A House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s B61 refurbishment program scheduled for today has been postponed because of the government shutdown. Lawmakers had hoped to avoid postponing the hearing but complications due to the continuing shutdown made pushing back the hearing unavoidable. Strategic Command chief Gen. Robert Kehler, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs Madelyn Creedon, NNSA weapons program chief Don Cook, and Sandia National Laboratories Deputy Laboratories Director and Executive Vice President for National Security Programs Jerry McDowell had been expected to testify at the hearing. There is no makeup date yet for the hearing.
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 🔓