A U.S. Senator asked Tuesday if a planned manufacturing plant in Kansas poses a threat to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nearby factory in Missouri for non-nuclear nuclear-weapon components.
The conservative publication Daily Caller in December reported that Cnano Technology USA Inc., a company the publication said has ties to Chinese businesses, planned to build a battery material factory in Johnson County, Kansas.
In a letter published Wednesday on his website Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) asked the Department of Defense and the Treasury Department for briefings about whether the planned Cnana facility poses “any threat to Honeywell’s Kansas City National Security Campus (KCNSC).”
KCNSC, managed by Honeywell subsidiary Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies, is about 25 miles from the site of the proposed Cnano battery facility, Marshall said in his letter.
