A former Lawrence Livermore senior manager joined General Atomics this week as the senior vice president of the San Diego-based company’s energy group.
Anantha Krishnan had been Livermore’s Associate Laboratory Director for Engineering for about six years before making the jump to the private sector, according to his LinkedIn profile.
General Atomics announced the hire in a press release.
A year after freshening its fixed-wing fleet, the National Nuclear Security Administration this week released a draft solicitation for a pair of new helicopters to shore up the agency’s radiation sniffing Aerial Management System, part of the Office of Nuclear Incident Response.
The agency’s existing pair of Bell 412HP are getting long in the tooth, and “have reached the point where increasing unscheduled maintenance is adversely affecting the mission readiness posture,” the agency said in the draft request for bids. The aircraft will help the agency sweep wide areas for radioactive emissions, part of the NNSA’s program to prevent weaponization of radioactive material.
The Fluor-led management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site sometimes plays fast and loose with its analysis of nuclear safety issues at the Aiken, S.C. site, DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments Office said this week.
That’s according to the report titled “Assessment of Issues Management at the Savannah River Site SRNS Facilities.”
The internal Department of Energy watchdog identified instances where the contractor allowed personnel to limit corrective actions to prevent a specific failure mode, rather than identifying the root issue of the failure. The office looked at incidents in: the analytical F/H Laboratory; the 235-F building, which handled plutonium, including the Pu-238 isotope for spacecraft; the H Canyon chemical separations facility; the K Area Complex where DOE stores weapon-usable plutonium slated for disposal; and L Area, where DOE stores spent nuclear fuel.
