RELEASE OF NAS REPORT ON MGMT. OF WEAPONS LABS PUSHED BACK

The expected release of the long-awaited National Academy of Sciences report on the impact of privatization at the nation’s nuclear weapons laboratories has been pushed back until next week, according to one of the study’s main organizers. Dick Rowberg, the Deputy Executive Director in the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academies, told NW&M Monitor that the report is now expected to be released Feb. 15—in time for a hearing the next day before the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee on governance of the nuclear weapons laboratories. Charles Shank, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director that co-chaired the study, is scheduled to testify at the Feb. 16 hearing along with former Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio, former Sandia National Laboratories Director Paul Robinson, former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director George Miller, and former Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group President Bob Cochran. Rowberg said that the report had been held up waiting for internal approval, but that the substance of the report was not in question.