Bechtel National has named Margaret McCullough its new project director for the Department of Energy‘s $12.2 billion nuclear waste vitrification project at the agency’s Hanford, Wash. site, Engineering News-Record reports.
Debra K. Rubin writes that McCullough will replace Frank Russo who was appointed to serve in another role at Bechtel UK.
Prior to this appointment, McCullough was a director for Bechtel’s Daunia coking-coal project in 
Queensland, Australia.
She has also served as deputy general manager of a Bechtel and SAIC team tasked with a nuclear-waste repository project for the DoE’s Yucca Mountain, Nev. facility.
As one of the prime contractors for the DoE Hanford project, Bechtel will design, construct and begin the waste treatment plant at the site.
The plant will be used for the transformation of 53 million gallons of radioactive and chemical wastes, currently stored in Hanford’s underground tanks.
According to the announcement, the site will be the world’s largest radioactive-waste treatment facility when it is completed.
