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DNFSB’s Summers ends board tenure, extending agency’s loss of quorum
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, the independent agency responsible for ensuring that Department of Energy facilities are protective of public health and safety, announced that the board’s acting chairman, Thomas Summers, has concluded his service with the agency, having completed his second term as a board member on October 18.
Summers’ departure leaves Patricia Lee, who joined the DNFSB after being confirmed by the Senate in July 2024, as the board’s only remaining member and acting chair. Lee’s DNFSB board term ends in October 2027.
Howard A. Tewes
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 3 | September 1969 | Pages 232-242
Nuclear Explosive | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28604
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Project Cabriolet, a nuclear detonation in hard, dry (volcanic) rock, was executed as a part of the Plowshare Program for development of nuclear excavation techniques. The primary objectives of this experiment were: (a) to obtain experimental data on crater development and size in order to verify recently developed rock-mechanics computer codes and calculational techniques; and (b) to study the distribution of the radioactivity produced by the detonation in order to enhance the understanding of how the shot environment may affect this distribution. As was observed in the Danny Boy experiment, a relatively small amount of radioactivity was released to the environment from this detonation in hard, dry rock. Less than the equivalent of fission products from 10 tons of fission were distributed in both fallout and cloud from the Cabriolet experiment. As more data are reduced, a better description of the chemical fractionation associated with this released radioactivity will be possible.