Reactor Licensing & Regulation

Round up: New head of NRC investigations; tritium near the Mississippi; German waste repository search

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Thomas Ashley will take over as the permanent director of the office of investigations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 30, the agency announced this week. 
Ashley had been the acting director of the office since February, when Tracy Higgs, the previous…

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