The Office of Global Material Security will be headed up by Assistant Deputy Administrator Art Atkins and will include international nuclear security, radiological security and nuclear smuggling detection and deterrence, while Assistant Deputy Administrator Pete Hanlon will head up the Office of Material Management and Minimization. Hanlon previously headed up the Office of Fissile Materials Disposition, but the new office will include nonproliferation construction/program analysis, conversion, nuclear material removal, and material disposition. Rhys Williams will remain the assistant deputy administrator for Nonproliferation Research & Development, while Kasia Mendelsohn will be the assistant deputy administrator for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, the program’s policy arm.
NNSA Moving Forward With Reorganization of Office of Nonproliferation
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation is moving forward with a reorganization that would consolidate its sub-programs into four offices to reduce overlap between the programs and better align its efforts, NNSA nonproliferation chief Anne Harrington said at an all-hands meeting yesterday. Under the reorganization, the program’s work would be broken up into four offices: an Office of Global Material Security, an Office of Material Management and Minimization, an Office of DNN Research and Development, and an Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control. “By organizing DNN functionally and creating synergy among like sub-programs, the DNN management team is confident that the realignment will better position DNN to meet current, enduring, and evolving threats, and allow DNN to allocate resources more effectively to address the full spectrum of nuclear security challenges,” Harrington said in a Dec. 1 message to employees obtained by NS&D Monitor. Harrington said she has been asked NNSA Administrator Frank Klotz to implement the reorganization by Jan. 1.
NNSA removes high-risk cesium from Vermont
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has removed all high-risk cesium-137 from Vermont, making it the 15th U.S. state or territory declared free of high-risk quantities of the radioactive material. This follows a July operation in which a team from Idaho National Laboratory removed a self-shielded cesium irradiator from the University of Vermont in Burlington […]