Vol. 7, No. 43 DOE drops most COVID restrictions; masks still mandatory in risky locales
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
Zerkle to be No. 2 at Livermore
Longtime Los Alamos National Laboratory manager Carolyn Zerkle will become deputy director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory effective Sept. 12, the California nuclear-weapon design lab announced Monday. Zerkle spent more than 30 years at Los Alamos, most recently as senior director for project execution. In that job, she was responsible for the entire portfolio […]
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Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Judge rejects plea deal for ex-Naval Reactors employee who stole Virginia sub secrets; trial set
Three years in prison are too few for a former Naval Reactors employee who wanted to sell stolen nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign government, a federal judge said last week. Thursday’s pronouncement by Judge Gina Groh, a Barack Obama appointee in the U.S. District Court for West Virginia’s Northern District, blew up a government […]
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Decommissioning
One minor safety violation at Pilgrim decommissioning site, NRC says
An inspection at a former Massachusetts nuclear power plant under decommissioning by Holtec International revealed just one small issue related to radiation safety procedures, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told the company in a recent letter. Holtec staff working at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station “failed to survey the levels of airborne radioactivity” inside the plant’s drywell, […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Jacobs changing name of parent company
Jacobs, which swallowed CH2M Hill in 2017 to boost its presence in the Department of Energy contracting market, planned to rebrand itself as Jacobs Solutions effective Aug. 29, the Dallas-based company disclosed Friday. Presently known as Jacobs Engineering Group, the company told investors and regulators about the planned rebrand in an 8-k filing with the […]
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Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile
NNSA deputy general counsel stepping in as chief of staff
Lisa Daley Mangi will step in as the acting chief of staff for the National Nuclear Security Administration on Aug. 31, agency administration Jill Hruby said Monday. Daley Mangi, the current deputy general counsel for the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency, will stand in for Doug Fremont, who planned to retire. Fremont, a […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Special election to decide West Valley congressman until January
Voters in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which includes the West Valley Demonstration Project nuclear cleanup site, were to go to the polls Tuesday to decide who they want to fill the final months in the unexpired term of former Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.). Democratic Party candidate Max Della Pia goes up against Republican Joe […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
New HR head at BWXT
Robert Duffy took over as BWX Technologies’ top human resources and administrative executive, the company said Monday in a press release. Duffy, most recently with L3Harris Technologies, replaced Rick Loving as senior vice president and chief administrative officer, the Lynchburg, Va.-based nuclear-navy and Department of Energy contractor wrote in release, which was appended to an […]
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Interim Storage & Waste Disposal
Obituary: John Cowles, Yucca Mountain chief engineer (1934-2022)
John Cowles, who at the turn of the century was chief engineer for the nation’s only federally-authorized repository for high-level nuclear-power waste, passed away in his sleep July 22, according to an obituary published in The Boston Globe Thursday. He was 88 years old. Cowles, who began his nearly 40 years in the energy industry […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
Publication notice: Weapons Complex Morning Briefing
Weapons Complex Morning Briefing will be published on Tuesday and Thursday only during the weeks of Aug. 15, 2022 and Aug. 22, 2022, as part of the Exchange Monitor’s annual August recess.