Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s next director is expected to be named in the next few weeks, and it’s not going to be Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason. Mason told the Knoxville News Sentinel that he would not be moving to one of the NNSA’s nuclear weapons laboratories. “I’m staying here. This is where I want to be,” Mason said. Read more here.
Interviews for the Livermore job were believed to have been conducted last week; Mason did not say whether he interviewed for the Livermore job. Mason was among at least six candidates for the job, including Livermore weapons chief Bruce Goodwin, LLNL science and technology Director Tomas Diaz de la Rubia, National Ignition Facility Director Ed Moses, Livermore Global Security chief Parney Albright, and University of Purdue President and former NASA chief scientist France Cordova.
