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NRC’s New Chairman Urged to Heed Agency’s Climate Policy Role
Christopher Hanson, a nuclear energy government and industry veteran, has taken the helm of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The designation by President Joe Biden on Jan. 23 may provide a boost to the administration’s climate initiatives, experts told
POWER.
Hanson, a Democrat, is expected to fill the role for remainder of his five-year term as an NRC commissioner that started in June 2020 and will end in June 2024. He replaces Republican Kristine Svinicki, who departed the NRC on Jan. 20. Serving as chairman since 2017, Svinicki was the longest serving member of the commission in the agency’s history, the NRC noted on Saturday.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden designated Christopher Hanson, currently a commissioner on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as the agency’s new chairman, effective immediately.
The Straits Times
Democrat Christopher Hanson is new chairman of US nuclear regulator
Christopher Hanson has been a Democratic commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission since June 2020.PHOTO: NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
PublishedJan 25, 2021, 5:00 am SGT
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Ballard Performing Arts Collage Concert presents a musical virtual smorgasbord of nonstop talent
Make it dinner and a show with a Tom Douglas Dinner Box to go
Thu, 01/14/2021
The Ballard High School music program has been busy recording and mixing a virtual concert that showcases over a dozen ensembles in a wide variety of styles and that promises to offer a little something for everyone. The free performance airs online Friday, January 22 at 7 p.m.
“It will be a nonstop evening featuring an incredible range of performances from our music ensembles,“ says Courtney Rowley, director of choirs.
Enjoy dinner and a show Those wishing to enjoy a restaurant meal with the concert can purchase a takeout dinner box ($55, serves 2) from Tom Douglas Restaurants, and a portion of proceeds benefits the performing arts program at Ballard High School. The restaurant partnership has been a popular element of Ballard High School virtual performances since its inception last fall with t
Newburgh, N.Y.: Onetime Jewel of the Hudson River
As many New Yorkers discovered during the pandemic, this Orange County city doesn’t just have good bones, it is magnificent and still fairly affordable.
By Julie Lasky
Dec. 16, 2020
Eight years before she moved up to Newburgh, Cher Vickers started a blog called Newburgh Restoration. Writing from the Bronx and then Amityville, N.Y., she sang the praises of this city of 28,000 in Orange County that not so long ago was called the “murder capital of New York.” Many of the posts featured luscious Victorian houses some intact, others not so much each a representative of the state’s largest historic district outside of New York City.