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December 01, 2023

Round up: Staff departure on Senate ENR; New gig for Pilgrim citizens panel member; Russian nuclear ship dismantled; more

By ExchangeMonitor

Sarah Stevenson, a staffer on the Senate energy and Natural Resources Committee, is leaving Congress for a job with the Air Force, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Thursday during a committee hearing. 

Stevenson, an American Nuclear Society congressional fellow, spent her time on the committee, roughly a year, “educating people concerning what nuclear has done, what it will do and what it can do,” Manchin said at the top of the hearing. 

Stevenson has a PhD and a masters degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She helped draft the Nuclear Fuel Security Act, which would ban imports of Russian uranium within 90 days of the bill’s passage. The Senate added the language of the bill to its version of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Members of the House and Senate this week began negotiations intended to produce a unified version of the NDAA.

 

Jonathan Goldberg, a member of a citizens board overseeing Holtec International’s demolition of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, left the state government, according to his LinkedIn profile. 

As of November, Goldberg’s LinkedIn page now lists him as a senior legal counsel at the Boston-based firm Keegan Werlin. From August 2020 to November 2023, he had been the general counsel and chief legal counsel and director of legal operations at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. 

 

Russia has dismantled the Lepse, a nuclear-powered, Cold War-era ship that serviced the Soviet Union’s icebreaker fleet, Rosatom, the Russian nuclear agency, said this week in a statement posted to its website. 

Dismantlement took about 10 years, according to Rosatom. The Lepse’s reactor was placed in storage at the Sayda-Guba reactor compartment storage facility in arctic eastern Russia near the border with Finland, the agency wrote. It will take until 2028 to remove all the spent nuclear fuel from the ship’s reactor core and prepare it for storage, Rosatom said.

 

Joseph Lafleur, a former employee of the Atomic Energy Commission and later the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, died Nov. 13 in Gaithersburg, Md., according to an obituary posted online. He was 93.

A West Point graduate, Lafleur served with the Army Corps of Engineers in Korea before joining the Atomic Energy Commission. He had roles with projects including the Army Package Power Reactor 1 in Alaska and the Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power program, which eventually put a nuclear reactor in orbit, according to the obituary.

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