GOP chair of nuclear safety agency secretly urges Trump to abolish it Center for Public Integrity | October 19, 2017
The chairman of a panel charged with protecting workers at nuclear weapons facilities as well as nearby communities has told the White House he favors downsizing or
abolishing the group, despite recent radiation and workplace safety problems that injured or endangered people at the sites it helps oversee.
Republican appointee Sean Sullivan, a former Navy submarine officer, told the director of the Office of Management and Budget in a private letter that closing or shrinking the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board he chairs is consistent with President Trump’s ambition to cut the size of the federal workforce, according to a copy of Sullivan’s letter.
STORAGE & DISPOSITIONMining operations to resume at
WIPP World Nuclear News | October 18, 2017
The mining of salt from the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico is expected to resume in the coming weeks. Mining of Panel 8 was halted in 2014 following separate fire and radiological events
that suspended waste emplacement operations at the facility.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGYDOE responds to Congressional Request on Decreasing Administrative
Waste ECA Staff | October 18, 2017
In February 2017, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Waldent (R-OR) sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) requesting information on stuies and/or efforts to identify and eliminate administrative waste within the agency.
DOE responded by identifying two recent Departmental undertakings directed to identifying const savings and efficiencies in business operations within the Department. The first was a 2013 study conducted by DOE Human Resorces analysing HR operational costs and
service delivery models. Second, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has engaged in identifying cost savings and efficiencies within its business operations to increase efficiency in the operations, management, and admistrative functions associated with a diverse array of national security missions.
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