Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm led a large Department of Energy delegation to the UN International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 66th general conference in Vienna, Austria this week. Senior officials from the DOE and its semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) attended.
In a speech during the plenary session, Granholm said the U.S. is “working closely with the IAEA to ensure that the AUKUS partnership among Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States meets the highest nonproliferation standard.” Announced in September 2021, AUKUS is an effort to transfer nuclear submarine-propulsion technology to Australia.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said this week it awarded $14 million for materials research at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
The total, which NNSA will award over five years, will help “establish and manage the Material Data Science for Stockpile Stewardship Center of Excellence,” the agency wrote in a press release.
BWX Technologies appointed Michael Fitzgerald as its vice president of finance, effective October 24 and as chief accounting officer, effective the day following the filing of the 10-Q filing for the quarter that ends September 30, according to a filing this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fitzgerald will replace Jason Kerr as vice president and chief accounting officer, whose last day in that role will be September 30, according to the filing. Also effective on September 30, 2022, Kevin Gorman will become BWX Technologies’ corporate controller and interim chief accounting officer until the company files its next 10-Q.
Donald Ross, a Manhattan Project chemist who visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine a few years after its disastrous core meltdown in 1986, died Sept. 4, according to an obituary posted online.
Ross retired from the Department of Energy in 1989 as chief of the agency’s Occupational Safety Branch. He was born in 1923, according to the obituary, which did not specify his birthday.
