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- Organization
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- Company
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- Engineering
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- Nuclear
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category: "Private Organization"
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summary: "Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction firm owned by the Roe family, which employed George K. Pender as a sales representative who established its West Coast division."
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Burns & Roe, Inc. was an international engineering and construction corporation. It was a family corporation owned by [[Kenneth A. Roe]] and his family. According to his 1999 obituary, [[George K. Pender]] joined Burns & Roe, Inc. in [[Oradell, New Jersey|Oradell]], New Jersey, as a sales representative after working for [[Aerojet|General Aerojet Corporation]] in [[Los Angeles]], and was responsible for establishing a West Coast division for the firm.[^1] [[Cheri Seymour]] wrote that he was a former Director of the [[Pacific Ocean]] area for Burns & Roe, Inc., and a Senior Engineer Consultant to the company.[^2]
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Under Kenneth A. Roe's leadership, Burns & Roe, Inc. was involved in major projects, including the engineering design and construction of the [[United States|U.S.A.]] 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.[^2]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: College of the Holy Cross, *Holy Cross Magazine*, "In Memoriam," Summer 1999, entry for George K. Pender (died Jan. 6, 1999). Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20040812105331/http://www.holycross.edu/departments/publicaffairs/hcm/summer99/in_memoriam/1927.html
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[^2]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
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