Inside the $8 Billion DOE Nuclear Waste Cleanup Program: Steve Moore on Veolia's Federal Services
The U.S. Department of Energy spends roughly $8 billion annually cleaning up nuclear waste from Manhattan Project-era sites like Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. On this episode of the Environmental Transformation Podcast, host Sean Grady sits down with Steve Moore, president and CEO of Veolia Nuclear Solutions Federal Services Group, to discuss the agency's most pressing environmental liabilities and innovative remediation technologies.
Moore describes the scale of the challenge: 56 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste currently stored in above-ground tanks at Hanford alone. He explains how Veolia's patented GeoMelt vitrification technology transforms reactive metals and radioactive waste into stable glass, and discusses the company's operations of two of the largest radioactive waste landfills in the nation.
The conversation covers emerging opportunities to revitalize federal sites as data centers and advanced reactor facilities, the "competetition" model where contractors collaborate on complex projects, and why the nuclear remediation field offers meaningful careers for young professionals seeking challenging environmental work.
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CEO of Veolia Nuclear Solution Federal Service and been in the nuclear business for over 30 years. Prior to working at VNSFS, Mr. Moore served as President & CEO of, Wastren Advantage, Inc. (WAI) from 2006 until Veolia acquired it in 2018. Under Steve's leadership, WAI grew from a regional firm with less than 50 employees to a national company providing products and services around the globe.
Steve is on the board of several non-profit groups that support economic development, innovation incubators, and health and welfare providers. He is a founding member of the Tri State Angel Investment Group which is a private equity fund established in 2015 to focus on investing in companies in the Southern Ohio region.
Steve has an A.A.S in Plastics Engineering Technology and a BS in Natural Science from Shawnee State University, a Juris Doctorate from Capital University Law School, and completed an Executive Education program at Harvard Business School. He is is a member of the Ohio Bar Association.
