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| Private Organization | Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction corporation. It was a family corporation owned by Kenneth A. Roe and his family. George K. Pender was a former Director of the Pacific Ocean area for Burns & Roe, Inc. |
Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction corporation. It was a family corporation owned by Kenneth A. Roe and his family. George K. Pender was a former Director of the Pacific Ocean area for Burns & Roe, Inc., and also served as a Senior Engineer Consultant to the company.1
Under Kenneth A. Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. was involved in major projects, including the engineering design and construction of the United States Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor Plant in conjunction with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which was responsible for the nuclear system supply of steam. At the time, the construction value of Burns & Roe, Inc.'s business backlog exceeded six billion U.S. dollars.1
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎