President Donald Trump plans to nominate consultant Anne M. White of Michigan to head the Energy Department’s Office of Environmental Management, which oversees cleanup of DOE’s Cold War complex sites, the White House announced Wednesday.
White, founder of Bastet Technical Services LLC, has worked for more than 25 years within the nuclear sector, including a focus on project and program management, according to the announcement.
White has extensive experience at many of the sites that she would oversee as assistant energy secretary for environmental management, the White House said: “Further, Ms. White has supported a number of emerging nuclear power nations to develop legal and regulatory structures and national policies.”
White holds a master’s in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Kansas, according to her LinkedIn profile page.
Her LinkedIn page says she is working for Atkins on a decontamination and decommissioning planning project for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California, which is scheduled to close in 2025. The online biography also said White has provided consulting services to DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
There was no answer Wednesday at a telephone number listed for Bastet Technical Services in Denver.
If confirmed by the Senate, White would succeed longtime DOE manager James Owendoff, who since last summer has been acting head of the $6.5 billion-per-year cleanup operation.
