Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies has named David Brown to lead a joint venture, BWSR LLC, focused on decommissioning and tearing down facilities at Naval Nuclear Laboratory sites.
Brown will lead the 250-person BWXT Technical Services Group-APTIM Federal Services team that provides cleanup at sites under contract to Fluor Marine Propulsion in Idaho, Pennsylvania, and New York, according to a Tuesday press release. The venture, which has been at the sites since 2010, is nearing the end of a $140 million, two-year contract extension, though it has an option for a third year.
The vacancy at the helm of BWSR was created when John Stewart became president of BWXT’s Tennessee-based Nuclear Fuel Services subsidiary in July.
Brown has more than 35 years of decommissioning and demolition (D&D) and other nuclear experience, and most recently he led a $238 million facility deactivation project for BWXT at the Energy Department’s Portsmouth Site in Ohio. He has run both government and commercial nuclear decommissioning projects in the United States and abroad.
Brown also spent 11 years as a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer.
“Dave’s impressive history with BWXT and his professional roots in the D&D industry and U.S. Navy submarine force make him uniquely suited for this leadership role with BWSR,” said BWXT Nuclear Services Group President Ken Camplin in a press release.
