The Department of Energy has picked the next leader who will manage the Hanford nuclear site, with responsibility for a $3 billion annual budget and oversight of about 13,000 workers.

Ray Geimer, the manager of the Hanford 222-S Laboratory contractor, will start work as the DOE Hanford site manager on Sept. 7.

Brian Harkins has been filling in as acting manager of the site since Brian Vance, the former DOE Hanford manager, resigned as of April 24.

Geimer has worked on DOE environmental cleanup projects for more than 40 years.

He has expertise in nuclear facility construction, nuclear facility operations, deactivation and decommissioning, and engineering and large-scale project management, said Roger Jarrell, DOE principal deputy assistant secretary, in a memo to DOE environmental manag

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