Naval nuclear reactor manufacturer BWX Technologies appointed Mike Boorstein as the new general manager for its Nuclear Operations Group-Euclid manufacturing facility.
In this role, Boorstein will be responsible for BWX’s daily operations at the site, which employs more than 350 workers and manufactures electro-mechanical components for naval nuclear reactors used in submarines and aircraft carriers.
Boorstein retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2015, then held leadership positions with Alcoa, now known as Arconic. In 2020 he became general manager at the Amazon Robotic Sortable Fulfillment Center in Akron, Ohio.
The Nevada National Security Site needs a new, 250,000-gallon water storage tank, on a steel-reinforced concrete slab, to serve an existing fire suppression system at its Device Assembly Facility (DAF).
Mission Support and Test Services, which manages the site on behalf of the National Nuclear Security Administration wants to farm out the design, fabrication, and installation of the ground-supported flat-bottom water tank for “to a specialized firm,” according to a notice on the federal government’s contracting website.
The work will include design and installation of the water tank, steel reinforced concrete tank foundation, water level sensors, temperature sensors, lightning protection, cathodic protection from corrosion, and water piping and accessories. Responses are due Nov. 22.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is pondering a change in the transport of tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBAR) by storing them onsite until a shipping container is full instead of shipping each batch of irradiated TPBAR as soon as it is ready.
“In order to save shipping cost associated with sending partially filled TPBAR canisters to the processing facility, consideration is now being given to storing any partially filled TPBAR canister … until the next refueling outage when it can be filled to its limit and then shipped to the processing facility.”
TPBAR are irradiated in the two Watts Barr reactors then shipped to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina so tritium can be harvested for use in nuclear weapons.
Maj. Gen. Roland Lajoie, who completed two combat tours in Vietnam before serving on the frontlines of the Cold War, died Oct. 28 in Manchester, N.H., at the age of 87. His obituary and online profiles of his multifaceted life began appearing online this week.
Following his service in Vietnam, where he became an expert on Russian weapons and military strategy, he oversaw the dismantling of Soviet-era nuclear warheads following the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in 1988. He also formed and led the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) until 1991.
Lajoie retired from the Army in 1994, then was deputy assistant secretary in the Pentagon under President Bill Clinton, and chairman of a U.S.-Russia joint commission to search for missing American service members.
