The Obama Administration is expected to release details of its Fiscal Year 2015 budget request early this week after issuing top line numbers last week. The budget details could be released as soon as today or tomorrow, providing more insight into the Administration’s budget plans for the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and other government agencies. For the NNSA, the Administration requested $8.3 billion for its weapons program and $1.6 billion for its nonproliferation account, making the most waves with a decision to put the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility project into “cold standby.” The Administration requested $5.6 billion for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management in FY 2015.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓