Amid the furor over last weekend’s security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex, bidders for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s combined Oak Ridge/Y-12/Pantex protective force contract will submit bids by Friday’s 12 PM Mountain Time deadline. Among the expected bidders: a team of Oak Ridge pro force incumbent WSI and Y-12 and Pantex incumbent Babcock & Wilcox. Also this week:
- U.S. Strategic Command is holding its annual Deterrence Symposium in the suburbs of Omaha Wednesday and Thursday. The limited-access event in LaVista, Neb., will include remarks from Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), StratCom chief Gen. Robert Kehler as well as Pentagon officials Madelyn Creedon and Bradley Roberts in addition to dozens of other panelists.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a meeting today in Aiken, S.C., starting at 1 p.m. to discuss waste disposal at the Savannah River Site.
- USEC CEO John Welch and Senior Vice President and General Counsel Peter Saba will host an on-the-record lunch with reporters today to discuss recent developments with the company.
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
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓