Los Alamos Study Group

Table 1: Overview of the Principal Sites in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex and Their Operating Contractors

Compiled by the Los Alamos Study Group, December 15, 2005; see notes for details

Site	Location	Land Area	FY 2005 NNSA Budget ($Million)[1]	Contractor	Direct Contractor Employment[2]	Contract Duration/ Expiration	U.S. Senators	Congressional District & Representative
Kansas City Plant (KCP)	Kansas City, MO; 12 miles S of downtown Kansas City	122 acres	369.5	Honeywell [16][3]	2,800 (out of 3,400 employees site-wide)	End of 2007[4]	Christopher Bond Jim Talent	Dist. 5 Emanuel Cleaver
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)	Livermore, CA; 45 miles E of San Francisco	12 sq. miles	1189.0	University of California [8]3	4,900 (out of 7,700 employees site-wide)	June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2010[5]	Barbara Boxer Diane Feinstein	Dist. 10 Ellen Tauscher
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)	Los Alamos, NM; 25 miles NW of Santa Fe	28,000 acres	1,571.0	University of California [8] 3	6,000 (out of 8,600 employees site-wide)	June 1, 2006[6]	Jeff Bingaman Pete Domenici	Dist. 3 Tom Udall
NNSA Service Center	Albuquerque, NM (at Kirtland AFB)		565.5	N/A	[472 federal]	N/A	Jeff Bingaman Pete Domenici	Dist. 1 Heather Wilson
Nevada Test Site (NTS)	65 miles NW of Las Vegas	1,375 sq. miles	419.0	Bechtel Nevada Corporation[7] [14] 3	2,400 (out of 3,500 employees site-wide)	Oct. 1, 2005 to Dec. 31, 2005[8]	John Ensign Harry Reid	Dist. 1 Shelley Berkley
Pantex Plant	Panhandle, TX; 17 miles NE of Amarillo	16,000 acres	526.9	BWXT Pantex, LLC [22] 3	3,200 (out of 3,400 employees site-wide)	Feb. 1, 2006 to Sept. 30, 2010[9]	John Cornyn Kay Hutchison	Dist. 13 Mac Thornberry
Sandia National Laboratory (SNL)	Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), S of Albuquerque, NM[10]	9,000 acres	1373.2	Lockheed Martin Corporation[11] [1] 3	5,300 (out of 8,700 employees site-wide)	Oct. 1, 2003 to Sept. 30, 2009[12]	Jeff Bingaman Pete Domenici	Dist. 1 Heather Wilson
Savannah River Site (SRS)	Western South Carolina; bordering the Savannah River	310 sq. miles	319.5	Westinghouse Savannah River Company, LLC[13] [71] 3	1,700 (out of 10,100 employees site-wide)	Sept. 30, 2006[14]	Lindsey Graham Jim DeMint	Dist. 3 J. Gresham Barrett
Y-12 National Security Complex	20 miles W of Knoxville, TN	800 acres	918.4	BWXT Y-12, LLC [22]3	4,000 (out of 4,500 Site-wide)	Oct. 1, 2005 to Sept. 30, 2010[15]	Lamar Alexander Bill Frist	Dist. 2 John J. Duncan, Jr.
Washington Headquarters	Washington, DC & Germantown, MD		602.7	N/A	[777 federal; 2,736 all NNSA sites][16]	N/A

Notes to Table 1:

[1] Mid-fiscal year (FY) 2005 estimates for total National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) activities at the sites and adjacent site offices, from Department of Energy (DOE) FY2006 Congressional Budget Request, Vol. 1 NNSA, February 2005, http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/06budget/Start.htm. Total site expenditures at some sites, specially at the three labs, are significantly greater than NNSA funding alone. Figures include contract funds expended at other locations; this is especially important for the two NNSA administrative sites.

[2] Projected figures for FY 2006. (DOE, op. cit.) These figures do not include all the subcontractors, or the federal employees at KCP, LLNL, LANL, NTS, Pantex, SNL, SRS, or Y-12.

[3] The bracketed figure are the approximate ranks of these contractors in terms of overall defense procurement (DoD + DOE), omitting clandestine contracts.

[4] Heaster, Randolph, “Panel backs Honeywell plant closure, consolidation plan would shut KC facility,” The Kansas City Star(MO), 19 July, 2005.

[5] DOE Press Release, “Energy Department Awards Contract to the University of California to Manage and Operate Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,” 19 April 2005, http://www.doe.gov/engine/content.do?PUBLIC_ID=17783&BT_CODE=PR_PRESSRELEASES&TT_CODE=PRESSRELEASE.

[6] Lenderman, Andy, “Fairness Key in Choosing New LANL Management,” The Santa Fe New Mexican, 2 October 2005.

[7] Bechtel Nevada Corporation is composed of Bechtel Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Johnson Controls Worldwide Services.

[8] NTS Site Office, http://www.doeal.gov/Nevadacontractrecompete/CurrentContract/ExtensionOfCurrentNevadaTestSiteContract.doc.

[9] Pantex Press Release, “BWXT Pantex Earns Contract Extension to Manage Pantex Plant,” http://www.pantex.com/currentnews/index.htm.

[10] Sandia National Laboratory also has facilities in Livermore, California (400 acres), Kauai, Hawaii (120 acres) and Tonopah, Nevada (600 sq. miles).

[11] Lockheed Martin is also in partnership with British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., and SERCO, forming the Atomic Weapons Establishment Management, Ltd. (AWEML), which manages nuclear weapons sites in the United Kingdom.

[12] NNSA Press Release, “NNSA to extend contract for operation of Sandia National Laboratories,” 9 December 2004, http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/docs/newsreleases/2004/PR_NA-04-32_Sandia_Contract_%2812-9%29.htm

[13] Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC), LLC is a consortium of four partner firms: Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Bechtel Savannah River Company, Inc., BNFL Savannah River Corporation, and BWXT Savannah River Company.

[14] Gelinas, Josh, “Volunteers eliminate need for SRS layoffs,” The August Chronicle, 26 October 2005.

[15] Munger, Frank, “Negotiations to begin with BWXT for new Y-12 contract - Announcement sign that extension has been approved in D.C.” The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 2 June, 2005.

[16] Total NNSA federal employment, includes 204 persons in naval reactors, 100 in environmental projects, 575 in secure transportation, and 1,857 in all other programs.

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