Jill Hruby becomes first woman to run US nuclear weapons lab
JUN 24, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028983
Science : On Monday, Jill Hruby was named Sandia National Laboratories’ new director. Hruby will be the first woman to lead one of the US’s three nuclear weapons labs. As the head of Sandia, Hruby will oversee much of the country’s R&D focused on maintaining and upgrading the country’s nuclear arsenal. Hruby, who has worked at Sandia for the last 32 years, will take over for Paul Hommert on 17 July. Sandia has a lower profile than its counterparts at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, but is considered by the Department of Energy to be the best managed of the three facilities.
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