Dennis Wilson has been elected as the new chairman of the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) in Tennessee for fiscal 2018. The panel of up to 22 members makes recommendations to DOE regarding operations at the Oak Ridge Reservation, home to a large-scale cleanup of former uranium enrichment operations.
ORSSAB held its officer elections on Oct. 11.
Wilson, a retired JohnsonDiversey Products technology manager, was previously vice chairman and has been a member of the federally chartered citizens’ panel since 2015.
Belinda Price, a senior hydrogeologist with Alliant Corp. who joined the board in 2013, was picked as the vice chair. She has previously chaired the panel for two consecutive terms.
Richard Burroughs, a registered professional geologist who has been on the board since 2015, will fill the vacancy at secretary created by the recent retirement from the panel of David Hemelright.
Also last month, the ORSSAB’s Environmental Management/Stewardship Committee selected Fred Swindler as its chair and John Tapp as its vice chair. Swindler, a semi-retired consultant for IsoRay Medical, previously served as vice chair for the committee and has been a member of the advisory board since 2016. Tapp is a retired civil/environmental engineer who joined the advisory board in 2017.
ORSSAB meets the second Wednesday of most months, according to a news release from the board.
Michael Kluse, former director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, has joined the Longenecker & Associates strategic advisory board.
Currently a consultant, Kluse headed PNNL, operated by Battelle for the Department of Energy, from January 2007 through March 2015. While heading the national laboratory, he was also a senior vice president for Battelle.
L&A President John Longenecker said in a news release this week that Kluse would bring the company board “a wealth of knowledge about the Department of Energy’s national laboratories and the entire DOE science enterprise.”
Kluse first joined Battelle in 1976 at its Columbus, Ohio, offices as a defense and space systems research scientist. Before assuming the helm of PNNL, Kluse was vice president of Battelle’s defense engineering branch and vice president/general manager of Battelle’s navy business. In 1997, he was named to head PNNL’s national security directorate. He held that post for 10 years before becoming lab director.
Kluse holds a bachelor’s degree in systems analysis from Miami University in Ohio, and a master’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio State University.
Longenecker & Associates currently lists about 20 members on its advisory board, which meets several times a year to provide strategic advice to the company. Founded in 1989, Las Vegas-based L&A provides technical and management support to clients in the nuclear and environmental markets.
