Barbara Rusinko, a veteran of Bechtel National’s Yucca Mountain and Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant programs, has joined the parent company’s Board of Directors, Bechtel Group announced Tuesday.
Rusinko, president of Bechtel Nuclear, Security & Environmental, gets her vote on the board after 33 years with the company. Before taking charge in 2016 of the unit that handles the company’s nuclear energy, cleanup, and weapons work, Rusinko worked on the oil and gas side of Bechtel’s business.
In 2000, Rusinko was chief engineer for Bechtel’s government services company. She has held engineering and management positions for the on-again-off-again Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository the Department of Energy wants to build in Nye County, Nev., and the Waste Treatment Plant the agency is building at the Hanford Site in Washington state to solidify up to 56 million gallons of Cold War nuclear-weapons-waste. Rusinko has also worked on liquid waste cleanup at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
