§6253 Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must run a fellowship program to help people learn skills needed for the nuclear security enterprise. The program will give educational and research help to eligible U.S. citizens who are either graduate students in science or engineering fields tied to nuclear weapons or the Department of Energy’s science and technology base, or people doing postdoctoral work in those fields. The program will happen at or near national security laboratories and nuclear weapons production facilities and will be run at each site by that facility’s stockpile manager. The Secretary, after talking with the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, will divide program funds among those facilities based on each weapons program director’s report about needed personnel and skills. Participants must sign a written agreement to work full time in the nuclear security enterprise for at least one year after finishing their studies if they are offered such a job.