The Senate is expected to begin debate on the Fiscal Year 2012 Energy and Water Act as early as Thursday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday that he plans to bring the measure to the Senate floor by scheduling a cloture vote Thursday that would allow the chamber to take up the bill as part of a second “minibus” appropriations bill that would also include the Financial Services and State Department-Foreign Operations bills. The Senate is not expected to complete its work on the bill before the Nov. 18 expiration of a Continuing Resolution that is funding the Department of Energy, the NNSA and other federal agencies in lieu of completed appropriations bill, and a second CR is expected to be attached to a first “minibus” bill that is currently being negotiated between the House and Senate.
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 🔓