Teresa Robbins replaced Geoff Beausoleil as manager of the National Nuclear Security Administration field office responsible for the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Site, according to the government’s nuclear health-and-safety watchdog.
Robbins, one of Beausoleil’s two deputies at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Production Office, was set to take over May 1. Beausoleil announced his retirement in November, declaring in a letter to colleagues that “the length of runway behind [me] is quite long and that which is in front of [me] shorter.”
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board mentioned Robbins’ promotion in the independent federal agency’s latest report on Department of Energy activity in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Robbins had been a deputy at the production office since 2014. She’s been at the Y-12 site for more than 20 years now. Before that, she worked at the now-shuttered Rocky Flats site in Colorado.