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Nuclear Modernization

DNFSB Member Connery Slams Reorg

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018

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DNFSB Member Connery Slams Reorg

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

The lone member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) to oppose its recently announced reorganization slammed the plan in comments made public this week.In a record of votes taken Aug. 13-14, Joyce Connery — who chaired the independent watchdog of Energy Department nuclear operations during the latter half of the Obama administration — characterized the proposal to cut the DNFSB’s full-time staff from 100 to 79 as an overreach by acting Chairman Bruce Hamilton."Any significant attempt at diminution of…

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