DOE Names New Manager For Savannah River Site

摘要

In a key appointment, the Energy Departmentrnhas named Dave Moody, manager of its Carlsbad, N.M., office for the past five years, as the new DOE site manager for its troubled Savannah River Site, where he will oversee extensive cleanup operations that include the removal of more than 30 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste from decades-old underground storage tanks.rnMoody, who at Carlsbad was in charge of DOE's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), an underground disposal repository for plutonium and other transuranic waste, takes over at Savannah River following internal strife at the South Carolina nuclear weapons facility over the use of economic stimulus funds under the Obama administration.