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  • CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION

    Electricity Suppliers Have Taken Actions to Address Electromagnetic Risks, and Additional Research Is Ongoing

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    A severe GMD or HEMP event could potentially have significant impacts— including power outages—on the nation’s electric grid, which could affect other sectors that depend on electricity, such as communications. In response, NERC created two regulatory standards requiring certain U.S. and Canadian suppliers to assess their vulnerability to GMD and take appropriate steps in response... ... Leer más

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  • DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

    Continued Actions Needed to Modernize Nuclear Infrastructure and Address Management Challenges

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    DOE’s NNSA is responsible for managing the nuclear weapons stockpile and supporting nuclear nonproliferation efforts. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management’s mission includes decontaminating and decommissioning facilities that are contaminated from decades of nuclear weapons production... ... Leer más

    $377 MXN

  • GAS PIPELINE SAFETY

    Stakeholders’ and Officials’ Views on Federal Odorizing Requirements

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    The nation’s gas pipeline network moves about 74 billion cubic feet of combustible gas to homes and businesses daily. To alert the public of a gas leak before an explosion occurs, PHMSA has different requirements for odorizing gas. All gas transported by distribution pipelines throughout communities must be odorized. Gas transported across many miles by transmission pipelines is required to be ... Leer más

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  • DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

    Continued Actions Needed to Address Management Challenges

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    DOE’s NNSA is responsible for managing the nuclear weapons stockpile and supporting nuclear nonproliferation efforts. DOE’s Office of Environmental Management works to decontaminate and decommission facilities contaminated from decades of nuclear weapons production... ... Leer más

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  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS

    NNSA Should Adopt Additional Best Practices to Better Manage Risk for Life Extension Programs

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    Weapons in the U.S. nuclear stockpile are aging. NNSA and the Department of Defense undertake LEPs to refurbish or replace nuclear weapons’ aging components. Prior LEPs experienced cost overruns, schedule delays, and scope reductions, and prior GAO reports identified the need for NNSA to use EVM and conduct TRAs to address program risks. In 2013, NNSA developed a management approach for LEPs that ... Leer más

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  • HANFORD WASTE TREATMENT PLANT

    DOE Needs to Take Further Actions to Address Weaknesses in Its Quality Assurance Program

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    DOE and its contractor are building the WTP—which consists of multiple facilities—to treat a large portion of nuclear waste at Hanford. The project has faced persistent challenges, including quality assurance problems that have delayed it by decades and more than tripled its costs, to nearly $17 billion. DOE’s quality assurance framework aims to ensure that all problems are identified and do not ... Leer más

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  • DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

    New Process to Review Financial Assistance for Research Projects Created Uncertainty

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    ARPA-E provides funding for research to overcome long-term and high-risk technological barriers in developing energy technologies. Since 2009, ARPA-E has awarded approximately $1.3 billion to universities, public and private companies, and national laboratories to fund energy research projects. Starting in May 2017, DOE began reviewing its financial assistance department-wide, including ARPA-E’s, ... Leer más

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  • NUCLEAR WEAPONS

    NNSA Should Clarify Long-Term Uranium Enrichment Mission Needs and Improve Technology Cost Estimates

    de Hugues Dumont ...
    Series series GAO - DOE
    NNSA has several mission needs for enriched uranium, including providing LEU to fuel a nuclear reactor that produces tritium—a key isotope used in nuclear weapons. NNSA has a pressing defense need for unobligated LEU to fuel this reactor, meaning the uranium, technology and equipment used to produce the LEU, must be U.S. in origin. Because the United States lost its only source of unobligated LEU ... Leer más

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  • Common Sense Government

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