Balendra Sutharshan
Balendra Sutharshan, deputy associate laboratory director for operational systems at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as associate laboratory director for the Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate, or ISED.
Sutharshan succeeds Alan Icenhour, who has been appointed as ORNL's next deputy for operations. Before joining PNNL, Sutharshan served as chief operations officer for the Energy and Global Security Directorate at Argonne National Laboratory and spent nearly 20 years in a series of leadership roles with Westinghouse.
Isotope research, production, discovery, and application has been a key component of ORNL’s national missions since its founding during the Manhattan Project.