No Layoffs, But Much 'Attrition' Expected in Impending DNFSB Restructuring

摘要

Restructuring the independent federal agency charged with health and safety oversight at Department of Energy nuclearweapon and cleanup sites will not involve layoffs, according to the head of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. “We are not going to have to involuntarily separate anyone,” acting DNFSB Chairman Bruce Hamilton said in an Aug. 16 telephone interview with Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor. Hamilton spoke to the Monitor a day after the DNFSB announced a major reorganization that will begin in 2019, and under which the agency plans to cut its total headcount to 79 from around 100. The agency also intends to nearly double the number of inspectors deployed permanently throughout the DOE nuclear weapons complex, and set up two new field offices near defense-nuclear sites in Nevada and New Mexico, Hamilton said.