EnergySolutions, Salt Lake City, will consider putting nuclear reactors under development at Terrestrial Energy, a Charlotte, N.C., on some of the Utah-based company’s sites, the companies said Wednesday.
In a joint press release, the companies said they signed a memorandum of understanding “to collaborate on the siting and deployment of Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) plants at EnergySolutions-owned sites.”
Terrestrial Energy, which has not produced a reactor yet, is “currently engaged in pre-application activities” with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to the agency.
Santa Fe County commissioners met this week with a coalition for the Caja del Rio plateau that has proposed making the plateau near the Los Alamos National Laboratory a monument, one of them said Wednesday.
Commissioner Anna Hansen told the Monitor about Wednesday’s meeting in an email the week after the local Santa Fe New Mexican reported that the the Santa Fe County Board of County Commissioners drafted a letter requesting that President Joe Biden (D) designate Caja del Rio plateau as a national monument through the Antiquities Act to shield it from a planned powerline for the Los Alamos powerline.
Hansen said this week that she “did not say any thing about the power line and opposition to it.” The draft, which said the landscape is “threatened by Los Alamos National Laboratory, illegal dumping, desecration, and irresponsible offroading,” was tabled for approval Nov. 26. Hansen told the New Mexican last week that the letter would likely be reconsidered on Dec. 10, and that she hoped national monument status would be secured by Jan. 20 when President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated.
Fluor’s longtime chief financial officer and executive vice president Joe Brennan plans to retire July 1, 2025 after more than three decades with the Irving, Texas-based government contractor.
Fluor announced Brennan’s planned departure in a Monday press release, adding he will be replaced by the company’s chief accounting officer, John Regan.
Regan, currently chief accounting officer and executive vice president,, will become the successor effective March 1, 2025, Fluor said. Regan also has more than three decades of financial and industry experience, according to the release. Before joining Fluor, Regan worked in chief financial officer posts at Alta Mesa and Vine Oil & Gas, according to the release.
Virginia-based Amentum Holdings Monday announced the appointment of Darren Burton as its chief people officer of the publicly traded company with 53,000 employees spread across 80 countries.
Burton has more than two decades of experience in corporate personnel management, Amentum said in a Monday press release.
Burton’s most recent post was chief people officer at Eightfold AI, a platform for recruiting talent for artificial intelligence, according to the press release. Before that, he was vice chair of human resources of auditor KPMG and a member of its management committee.
Michael Schlender, a former deputy director at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, is joining the advisory board for Longenecker & Associates, the company said Thursday.
Schlender worked more than 30 years for national labs, including top management jobs at Pacific Northwest and the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, Longenecker said in the release. His appointment is effective next month, according to the Las Vegas-based DOE contractor.
