Workers tasked with safeguarding nuclear stockpile are off the job amid shutdown

Furloughs hit the NNSA’s Y-12 Field Office in Oak Ridge, where 70 of 78 federal employees are waiting for the government to ...
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NNSA furloughs 80 Percent Of Workforce; Focus On Keeping Pantex And Y-12 Open

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) furloughed around 1,400 employees, 80 percent of its workforce, with only ...

Nation’s nuclear weapon watchdog gutted to just 400 workers from nearly 2,000 as Trump shutdown layoffs hit agency

National Nuclear Security Administration is tasked with safeguarding U.S.’s nuclear stockpile. ‘These are not employees that ...
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National Nuclear Security Administration to furlough 1,400 employees amid government shutdown

"Since its creation in 2000, NNSA has never before furloughed federal workers during funding lapses," Energy Department ...

Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday

The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the ...
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Y-12 continues demolition of Alpha-2 to prepare for future national security projects

The massive demolition project dismantling a historic Manhattan Project building at Y-12 National Security Complex continues to make way for modern advancements ‒ whatever those might look like in the ...

Map Shows Nuclear Weapons Sites That Could Be Hit By Major Furlough

The NNSA began furloughing approximately 80 percent of its civilian workforce on Monday as the government shutdown continues.
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Protestors gather at Y-12 to remember victims, destruction of Hiroshima 80 years later

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Wednesday marked 80 years since the United States attacked Hiroshima, Japan with an atomic bomb. One group gathered in Oak Ridge at the main entrance of the Y-12 National ...
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UT Partners with Y-12 To Establish National Security Prototype Center

Officials with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Consolidated Nuclear Security, which manages and operates the Y-12 National Security Complex for the National Nuclear Security Administration ...
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Inventors at Oak Ridge's Y-12 plant recognized for patents, transferring technology

Y-12 National Security Complex recently celebrated accomplishments in technology transfer over the last four years. Through the Partnerships and Technology Transfer Program, according to a news ...
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Y-12 accepting STEM classroom grant applications

Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) is sponsoring a $5,000 grant for a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classroom project. The goal of the grant, designated for grades K-12, is to ...
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UT partners with Y-12 to establish national security prototype center

Consolidated Nuclear Security President and CEO Rich Tighe signs a memorandum of understanding with University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman at the Tennessee Valley Corridor ...