The chief operating officer for the Amentum-led cleanup contractor at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, Tom Dieter, will retire March 31 and be succeeded by critical projects director Kent Fortenberry, the contractor said Thursday.
“We are grateful for [Dieter’s] leadership in the company maintaining a strong safety performance in our first year,” said United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR) President and CEO Ken Rueter in a press release.
Dieter has more than 30 years of management experience around the DOE nuclear weapons complex, according to his online bio. He was formerly CEO of the cleanup project at the Idaho National Laboratory for CH2M, which is now a subsidiary of Jacobs and a partner in UCOR. Honeywell is also a partner in UCOR.
Fortenberry will become chief operations officer after logging about four decades in operation and cleanup of both government and commercial nuclear facilities, UCOR said in the release.
NEW: Via public records request, I’ve been able to confirm reporting today that a warrant has been issued for DOE deputy asst. secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition Sam Brinton for another luggage theft, this time at Las Vegas’s Harry Reid airport. (cc: @EMPublications)
DOE spent fuel lead Brinton accused of second luggage theft.
by @BenjaminSWeiss, confirming today's reports with warrant from Las Vegas Metro PD.
Waste has been Emplaced! 🚮
We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.
Read more about the waste emplacement here: https://wipp.energy.gov/wipp_news_20221123-2.asp
Editorial: Sam Brinton’s credibility is now an issue 🔓