Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Boston Government Services, has hired Doug Freund in the newly-created post of chief operating officer, the Department of Energy contractor said this week.
Freund was most recently senior vice president for Kiewit Nuclear Solutions, where he was responsible for markets and strategy, Boston Government Services said in a press release. In addition, Freund has been a vice president with Consolidated Nuclear Security, helping oversee operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge and the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas.
The U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) planned Sept. 11 to present findings that Iran had slowed, but not ceased, enrichment of near-weapons-grade uranium, and that the Persian Gulf nation had not allowed the international nuclear watchdog to substantially increase monitoring of Tehran’s nuclear program, media reported this week.
CBS News, citing an IAEA spokesperson, was among the outlets to report that the IAEA would present these findings at a news conference next week, prior to a meeting of the agency’s board of member nations.
The U.S.’ strict requirements for exporting nuclear power technology can be “disadvantageous,” Daniel Poneman, president and CEO Centrus Energy Corp., told HuffPost recently.
The Centrus chief and former deputy secretary of energy spoke to the outlet as part of a Sept. 3 story about Saudi Arabia’s nuclear power ambitions. The Kingdom has balked at buying U.S. nuclear power technology, which isn’t exported to countries that won’t pledge to refrain from enriching uranium, and considered buying Chinese nuclear power technology, which comes without those strings attached.
