Don Harlow

DONALD G. HARLOW has more than 40 years of diverse technical and operating experience in engineering and operating management of nuclear chemical processing and waste facilities. He provided direct shift support, around-the-clock operating and technical management for several Hanford site facilities including; the PUREX Chemical Separations Plant, Uranium Oxide Conversion Plant, B Plant cesium and strontium recovery and purification, Plutonium Finishing Plant and Waste Management. Mr. Harlow is experienced in organizing and successfully implementing large, complex chemical processing/waste management facilities, routine and non-routine startups, operating campaigns, shutdown and deactivation operations. He has been involved in a number of formal and informal process technical and safety reviews at several nuclear chemical processing sites. He has also participated in facility readiness reviews, provided follow-up on occurrence reports as well as review, coordination and reporting of major chemical processing initiatives.

Prior to joining Polestar, Mr. Harlow was a Senior Chemical Process Safety Engineer for DOE where he provided technical assistance and information, inspections, and Operational Readiness Reviews at several sites including Oak Ridge National Lab, Savannah River Operations Office, Idaho National Engineering Environmental Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, and the Hanford Site in Washington State. He served as the Deactivation Manager of PUREX for Westinghouse Hanford Company, which involved deactivation design engineering, regulatory compliance, safety documentation and real-time process control. He was instrumental in providing technical leadership for several major operating initiatives for Rockwell Hanford. His work at ARCO Hanford as Team Leader of Process Control involved formulating operating procedures to implement new chemical dissolution technology for zirconium-clad metal.

Mr. Harlow holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Seattle University and has extensive Continuing Education in Re-engineering, Project Management, Conduct of Operations, Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Accident Investigation.