Transuranic Waste

Wrap Up: AECOM Executive McQuinn to Retire

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Bob McQuinn, an AECOM senior executive who, among other things, led the prime contractor team for the Energy Department’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), for about a year following a 2014 accident, has announced he will retire at the end of August.
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