Career foreign service officer Robert Wood was nominated late last week to serve as the United States’ Representative to the Conference on Department. Wood has been serving as the top U.S. official at the CD in an acting capacity, and the Friday nomination would make him the permanent representative, with the rank of ambassador. Wood had been serving in a dual capacity as the Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. He was the State Department’s deputy spokesman from 2008 to 2010.
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 🔓