Outgoing New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn says he’s going to have a late-morning coffee and a midafternoon beer after his three-and-a-half-year tenure in Gov. Susana Martinez’s (R) Cabinet officially ends on Aug. 12.
There’s a nap planned, too,…
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'Equipment Issue' Means More Waste-Disposal Dress Rehearsals at WIPP
Already months behind schedule, dress rehearsal waste-disposal operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., have been extended another two weeks due to unspecified equipment issues, an executive…
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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 🔓