VIEW VIDEOCAST NOW LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 17, 2023–A modern-day successor to J. Robert Oppenheimer took an active role last year in urging the Department of Energy to nullify a 70-year-old government decision that revoked the atomic bomb inventor’s security clearance. Dr. Thom Mason, current Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New…
Sean McGarvey, one of America’s most influential union leaders paused to take stock of the contributions of the labor movement through a pandemic.
WASHINGTON, D.C. This Labor Day, one of America’s most recognized and influential union leaders paused to take stock of the contributions of the labor movement and thank the millions of craft workers whose skill and dedication saw the country through a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic. Sean McGarvey, NABTU President appears on the Gone Fission Nuclear Podcast….
New Regulatory Center Helps Manage Complex Cleanup Issues
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |Contact: Michael Butler | (704) 779-1844 | gonefissionpodcast.com Monday, June 13, 2022 | New Regulatory Center Helps Manage Complex Cleanup Issues | This week’s (June 13, 2022) episode of the Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast covers the new Regulatory Center of Excellence established recently at Savannah River National Laboratory (SREL) as an…
Proper Deactivation is Key to Demolition Success
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |Contact: Michael Butler | (704) 779-1844 | gonefissionpodcast.com Monday, March 28, 2022 | Cold and dark doesn’t sound very inviting, but it’s the ideal state when the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management group prepares to demolish an aging, unused nuclear structure. It’s called deactivation. In this week’s (March 28) episode of the…
Some Low-Profile Sites Remain on DOE’s Cleanup List
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |Contact: Michael Butler | (704) 779-1844 | gonefissionpodcast.com Monday, March 21, 2022 | With the recent completion of cleanup at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, the map of remaining Department of Energy (DOE) sites requiring remediation has shrunk to fifteen. This is a dramatic decrease from the 107 sites that were…
DOE Facility Offers Training “As Real As it Gets”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |Contact: Michael Butler | (704) 779-1844 Monday, February 28, 2022 RICHLAND, Washington – Imagine a training exercise where you have to follow clues, complete a series of specialized tasks, and “escape” from an enclosed room before your air supply runs out. It’s just one of many real-life scenarios students confront at…