NAS LAB MGMT. PANEL REPORT EXPECTED THIS WEEK

The National Academy of Sciences panel that for the last year has examined the impact of privatization on the nation’s nuclear weapons laboratories is expected to release its long-awaited report this week in advance of a Feb. 16 Congressional hearing. Chaired by former Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director Charles Shank and UCLA professor Kumar Patel, the panel held a handful of meetings over the last year, traveling to Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Sandia national laboratories to meet with lab employees and administrators and holding several hearings in Washington, D.C., with National Nuclear Security Administration and Department of Energy officials.