Lynchburg, Va.-based BWX Technologies said Wednesday it has promoted Heatherly H. Dukes to the position of president of the company’s Technical Services Group.
Dukes has most recently served as the group’s chief operating officer, overseeing BWXT operations at more than a dozen Energy Department and NASA facilities with an annual contract value of about $7 billion, according to a company news release. In her new job, Dukes will report to BWXT Nuclear Services Group President Ken Camplin.
She has worked in the nuclear industry for 31 years and has held management posts in decommissioning and demolition, engineering, and project management.
Dukes has been with BWXT since 1995 and has been stationed at DOE sites including the Savannah River Site in South Carolina where she was chief engineer for nuclear materials management, the West Valley Demonstration Project in New York state, where Dukes served as manager, Nuclear Operations and High Level Waste Storage, and the Portsmouth Site in Ohio, where she as nuclear safety and engineering director.
The BWXT business group does work for DOE’s Office of Environmental Management and the National Nuclear Security Administration. BWXT is a supplier of nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government.
AVANTech, which works at the Energy Department’s Hanford Site in Washington state, has named a veteran of nuclear waste cleanup as its senior process engineer for the Hanford Tank Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) Project.
The Columbia, S.C.-based water treatment provider, a subcontractor to Hanford waste storage tank farm manager Washington River Protection Solutions, said Thursday that Robert Wilson will also be involved in other AVANTech wastewater treatment projects.
Wilson has more than 20 years of experience doing legacy nuclear waste work at sites such as Fernald in Ohio, Hanford, Rocky Flats in Colorado, and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. He has expertise in process and chemical engineering, as well as compliance with environmental regulations.
The senior engineer was hired from InnovaWest LLC, a State of Washington-based scientific and technical consulting firm.
Wilson will work out of a former Mid Columbia Engineering (MCE) office Richland, Wash. Mid Columbia is now an AVANTech division after a July buyout for an undisclosed price.
AVANTech recently received a WRPS subcontract, for an undisclosed sum, to design and construct a pretreatment facility for tank wastes at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) being built at Hanford. The cesium removal demonstration project is meant to remove both cesium and solid materials from tank waste.
Washington River Protection Solutions manages 177 underground tanks at Hanford holding 56 million gallons of high-level and low-activity radioactive waste. The waste is left over from plutonium production for the U.S. nuclear defense.
