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Moncton Declines Offer To Direct Brookhaven

David E. Moncton, Argonne's Associate Laboratory Director for the Advanced Photon Source, has declined an offer to serve as interim director of Brookhaven National Laboratory for four months while DOE seeks a new contractor to operate the laboratory.
Energy Secretary Federico Pena last month terminated the contract under which Associated Universities, Inc., operates Brookhaven in response to concern by communities surrounding the laboratory over tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, that has entered the groundwater as a result of Brookhaven activities.

In an e-mail broadcast to APS employees June 20, Moncton stated that he had declined the offer to become Brookhaven's director because the prospective four-month duration of the appointment would not have been sufficient to have "substantial and lasting impact on the laboratory."

"I trust that the changes taking place at Brookhaven will serve as the basis for the renewal of a Laboratory with a great history of contribution to science and to society," Moncton said.

Brookhaven's troubles were compounded June 20, when a worker for an independent contractor was killed in a construction accident on the laboratory's Long Island, NewYork  site.

Pena ordered a site-wide shut down of all construction and facility operations at Brookhaven for a review of safety

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