An upscale distillery run by Anne Marie White, the last Senate-confirmed assistant secretary for the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management, is now open in a renovated theatre in White’s hometown of Marquette, Mich.
The Honorable Distillery is now open and has scheduled an official grand opening celebration for this Saturday Oct. 8.
White, assistant energy secretary for environmental management for 14 months during the administration of President Donald Trump, and Scott Anderson, a weapons complex manager with Jacobs, have opened the distillery. The drink menu supplements locally bottled whisky with locally distilled and bottled gin and vodka.
The initial containers of low-level radioactive waste have been sealed into vaults with grout at the Dounreay nuclear site, the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said this week.
The first phase of grouting has now been finished within the vault and 16 waste packages have been sealed into their final positions, according to the Wednesday press release. Larger grouting campaigns are in the works.
The work is being done by a team from Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd and local contractors Arch Henderson, John Gunn & Sons, JGC Engineering and Hugh Simpson Contractors.
The BWX Technologies-led liquid waste cleanup contractor at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina has cut the ribbon on a new office headquarters.
The Savannah River Mission Completion facility on Silver Bluff Road in Aiken, S.C., will also be used to hold training sessions, the contractor said in a press release this week. In addition to BWXT, Amentum and Fluor are on the team.
Oak Ridge, Tenn.,-based Navarro Research & Engineering has hired Susanna Waters as director of business development, to work with environmental and nuclear customers at NASA, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy.
Waters has more than a decade of relevant business development experience, Navarro President and CEO Susana Navarro said in a September press release.
Prior to joining Navarro, Waters spent five years in business development posts at GEM Technologies.
