Heatherly H. Dukes

Heatherly H. Dukes is president of BWX Technologies, Inc.’s (BWXT) Technical Service Group (TSG). Ms. Dukes oversees critical work for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), especially the Office of Science missions, Environmental Management clean-up initiatives, Naval Reactors deactivation and decommissioning (D&D) priorities, and operations and maintenance activities that support NASA’s Space Launch System.

Ms. Dukes has more than 31 years of experience in the nuclear industry. She joined BWXT in 1995 and most recently served as the chief operating officer for TSG. Ms. Dukes has held key positions at the Savannah River site in Aiken, South Carolina, West Valley Demonstration Project in New York and Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth LLC in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Her depth and breadth of accomplishments include reactor restarts, deactivation of 146 facilities, demolition of 15 facilities, construction support for the Salt Waste Processing Facility and design and construction of an outdoor cask storage system for vitrified high level waste canisters.

Ms. Dukes earned her Bachelor of Science degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Florida.