Jim McClusky - Bio
Jim McClusky
Project Director
300 Area Replacement Facilities Project Office
As Project Director for the 300 Area Replacement Facilities Project, Jim McClusky is responsible for overseeing the single largest construction project in the 41 history of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. McClusky has until 2011 to safely and cost-effectively build about 575,000 square feet of modern laboratory and office space on the PNNL campus. The new infrastructure will replace nearly 50 percent of PNNL's experimental lab space located in aging facilities in the 300 Area of the nearby Hanford Site. These antiquated laboratories, slated for cleanup by 2012, support about $200 million of PNNL's total R&D budget.
To meet accelerated cleanup, McClusky and his team must build replacement space — a $224 million federal investment as well as additional funding by private developers — to accommodate displaced staff, equipment and research capabilities. The total project includes constructing as many as five new laboratories sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of Homeland Security and third-party investors. McClusky also is responsible for overseeing construction of the joint Washington State University and PNNL Bioproducts, Sciences, and Engineering Laboratory. BSEL, a $24 million facility for research and higher education, will be located on the WSU Tri-Cities branch campus and is scheduled to be completed and occupied by 2007.
Prior to joining PNNL, McClusky was an engineering director and chief engineer at Fluor Hanford, Inc. In his role, he was responsible for directing engineering activities required to safely remove and store irradiated fuel from the fuel storage basins at Hanford for future long-term storage or disposal.
Education
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; Rockefeller Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow, 1972
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa; Ph.D., Nuclear/Chemical Engineering, 1971
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, B.A. Chemistry and
Physics, 1962