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August 29, 2014

Held Returns to DOE After Summer Vacation

By Mike Nartker

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WC Monitor
8/29/2014

After a two-and-a-half-month summer vacation, former acting National Nuclear Security Administration chief Bruce Held returned this week to the Department of Energy. Held’s title will apparently remain the same—associate deputy secretary—but his duties have not been fully defined. “Governance issues have long been my central concern so I hope to be involved in those,” Held said in an email response to questions.

Held, whose earlier career was as a clandestine operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, spent nearly a year as acting administrator of the NNSA prior to Frank Klotz’s nomination and confirmation. He previously served as DOE’s director of intelligence and counterintelligence. He said his return to the federal agency was fueled by his and his wife’s admiration for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. “So, we are happy to help in any way he finds useful,” he said.

He returns at a pivotal time for DOE—a time when he may be counted on to take an important leadership role with Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman leaving. Poneman announced this summer that he was leaving DOE in the fall, and there is no guarantee that his White House-nominated successor, Liz Sherwood-Randall, will be confirmed by the Senate in time to take his place. Held would be among a handful of likely candidates to serve as an acting deputy secretary until Sherwood-Randall is confirmed. 

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Nuclear Security & Deterrence Vol. 18 No. 33
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August 29, 2014

Held Returns to DOE After Summer Vacation

By Brian Bradley

Staff Reports
NS&D Monitor
8/29/2014

After a two-and-a-half-month summer vacation, former acting National Nuclear Security Administration chief Bruce Held returned this week to the Department of Energy. Held’s title will apparently remain the same—associate deputy secretary—but his duties have not been fully defined. “Governance issues have long been my central concern so I hope to be involved in those,” Held said in an email response to questions.

Held, whose earlier career was as a clandestine operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, spent nearly a year as acting administrator of the NNSA prior to Frank Klotz’s nomination and confirmation. He previously served as DOE’s director of intelligence and counterintelligence. He said his return to the federal agency was fueled by his and his wife’s admiration for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. “So, we are happy to help in any way he finds useful,” he said.

He returns at a pivotal time for DOE—a time when he may be counted on to take an important leadership role with Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman leaving. Poneman announced this summer that he was leaving DOE in the fall, and there is no guarantee that his White House-nominated successor, Liz Sherwood-Randall, will be confirmed by the Senate in time to take his place. Held would be among a handful of likely candidates to serve as an acting deputy secretary until Sherwood-Randall is confirmed.

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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

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