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NRC Meeting on the Nuclear Ship Savannah

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NRC staffers hold a meeting on board the Nuclear Ship Savannah, docked in Baltimore, to accept public comments on the vessel’s License Termination Plan. The hybrid session is the first time the NRC has conducted a public meeting aboard a seagoing vessel. As the Savannah nears the end of a multi-year decommissioning process, the U.S. Maritime Administration submitted the termination plan for NRC review. It spells out how the final steps will be carried out, including thorough checks for any residual radioactivity. The Savannah was defueled in 1971 and its reactor vessel removed at the end of 2022.

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NRC Meeting on the Nuclear Ship Savannah

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NRC staffers hold a meeting on board the Nuclear Ship Savannah, docked in Baltimore, to accept public comments on the vessel’s License Termination Plan. The hybrid session is the first time the NRC has conducted a public meeting aboard a seagoing vessel. As the Savannah nears the end of a multi-year decommissioning process, the U.S. Maritime Administration submitted the termination plan for NRC review. It spells out how the final steps will be carried out, including thorough checks for any residual radioactivity. The Savannah was defueled in 1971 and its reactor vessel removed at the end of 2022.

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New Cybersecurity Specialist

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Tim Marshall is a new cybersecurity specialist in our Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response. He duties include working with regulations, research projects, converting plant controls from analog to digital, and fuel cycle facilities.

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NRC School Supplies Drive

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NRC’s advisory committees representing Asian American, Pacific Islander and Hispanic employees collected 1,500 pencils, 800 pens, 225 highlighters plus headphones, scissors, pocket folders, rulers, glue sticks, crayons, protractors notebooks and more for Wheaton Woods Elementary School, near the agency’s HQ. The annual tradition stretches back some 10 years and is our way of making a small difference for local students.

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NRC Chair Hanson at Mayo Clinic

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Chair Hanson touring parts of the Mayo Clinic’s nuclear medicine and radiation oncology departments and some equipment used for treating cancer and other medical issues.

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NRC Commissioner Caputo in Canada

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NRC Commissioner Annie Caputo visiting sites important to Canada’s nuclear industry, including a trip to the McArthur River Mine. Located in northern Saskatchewan, it is one of the world’s largest high-grade uranium mines. The uranium from this mine is processed at the Key Lake Mill – which she also visited -- with the fuel supporting Canada’s nuclear power sector, which includes the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station – another stop on the itinerary. In this photo, they’re 2,000 feet underground in the McArthur River mine, in front of Cameco’s uranium mining equipment!

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RIC 2025 Design Concepts-Final

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Worldwide community of activists protest OverDrive and others forcing DRM upon libraries

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, November 28, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced its Defective by Design campaign's 17th annual International Day Against DRM (IDAD). It will protest uses of Digital Restrictions Management technology's hold over public libraries around the world, exemplified by corporations like OverDrive and Follett Destiny. IDAD will take place digitally and worldwide on December 8, 2023.




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EmacsConf joins Free Software Foundation fiscal sponsorship program

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, November 30, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that EmacsConf will join the Working Together for Free Software Fund. The one and only conference dedicated to the joy of Emacs is joining just before their event on December 2 and 3, 2023.




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US Federal employees and retirees: Contribute conveniently through the Combined Federal Campaign

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, December 4, 2023 -- The Free Software Foundation, today, highlighted its participation as a charity in the 2023 Combined Federal Campaign, which is focused on human rights this week.




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FSF job opportunity: Outreach and communications coordinator

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual, if possible Boston-based, to be our full-time outreach and communications coordinator.




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Hayley Tsukayama will speak about grassroots activism at LibrePlanet 2024




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Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- March 27, 2024 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced Alyssa Rosenzweig, who reverse-engineered Apple's current line of graphics processing units (GPU), as keynote speaker for LibrePlanet 2024. LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community is the sixteenth edition of the FSF's conference on ethical technology and user freedom and will be held on May 4 and 5 at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, as well as online.




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FSF to be deposed in SFC v Vizio, updates relevant FAQ entry




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Free Software Awards winners announced: Bruno Haible, code.gouv.fr, Nick Logozzo




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FSF adds three provisional board members




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FSF adds three highly qualified board members




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Let's not celebrate CrowdStrike -- let's point to a better way




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Thank you Odile Bénassy for four years of service on the FSF Board of Directors!

BOSTON (August 27, 2024) -- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Board Member Odile Bénassy has stepped down from the Board after four years of service.




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Free Software Foundation to serve on "artificial intelligence" safety consortium

BOSTON (October 8, 2024) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that it is taking part in the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s consortium on the safety of (so-called) artificial intelligence, particularly with reference to "generative" AI systems. The FSF will ensure the free software perspective is adequately represented in these discussions.




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FSF associate members to assist in review of current board members




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FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications

BOSTON (October 22, 2024) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced today that it is working on a statement of criteria for free machine learning applications, which will require the software, as well as the raw training data and associated scripts, to grant users the four freedoms.




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