DOE Lyons To Leave Department

Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy Peter Lyons will step down from his position at the end of June, according to an internal memo from Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz yesterday. Lyons has served in his current role since 2011 and contributed widely to the Administration’s current waste management strategy involving consent-based siting of an interim storage facility. “It is with sincere gratitude that we announce that after 46 years of service to the government and national laboratory system, Assistant Secretary Pete Lyons will retire at the end of June,” Moniz said in the memo. “Pete has been a tremendous public servant throughout his stellar career, and all who have had the privilege of working with and getting to know him through these decades understand that he has been not only a dedicated and accomplished scientist and leader of the highest order, but also one of the most decent and kind individuals one will meet in government service.  We will miss him.” According to Moniz, current Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary John Kotek will serve as the acting Assistant Secretary following Lyons departure.