Laurin Dodd Named To Security Position

The former international nuclear safety program manager at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will take over management of national security work at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory.

Laurin Dodd will hold the position of associate laboratory director in overseeing the projects related to national security, Laboratory Director Billy Shipp announced on Monday.

A spokeswoman said the job in the reorganized management scheme under Bechtel B&W Idaho, the new contractor at the INEEL, is intended to focus more attention on the facility’s national security work.

Shipp called Dodd a technical authority on activities in the former Soviet Union who has excellent contacts in the government and nuclear industry sectors both domestically and in the nine former Soviet republics.