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Managers given 200 characters to justify not firing nuclear regulators
The National Nuclear Security Administration is a semi-autonomous agency within the Department of Energy that oversees the U.S. stockpile of thousands of nuclear weapons. Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees.
Just days before, officials in leadership had scrambled to write descriptions for the roughly 300 probationary employees at the agency who had joined the federal workforce less than two years ago. Two employees from the National Nuclear Security Administration use gamma detectors to test the outside of a container of highly-enriched uranium for surface contamination at the Charleston Weapons Station near Goose Creek, S.C. on March 19, 2010. "Per OPM [Office of Personnel Management] instructions, DOE finds that your further employment would not be in the public interest," it read in part.
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