Vol. 11, No. 75 Budget hearing on DOE this week features EnergySec testimony
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Advanced Nuclear & SMRs
Feasibility work ongoing at V.C. Summer ahead of $2.7B Investment
A South Carolina nuclear advisory panel heard Monday that various feasibility tasks are underway to help a state-owned electric utility decide whether a $2.7 billion investment will be made to complete two partially built nuclear reactors. The Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station has three units, with only one currently active. The other two were […]
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Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad
Report advises Air Force to rebuild strategic attack capacity
A wargame conducted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies suggested that a stand-in, penetrating force of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber for strategic attack were key to blunting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, a nonpartisan research organization in Washington, is advising the Air Force to buy […]
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Contracts & Procurement
EnergySolutions picks Drom to manage federal support biz
EnergySolutions said Monday on LinkedIn it has appointed a familiar face, Andrew Drom, as its new senior vice president for its Federal Support business unit. Although he just joined the Salt Lake City-based company April 6, this is Drom’s second tour of duty with EnergySolutions. He served in a couple of different international management positions […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Woman pleads guilty to stealing $54K of Savannah River Site pension money
A South Carolina woman pleaded guilty last week to stealing money from her deceased relative’s pension benefits earned from working at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. On April 9, the Department of Justice announced Effie Mae Youmans, 71, of Columbia, admitted to theft of public money by wrongly collecting someone else’s pension benefits. […]
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Budget & Policy
Kaptur announces largest DOE award for nuclear workforce training initiative
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), ranking member of the House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee, on April 8 unveiled a $19.2 million Department of Energy award to support a new nuclear safety training and workforce development program. Kaptur spoke of the initiative, led by the University of Toledo, during a visit to the Davis-Besse Nuclear […]