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Two senators urged Energy Secretary Chris Wright to crack down on Chinese nationals\u2019 gaining access to sensitive information at Energy national laboratories.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe write expressing serious concern regarding the Department of Energy\u2019s continued practice of permitting foreign nationals from China to access facilities across the National Laboratory complex and work alongside American scientists,\u201d Sens. Tom Cotton and Mike Lee stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecent DOE data underscores that this practice puts the nation\u2019s research enterprise at risk of foreign intelligence collection and technology transfers that will benefit our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Cotton, Arkansas Republican, is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Mr. Lee, Utah Republican, heads the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.<\/p>\n

According to Energy data, about 3,200 Chinese nationals visited, or worked, both long-term and short-term, at the national laboratories as of September 2025, and about 2,100 were formally employed by the labs.<\/p>\n

Chinese nationals also access national laboratories either physically or electronically more than 5,000 times in 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese facts reflect severe vulnerabilities at our nation\u2019s premier and most sensitive scientific environments,\u201d the senators stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina is our main competitor in research and development and the race for emerging tech, where it seeks to surpass the United States by stealing American intellectual property and technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the threat that has been known for a decade, the Energy Department has failed to restrict Chinese nationals from access to the laboratories.<\/p>\n

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The senators asked Mr. Wright to answer specific security-related questions about the Chinese access, including how China\u2019s recent national intelligence law obligates all Chinese nationals, including those at the national labs, to cooperate with Chinese spy services.<\/p>\n

Also, Mr. Cotton and Mr. Lee asked whether the Chinese are granted access to controlled technologies, export-controlled technologies, or any other sensitive research and if so, how many were given access.<\/p>\n

The department has the stated mission of advancing U.S. scientific leadership, protecting national security and safeguarding key technologies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mission can\u2019t be achieved when it\u2019s undermined by thousands of Chinese nationals infiltrating the National Labs each year,\u201d Mr. Cotton and Mr. Lee said.<\/p>\n

The senators\u2019 security concerns regarding Chinese infiltration of the national laboratories are not new.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a private security and intelligence firm revealed in a report that Beijing targeted scientists at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory for recruitment, and that more than 160 researchers returned to China over more than three decades and were helping China\u2019s nuclear and other advanced weapons programs.<\/p>\n

The report by Strider Technologies stated that between 1987 and 2021, an estimated 162 scientists from the New Mexico laboratory took part in a variety of Chinese research and development programs after leaving the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cFormer Los Alamos scientists have made, and continue to make, considerable contributions to the PRC hypersonic, missile and submarine programs that present an array of security risks for the United States and the entire free world,\u201d stated the 32-page report by Strider Technologies.<\/p>\n

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