The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing in early April to consider the Obama Administration’s nomination of Ernest Moniz as the next Secretary of Energy. The hearing is set to be held on April 9 beginning at 10 a.m. Moniz is currently a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as director of the MIT Energy Initiative and director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at the MIT Department of Physics. He would replace Steven Chu, who has his intent to not serve as Secretary of Energy in President Obama’s second term, though Chu did say he would stay on at DOE until a successor is confirmed.
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 🔓