BWXT plans to invest $714.5 million and add 181 jobs at Jonesborough, Tennessee, under an expansion agreement announced by the state on 6 November.
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The additional positions would more than double the company’s current local workforce, according to the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. An economic-development grant supports the expansion, which will produce high-purity depleted uranium for the US National Nuclear Security Administration.
This is a nuclear-materials manufacturing project supporting national security, rather than a new electricity-generating reactor. The federal agency’s environmental assessment identifies the Jonesborough work as supporting operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
The state agreement builds on a ten-year, $1.6 billion NNSA contract awarded in September 2025. That earlier federal award is background to the newly announced investment and employment commitment, not a second new contract.
The 181 figure represents planned job creation. The announcement does not provide a hiring timetable, a breakdown of roles or an equivalent number of currently open vacancies.
Source: Tennessee’s 6 November announcement. Background: NNSA environmental assessment.
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Image credit: Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, before 2007. Illustrative customer-facility file photograph, not BWXT’s Jonesborough site or its expansion. US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge / Wikimedia Commons, public domain (US federal-government work). Resized and converted to WebP.
