Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman, who is currently the acting Energy Secretary while Obama Administration nominee Ernest Moniz awaits confirmation by the Senate, will appear before the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee next week. Poneman will address DOE’s broad budgetary portfolio at 2:30 p.m. May 15 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The subcommittee had hoped to have Moniz testify about the Administration’s budget request, but his confirmation remains subject to a hold by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) over funding for the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility.
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 🔓