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NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)

🚨NEW: @EMPublications has confirmed that Sam Brinton, deputy asst. secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at @GovNuclear, was charged Oct. 27 in Minnesota with felony theft. The charge carries a max sentence of 5yrs, $10k in fines. exchangemonitor.com/doe-spen…

A top story from this week's RadWaste Monitor: a Mass state senator whose gambit in a recently-passed spending bill to block proposed wastewater discharges from the shuttered Pilgrim nuke plant was blocked by Gov. Baker said she'd try to override the veto. exchangemonitor.com/sponsor-…

.@SecGranholm on the timeline of DOE’s interim storage effort, earlier: “It obviously has to be demonstrated — and it can be demonstrated — that the [host] community doesn’t have to worry about safety. Those conversations, and the education associated with that, takes some time.”

@SecGranholm to me just now: The federal government "has a role to play" in nuclear waste storage despite commercial efforts to do the same. Applauds Finland's "bottom-up" approach to siting their recently-finished geologic repository in Onkalo.

"I love the topic of nuclear waste management ... it is the definition of a wicked problem. It is a problem that isn’t going to be solved by a silver bullet ... It’s going to take time and effort." My full interview with @sbrinton: exchangemonitor.com/unlikely…

🚨EXCLUSIVE: I got to chat Thu. with @sbrinton, the newly-minted head of spent fuel at @GovNuclear, in one of their first media appearances since taking on the role. We talked about how DOE is defining consent in its interim storage search. Full convo TK. exchangemonitor.com/search-f…

🚨NEW: A judge in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during oral arguments Mon. that she did not see how the agency could claim "this overarching de novo authority" to license private interim storage, according to an audio recording. #txpol

🚨 IT'S A DATE: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday officially scheduled oral arguments in Texas AG Ken Paxton's suit against @NRCgov for Aug. 29. It'll be the first in-person legal test of interim storage opponents' arguments, including Paxton's recent SCOTUS invocation.