Rick Perry
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is coming to Oak Ridge on Monday at the invitation of U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican.
U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican whose district includes Oak Ridge, will also attend.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Perry, a former Texas governor, as the 14th United States energy secretary on March 2. (You can see his biography here.) This will be his first trip to Oak Ridge.
Oak Ridge has several U.S. Department of Energy or National Nuclear Security Administration sites. (The NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within DOE.) The Oak Ridge sites include East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge Office, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, and Y-12 National Security Complex.
There are other corporations that also do significant work for DOE in Oak Ridge, including Centrus Energy and ORAU, among others.
More information will be added as it becomes available.
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