Donna Busche, another URS Corp. senior employee at the U.S. Energy Dept.’s Hanford nuclear waste cleanup site in Washington state, is tieing her termination from the company to safety concerns she has raised about the site’s troubled waste vitrification plant, whose design now is under review.
Busche claims that her Feb. 18 firing as URS manager of environmental and nuclear safety on the $12.3-billion plant is related to legal actions she took against the firm, a site subcontractor, and against project prime contractor Bechtel Corp., for alleged whistleblowing harassment.