DOE NAMES NEW RICHLAND OPERATIONS MANAGER

EM News Flash | Dec. 1, 2014

DOE NAMES NEW RICHLAND OPERATIONS MANAGER   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the selection of Stacy Charboneau as the Manager of the Richland Operations Office (DOE-RL) at the Hanford Site in southwest Washington State. In this role, she will continue cleanup momentum along the Columbia River, help shrink the Department’s active cleanup footprint, and continue safe groundwater remediation and hazardous waste and facilities disposal operations across the Hanford Site. Charboneau has been the Acting Deputy Manager of RL since June 2014.   “Stacy is a talented and seasoned senior executive with tremendous technical and managerial expertise on all aspects of the Hanford cleanup,” said Mark Whitney, Acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management. “Her education, technical and programmatic expertise, and past experience make her uniquely qualified to lead the talented workforce responsible for completing the next and critical phase of the important RL cleanup work.”   Charboneau brings more than 20 years of Hanford experience from both RL and the Office of River Protection (DOE-ORP) and holds the highest project management certification level available in the Department.  She has held several key leadership positions, including Acting Deputy Manager and Assistant Manager for Safety and Environment at RL, ORP Deputy Manager and Chief Operating Officer, ORP Tank Farms Project Assistant Manager and RL Deputy Assistant Manager for River Corridor cleanup.  Before joining EM in 1994 as an engineer in the Waste Operations Division, Charboneau worked for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport, Washington.     RL is responsible for much of the cleanup of the 586-square-mile Hanford Site. In the first two decades of cleanup, RL has completed eighty percent of the cleanup activities along the Columbia River, moved all of the site’s 2,300 tons of spent nuclear fuel to dry storage away from the river, shipped all of the weapons grade plutonium once stored at the Plutonium Finishing Plant off the site, demolished 838 of 1,661 excess facilities, remediated 1,241 of 2,307 waste sites, placed five former plutonium production reactors in interim safe storage, and treated 11 billion gallons of contaminated groundwater.