Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm was to lead the U.S. delegation to the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency’s 65th General Conference, the formalities of which were scheduled to begin Monday with an opening plenary session.
Granholm and her entourage will arrive in Vienna, Austria, only days after the U.S. announced that it and the United Kingdom would help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines for the latter’s Royal Navy.
“Secretary Granholm will deliver the U.S. national statement underscoring the use of nuclear to combat climate change, advance medical treatments, and the critical importance of continued cooperation and collaboration to enhance nuclear safeguards, security, and innovation to successfully achieve our common goals,” the Department of Energy wrote in a press release.
George Miller, director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2006 to 2011, received the lab’s John S. Foster medal, the California-based nuclear-weapons-design lab announced this week in a press release.
The medal, which comes with a cash award, is reserved for anyone “who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in science, technology, and engineering or policy formulation in support of U.S. nuclear security,” according to the lab. It is named for former Livermore director John Foster, who would be 99 on Sept. 18, according to a short biography published in 2019.
The Sandia National Laboratories successfully tested payloads that could aid future non-nuclear, nuclear-weapons tests and weapon designs aboard a suborbital rocket launched Sept. 11 from a NASA-controlled range in eastern Virginia, the labs network wrote in a press release.
It was the fourth mission overall for Sandia’s High Operational Tempo Shot, or HOT Shot program.
Former National Nuclear Security Administration No. 2 Madelyn Creedon joined the board of director at the National Defense University Foundation, the institution said in a press release.
Creedon was one of three women who joined the board as the foundation “continues its transformation and revitalizes its mission to support to the post-graduate education and leadership development of strategic-defense” at the Pentagon-funded National Defense University in Washington, according to the release.
