Ex-TRW chief joins consultants

Monday, Feb. 12, 2001 | 11:31 a.m.

George Dials, executive director of the former Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project contractor TRW Environmental Safety Systems Inc., has joined Science & Engineering Associates Inc. of Albuquerque, N.M.

Science & Engineering is a consulting firm that works with the federal government and on commercial projects, spokesman Kevin Bovee said.

When Dials joins the company March 1, he will be executive vice president, a member of the board and president of Quest Technology Inc., an subsidiary in Las Vegas.

Dials was chief of TRW, which until this week was the major Energy Department contractor managing work at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Yucca is the only site under study by the government as a high-level nuclear waste repository.

Bechtel-SAIC became the manager of the repository project today.

TRW and its subcontractors are under a Energy Department's inspector general's investigation for possible conflict of interest with the nuclear industry over a two-page memo written to DOE reviewers on how to sell the Yucca Mountain project to Congress.

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