George Clare
George Clare serves Global Learning and Leadership as a Director and as Advisor for STEM related to nuclear energy and facility management applications. Mr. Clare has demonstrated outstanding supervisory leadership with a 41-year record of accomplishment across the entire spectrum of technical and organizational contexts including: nuclear reactors, waste management, fuel cycle, decontamination & decommissioning; commercial and government contracts; general management, engineering, operations, licensing, and marketing for programs and projects ranging from $700M/yr. up to $2B/yr. George has been recognized for excellent customer relations, quality & safety practices, and regulatory compliance operations.
Mr. Clare has demonstrated outstanding leadership for each organizational role assigned. He served as the Head of Project Engineering for Major Projects for URS Corporation in the UK. He served as the URS VP for Business Development including post-Fukushima cleanup market, and as lead author for Y-12/Pantex/Tritium, Hanford Vision 2020, and GE-Hitachi Laser Enrichment Engineering and Testing Proposals. He managed the Yucca Mountain Project M&O Contractor activities applying an earned value system required by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for monitoring the multi-billion dollar repository project. George served as the VP of Northwest Projects for Washington Group International. In Richland WA, he provided overall leadership and management of company activities supporting design, procurement, construction, start-up and operation of DOE’s $12 billion Waste Treatment Immobilization Project. Mr. Clare also oversaw construction of four major nuclear/radiological facilities to treat high-level and low-level wastes stored in underground tanks at the DOE Hanford Reservation.
Mr. Clare served as Director, Field Support Services at DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) providing broad technical and administrative support to 10 nuclear operations areas, Savannah River National Laboratory, and 9,000 personnel. His responsibilities included site safety, industrial health, radiological control, environmental protection, medical services, physical security, nuclear material safeguards and accountability, emergency management, fire protection, engineering, nuclear safety, QA, maintenance, training, procurement, records management, human resources, IT, geotechnical engineering, and inspection services (budget $1.8B/yr.). At SRS, he also served as Site Chief Engineer for six years completing $500M of project designs, led development of Consolidated Hazards Analysis Program integrating facility/hazards analyses, and implemented DOE Nuclear Safety regulations for 20 Hazard Category 1, 2, or 3 Facilities. He led SRS spent fuel storage operations, and preparation/completion of Safety Analysis Reports (SARs) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs) for 4 nuclear facilities, and management/operations of five nuclear reactors and facilities including re-start operations.
Mr. George Clare holds a Masters in Nuclear Engineering, and B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University.