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Pantex

The Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas, the nation’s primary site for nuclear weapons assembly, disassembly, and plutonium pit storage.

  • Environmental scientists in protective suits surveying contaminated soil at an industrial cleanup site.
    Cleanup & Remediation

    New BWXT Chief Wants More DOE Legacy Cleanup Biz

    With the impending ascension of former NASA hand Rex Geveden to the top spot at BWX Technologies, the Lynchburg, Va.-company has set an an outsider from the aerospace business in charge of an effort to grow the company’s legacy nuclear cleanup business with the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management. “We remain strongly committed to […]

  • Two professionals reviewing and signing a contract document together in an office setting.
    Contracts & Procurement

    CNS Exceeds Small Business Contracting Goals in FY16

    Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), the management and operating contractor for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant, said Tuesday it surpassed its small business contracting goals for fiscal year 2016. CNS awarded more than $276 million to small businesses across its two sites, 67 percent of all the funding […]

  • National Laboratories

    Congressional Republicans Punt on Final 2017 Spending Bill After Trump Victory

    Federal agencies including the Energy Department will remain funded at fiscal 2016 levels through at least the first two months of President-elect Donald Trump’s term, Republican congressional leaders decided this week. “To this end, my Committee will begin working immediately on a Continuing Resolution (CR) at the current rate of funding to extend the operations […]