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‘Unlikely allies’ in nuclear waste management: 20 minutes with Sam Brinton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition, Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy
A lot of people say that they eat, sleep and breathe their passions, but there are few who would identify more with that adage than Sam Brinton, newly-minted Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy.  “My husband is a painter, and half of the paintings in our home have something to do with nuclear waste, because all I do is talk about this issue,” Brinton told RadWaste Monitor in an exclusive video interview Thursday, in their fourth month on the job.  As the new steward of federal nuclear waste policy, Brinton, 34, who identifies as genderfluid and uses ‘they,’ ‘them,’ and ‘theirs’ as…		 Upcoming Events

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GAO seeks 3rd party review of DOE cleanup’s end state contract model
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management should bring in an outside entity to gauge the effectiveness of the overhauled procurement strategy implemented in 2019 to improve its multi-billion-dollar nuclear cleanup operation, the Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. The…
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Potential 5-year extension inked for SRS’s Fluor-led prime; security provider deal next
As expected, the Department of Energy has signed a potential five-year, multibillion-dollar extension with the Fluor-led management and operations manager for the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, the company said late Thursday.  The extension could keep Savannah River Nuclear…
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DOE nuclear waste, energy programs tread water in stopgap budget to start fiscal year 2023
The House approved this week a temporary budget bill for fiscal year 2023, setting up most Department of Energy nuclear waste programs to continue operating at their 2022 budgets through Dec. 16. For the first two-and-a-half months of fiscal year…
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COVID-19 created more than a year’s worth of delays for pit production at Los Alamos, lab said
Due primarily to COVID-19, Los Alamos National  Laboratory believed it could take a year longer than expected for the the lab to casting 10 plutonium pits annually in New Mexico, according to an internal document. A redacted copy of the…
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