Overview
- Energy Department officials say this is the NNSA’s first furlough during a funding lapse since the agency’s 2000 creation.
- Pantex in Texas and Y-12 in Tennessee are moving into safe shutdown, pausing assembly work that requires large teams.
- The NNSA Office of Secure Transportation remains funded only through October 27, covering movements of nuclear weapons and materials.
- Contractors are projected to run out of money around October 28, which officials warn could stop oversight, production and deliveries to the Pentagon.
- Security personnel continue to guard nuclear facilities, with officials emphasizing no immediate threat but warning of mounting risks to modernization and workforce retention.