Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

NNSA Evaluates Impact of SRNS Safety Pause

By Photo of Staff Reports

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions’ (SRNS) safety pause on all nonessential work last fall had “direct financial and schedule impacts on National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) programs,” the agency said last week in its fiscal 2015 performance evaluation…

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