Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings Corp. on Nov. 8 named William Madia to its Board of Directors.
In addition to heading his own energy consulting firm, Madia is chairman of the board and vice president for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University in California. Originally called the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC is one of the Energy Department’s 17 national laboratories.
Madia spent 32 years with Battelle before retiring in 2007. During his Battelle tenure, Madia held director posts at both the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He has served as president of Battelle Technology International, which has research facilities in Germany and Switzerland.
Madia, who holds a doctorate in nuclear chemistry, also worked for General Physics Corp., where he trained nuclear power plant operators, and served in the U.S. Army, where he worked with its nuclear power program.
“Bill is one of the great strategic minds in the industry and I look forward to his counsel as we expand and diversify SNC-Lavalin’s business within the U.S. federal market,” Atkins Nuclear Secured President Tom Jouvanis said in the company press release.
Montreal-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin completed its purchase of WS Atkins in July 2017. Atkins Nuclear Secured Holdings focuses on the federal agency market for SNC-Lavalin’s global nuclear sector.
Atkins is a partner in the AECOM-led Washington River Protection Solutions team managing tank operations at the Hanford Site in Washington state, and leads the Mid-America Conversion Services team managing uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion plants for DOE in Portsmouth, Ohio, and Paducah, Ky.
