John (Jay) Mullis, who recently retired as head of the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management office at the Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, didn’t stay idle long — he announced in a weekend LinkedIn post he has agreed to become chief nuclear officer for United Cleanup Oak Ridge.
“I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Nuclear Officer at UCOR!” Mullis said in the Saturday post. United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) is a joint venture of Amentum and Honeywell with a contract to perform nuclear remediation at the site, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex.
Mullis last month retired from the federal government after spending more than 30 years with DOE, including serving as manager of the Office of Environmental Management field office in Oak Ridge since November 2017.
