NNSA cuts funding for LANL contractor
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028538
Santa Fe New Mexican : The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has decided to cut federal funding for the private consortium that manages the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Following the NNSA’s annual evaluation, officials decided that Los Alamos National Security LLC will receive just 10% of the $63 million in potential fees that had been allocated for 2014 and will lose one year of its contract, which will now end 1 October 2017. The funding cuts are due to the lab management group’s “performance failures” following a radiation leak that occurred on 14 February 2014 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad among others. The cause of the leak, which may cause WIPP to be closed for several years, is still under investigation by the Department of Energy.
