On Aug. 7, NNSA celebrated the opening of Sandia National Laboratories’ new Emergency Operations Center. The 25,359 square foot center will house NNSA and Sandia emergency management staff offices, the 24/7 Emergency Management Communications Center, dedicated incident management and coordination space and multipurpose training rooms, among other functions. The Emergency Operations Center, activated during an [...]
The new AMS helicopters are currently being manufactured at the Leonardo Helicopter assembly plant in Philadelphia. Tilden, who has spearheaded the aircraft recapitalization program, recently toured the facility to observe the manufacturing process as the two helicopters move through the final stages of assembly. Accompanied by other senior NEST leaders, Tilden thanked the Leonardo workforce [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the former Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, Missouri with a Federal Facility Excellence in Site Reuse Award. These awards highlight the accomplishments of federal agencies, Tribes, local partners, and developers in restoring and reusing contaminated land at federal facilities. “Receiving the EPA award for Federal Facility Excellence [...]
At the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), Rose met with President Dr. Joo Han Gyu and expressed appreciation for recent meetings with NNSA and KAERI’s strong support for collaborating on proliferation-resistance optimization. KAERI also provided a tour of their research reactor fuel facility. Rose also met with Cho Sunhak, Director General for Space and [...]
The agency has extensive ties to Georgia and has worked in the country for more than 20 years on nuclear security topics and nonproliferation, including protection and removal of radioactive sources, radiation and nuclear detection, nuclear forensics, and the use of a decommissioned research reactor and hot cell facility to train International Atomic Energy Agency [...]
Speaking to the topic at hand, she cited the 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, which states, “The United States continues to observe a moratorium on nuclear explosive testing and calls on all states possessing nuclear weapons to declare or maintain such a moratorium.” Hinderstein cited examples of U.S. transparency in nuclear nonproliferation in support of the [...]
Tell us a little about finding your identity as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. How do you feel your experience has changed with time? Finding my identity within the LGBTQ+ community has been a long an ongoing path that I’ve walked, stumbled, and run down for nearly 15 years. I started questioning my sexuality [...]
Tell us a little about finding your identity as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. How do you feel your experience has changed with time?I began to identify with the LGBTQ+ community in college, maybe high school (but didn’t quite understand it until college). It was a challenging time because I wasn’t sure how my [...]
Why do you think diversity and inclusion is important to your profession? When we are openly supported by the workplace, diversity brings flair and perspective to otherwise homogeneous ways of thinking and connecting with foreign counterparts. Tell us something interesting about yourself; what do you like to do for fun/downtime? I enjoy learning languages, I [...]
How do you support NNSA? I currently serve as the Nuclear Security Attache to the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna. In that role I support NNSA and the entire U.S. Government in executing its nuclear security goals and priorities at the International Atomic Energy Agency. This includes promoting global efforts to strengthen nuclear [...]
