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Brouillette Sails Through Energy Secretary Confirmation Hearing Amid Some Plutonium, Impeachment Talk
WASHINGTON — Dan Brouillette, who a few years ago was lobbying for the insurance industry and now is on track to join President Donald Trump’s Cabinet as secretary of energy, cruised Thursday morning through a Senate nomination hearing that briefly crossed wires with presidential impeachment proceedings in the House. With approval from the Senate, Brouillette would be elevated from his current job as deputy energy secretary to the top spot at the Department of Energy. Brouillette’s boss, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has drawn scrutiny from the House Intelligence Committee for helping to facilitate a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.  During the call, informed current and…
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Bechtel Lags on Hanford Subcontractor Audits, Energy Dept. IG Finds
Bechtel National has failed to sufficiently review the costs of subcontractors supporting construction of the $17 billion Waste Treatment Plant at the U.S. Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, according to a recent agency audit. Between December 2000 and…
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Waste Shipment Deal Between Idaho, DOE Won’t Be Executed Quickly
It could be well into 2020 before the U.S. Department of Energy can begin shipping spent fuel from the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois to DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory. Likewise, it will probably take years before all the lab…
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DOE Not Authorized to Contract for Spent Fuel Storage, Perry Says
The U.S. Department of Energy has “no authority” under federal law to issue contracts for any commercially operated facility for temporary storage of spent nuclear fuel, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a recent letter to a member of Congress.…
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House Committee Seeks DOE, Centrus Communications in Probe of New Enrichment Cascade Contract
Senior members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee this week requested communications between the Department of Energy and Centrus Energy Corp. as part of a bipartisan probe into the award of a sole-source $115 million uranium-enrichment contract. In…
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