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Two Senior, Career Feds Retire From DoE Nuke Agency

Monday, November 23rd, 2020

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Two Senior, Career Feds Retire From DoE Nuke Agency

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Geoffrey Beausoleil will retire in April as the local federal official for the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) production office, which oversees the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas, he said in an email. Separately, a senior DoE official tweeted Friday that Steve Erhart, a former policy manager in the office of the NNSA administrator, and briefly acting administrator himself in 2018, is leaving federal service. It was…

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