Johnson begins new tenure at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions Just six weeks into her new job, the new chief of Savannah River Site’s management and operations contractor has her eye on the site’s half-century-old infrastructure and its aging workforce. Carol Johnson, a 30-year veteran of the nuclear and environmental management industry, is president and CEO of Savannah River Nuclear Solutions. She most recently served as president and project manager of Washington Closure Hanford, where she led a $2.4 billion environmental cleanup. At SRNS, she replaced CEO Dwayne Wilson, who announced in May that he was leaving for another position with Fluor Corp., a global engineering and construction firm that is one of the three companies that makes up SRNS. Securing federal funding to update infrastructure, including electrical distributions and fire protection systems, is crucial for stability and safety at SRS, Johnson said. She said she will aggressively push the Department of Energy for funding to support missions at SRS. “We are dealing with infrastructure on the site that is 50-plus years old in some cases,” she said. Maintaining workforce numbers, which have been cut in recent years, also ensures the site operates safely and efficiently, Johnson said. Workforce cuts were too deep, she said. In coming years, Johnson intends [...] geogianews/johnson-begins-new-tenure-at-savannah-river-nuclear-solutions/
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:01:00 +0000
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