Todd Jacobson
NS&D Monitor
6/13/2014
National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz will visit the Pantex Plant June 17 as his tour across the weapons complex continues. Klotz last week visited the Y-12 National Security Complex, and in May he toured the Nevada National Security Site and Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. Confirmed in April, Klotz has yet to visit the Kansas City Plant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Savannah River Site.
Klotz’s visit to Pantex will coincide with a ribbon-cutting for the plant’s new five-turbine wind farm, which is expected to generate about 11.5 megawatts of energy for the plant. Klotz said this week at an Energy Facility Contractors Group meeting that other visits around the complex are also being planned “The objective is to get to all of our major sites within the first 100 days,” he said. “We have a 100-day plan we are marching through that involves not only getting out to the sites but making sure we have an opportunity to sit down and meet with our major stakeholders, whether it’s within government and in industry.”
One possibility is that Klotz could visit the Kansas City Plant in early July when plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies is expected to wrap up a move into the plant’s new home. “When I go out to the sites we have been holding all-hands meetings in an attempt to introduce all of our people … to the new leadership team in NNSA and what our priorities are. We also go around and take a look at the facilities. I particularly have been trying to focus not just on the facilities directly related to the mission but also on those areas that are in need of major repair or ultimately replacement,” he said.
