National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Jill Hruby spent some time at the Nevada National Security Site this week, according to a series of posts on official agency Twitter accounts.
Hruby visited the site along with members of the NNSA Council, which includes representatives of several nuclear-weapon sites.
The NNSA said this week it had removed plutonium from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Office of Safeguards Analytical Services Nuclear Material Laboratory in Siebersdorf, Austria, to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The plutonium is residue from 15 years of the U.N. atomic energy agency’s safeguards inspection, the NNSA said in a press release.
The Senate this week confirmed Eliot Kang to be assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation. Kang, who has served multiple stints in the State Department since 2009, has been doing the job in an acting capacity since January 2021.
Kang’s nomination had been caught up in partisan gridlock in the Senate.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Rep. Brad Wenstrup (D-Ohio) led a letter-writing campaign calling on the Joe Biden administration to invest in domestic sources of advanced nuclear fuels, including high assay low-enriched uranium that could be developed using a new Centrus Corp. centrifuge cascade at the Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio.
The lawmakers and several of their colleagues posted their letter to Biden online in a press release this week.
A project engineer at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., saved a stranger from a cold lake after the strangers truck ran off the road on a wintery day, the site said this week.
“It was the coldest I have ever been,” Brody Roberts said.
