Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed key seismic upgrades to the lab’s Technical Area 55 Plutonium Facility, NNSA Defense Programs chief Don Cook notified the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Monday. Repairs completed to date, primarily a new roof strut intended to protect against building collapse in a major earthquake, have reduced the worst-case off site dose to 143 rems in a once-in-2,000 years earthquake, still above the Department of Energy’s 25 rem guideline. But additional steps to be completed between now and April will push the worst-case dose to lower than 25 rem, Cook wrote.
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 🔓