RICHARD W. DEESE NAMED NRC RESIDENT INSPECTOR
AT GRAND GULF NUCLEAR STATION

The U.S. Nulear Regulatory Commission has named Richard W. Deese to the post of resident inspector at the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station near Port Gibson, Miss. Mr. Deese joins senior resident inspector Timothy Hoeg.

Mr. Deese received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, with honors, from North Carolina State University in 1986. Following college, he worked at Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, one of the U.S. Navy's primary contractors for nuclear engineering support, for more than 12 years. He worked as a nuclear plant engineer and instructor at Navy submarine nuclear prototype reactors in Idaho and at a nuclear training ship in Charleston, South Carolina. He also worked as a shipyard engineering resident in Newport News, Virginia, during the refueling, construction and acceptance testing of nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

Since joining the NRC in 1999, Mr. Deese has served as a reactor inspector in the Engineering and Maintenance Branch of Division of Reactor Safety at Region IV in Arlington, Texas. Mr. Deese, his wife Stephanie and their four children will reside in Vicksburg.

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