will be placed on [leave without pay] status or may use vacation until the Laboratory determines the threat of COVID-19 has diminished sufficiently to allow them to return to work,” Mason wrote in the Sept. 20 memo, the text of which Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor saw this…
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S.C. State Senator From SRS Area Wants 80-20 Split in Plutonium Settlement Money
The minority leader of the South Carolina Senate this week made an opening bid in the statewide tug-of-war over hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal money up for grabs from last year’s plutonium settlement with Columbia: $100 million…
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Final Solicitation for SRS Site Ops in October, DOE Says; Portsmouth, Paducah Bids in January
The Department of Energy missed its self-imposed target to issue a final request for proposals by Sept. 30 for the multibillion-dollar Savannah River Site Management and Operating Contract and now plans to put the deal on the street in October.…
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Dem Lawmakers Introduce ‘Nuclear Waste Task Force’ in New Bill
A pair of Democratic lawmakers this week introduced a bill that would allow a mostly non-federal taskforce, appointed in large part by the Environmental Protection Agency, to help define consent-based siting of nuclear waste and consider whether such waste could…
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Stockpile Stewardship Tools Today ‘Far Outstrip’ What Creators Thought Possible, LLNL Director Says
Todays’ computing, modeling and simulation tools, plus the National Ignition Facility that unlocks physics “not accessible in the laboratory,” have given nuclear-weapon stewards capabilities unimaginable almost 30 years ago, when the U.S. ceased explosive tests, the director of the Lawrence…
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