Earlier this week, at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., I received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division in recognition of my leadership in the development and promotion of fuel cycle technologies and nuclear waste management missions in the United States. 

We had a great week in Vienna earlier this month at the IAEA Deep Borehole Disposal (DBD) Coordinated Research Project (CRP) annual meeting. Experts from nearly 20 countries,