New National Nuclear Security Administration chief Frank Klotz will take his first tour of the weapons complex as the agency’s administrator next week, making stops at the Nevada National Security Site, the agency’s Albuquerque Complex, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, NNSA spokesman Josh McConaha said yesterday. At Sandia, Klotz will meet with the directors of the NNSA’s three weapons laboratories and tour recently refurbished test facilities. He’ll tour the Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building at Los Alamos and check in on the recently completed security upgrade at the lab’s Plutonium Facility. He’ll hold all-hands meetings with staff at all three sites.
KLOTZ TO TAKE FIRST TOUR OF WEAPONS COMPLEX NEXT WEEK
Groups seek NEPA review of plan to issue surplus plutonium to private companies
The South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP) is demanding the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) conduct a public environmental review of plans to provide 19.7 metric tons of surplus weapons-grade plutonium to private nuclear companies. SCELP published the letter of demand Sept. 8 on behalf of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, […]