A total of nine employees at the Department of Energy Hanford Site in Washington state informed management Monday they have tested positive for COVID-19.
That is according to a post on a DOE website for Hanford maintained by Leidos-led Hanford Mission Integration Solutions.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina posted on its emergency status website that 101 employees at the 310-square mile federal complex were quarantined with COVID-19, down from 133 on the prior Friday.
On Sept. 2, Fluor-led Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, the site management contractor, said its staff must become vaccinated against COVID-19. The Savannah River prime contractor announced its mandatory vaccination order days after Triad National Security, operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, said it would require employee vaccinations.
On Sept. 9, President Joe Biden issued an executive order saying federal employees and federal contractors would soon be required to be inoculated for COVID-19.
