He led a comprehensive review of our nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship program, enhanced the scienceandtechnology of environmental cleanup, and was the DOE special negotiator for Russia initiatives, focusing on disposal of Soviet-era nuclear materials.
The Daily Yomiuri continued to follow the government's moves to investigate the accident with a story about how Japan's ScienceandTechnology Agency plans to exactly re-create the nuclear fission chain reactions that occurred at the plant--presumably under safer conditions.