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Obama Picks Nuke Expert For DoE Deputy Secretary

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Thursday, April 16th, 2009

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By George Lobsenz In an appointment that injects high-level nuclear policy experience into the top levels of the Energy Department, President Barack Obama late Tuesday named Daniel Poneman, a principal at The Scowcraft Group and a former senior nonproliferation official in the Clinton administration, as his choice to be deputy secretary of the department. If confirmed by the Senate as the No. 2 official at DoE, Poneman will act as chief operating officer for all of the department's far-flung scientific…

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