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September 15, 2022

Round Up: Anti-nukers sue for full performance evals; Hecker’s think-tank post; Lillian Johns, Calutron Girl; more

By ExchangeMonitor

In a new lawsuit, the anti-nuclear group Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Santa Fe, demanded that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) turn over “full and complete Performance Evaluation Reports” for the contractors managing the agency’s nuclear-weapon sites. 

The group, which has tried the tactic before, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for New Mexico. Nuke Watch posted its full complaint and a press release summarizing it online.

 

Former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker was appointed a distinguished professor of practice at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif., the think tank said in a press release.

Hecker ran Los Alamos from 1986 to 1997.

 

Lillian Johns, one of the original Calutron girls who worked at what is now known as the Y-12 National Security, died Sept. 8, according to an obituary posted in the local Knox News website. She was 96.

During the Manhattan Project, young women dubbed Calutron girls minded monitored mass spectrometers called Calutrons that were used in the refining or uranium for early nuclear weapons, including the Little Boy bomb that destroyed Hiroshima Japan on Aug. 6, 1945.

 

Jennifer Stewart, former Republican staff director of the House Armed Services Committee and former chief of staff to then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper planned to join a defense industry lobbying group, according to a press release from the group.

Stewart will be the executive vice president for strategy and policy for the National Defense Industrial Association in Arlington, Va., effective September 26th, the Arlington, Virginia-based defense association announced September 12.

 

The U.S. Mission to the U.N. marked the 17th anniversary this week of Washington’s signing of the International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, which is aimed at preventing nuclear and radiological terrorism.

The mission observed the milestone in a tweet.

 

The U.S. mission to the U.N. also implored Iran this week to inform the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency “about the current location of detected nuclear material and/or contaminated equipment.”

In a statement, the Vienna mission wrote “the power to resolve these issues is in Iran’s hands. 

 

Centrus Energy Corp. chief executive officer Daniel Poneman on Sept. 8 belatedly received the Order of the Rising Sun honor that the Japanese government awarded to him in spring 2020. The ceremony was delayed two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Centrus said in a press release.

Japan recognize Poneman for “his contributions towards enhancing the relationship between Japan and the United States of America in the energy sector,” according to a 2020 press release from the Japanese embassy. The announcement specifically cited Poneman’s work as co-chair of the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation in 2012, and his promotion of U.S. liquified natural gas exports to Japan.

 

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