Three senior members of the House Armed Services Committee will begin a visit to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s two nuclear weapons laboratories in New Mexico today. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the chairman of the panel’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee, is heading the visit, and will be accompanied by Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), the ranking member of the subcommittee, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), a member of the subcommittee. The trio will visit Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories as well as Kirtland Air Force Base, the home of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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 🔓