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Paul B. Abramson

Judge Abramson, the Panel's Special Associate Chief Administrative Judge (Technical/Legal), has an extensive legal and technical background and was appointed to the Panel in January 2004. He practiced corporate and finance law as a partner in the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe from 1995 to 2001 and as a partner in Winston & Strawn from 1990 to 1995. Paul specialized in power, pipeline, and telecommunications project development, construction, and financing and was elected internationally by his peers as one of the world's leading project finance lawyers in consecutive bi-annual periods from 1995 through 2001. Before entering the practice of law, Dr. Abramson was the head of LWR Systems Safety Analysis at Argonne National Laboratory where he and his team supported the NRC's research and regulatory divisions, and he lead the team that performed the initial analysis of the accident at Three Mile Island (for the NSAC at EPRI). After receipt of his Ph.D., he was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow and then spent six years as a professor of physics. At the outset of his technical career in the early 1960s, he worked on the SNAP 2 (Space Nuclear Auxiliary Power) system design and testing and on the fuel delivery system for liquid fueled rockets.

Gary S. Arnold

B.S., Math, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1975)
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1981)
M.S., Math, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1986)
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1988)

Dr. Arnold was appointed to the Panel as a full-time technical judge in 2008. In his 20 years at Knolls, his major fields of interest included analysis of two-phase flow stability, development of real-time simulation models of advanced/innovative reactor plant designs, realistic evaluations of plant transients, containment thermal hydraulics, and severe accident analysis. He has also acted as liaison with reactor safety engineers in the UK submarine design community. After completing Naval Nuclear Power School in 1977, Dr. Arnold served as an engineering officer aboard a fleet ballistic missile nuclear submarine until his release from active service in 1980. From 1981 to 1983, he worked as a startup engineer during fuel load, initial criticality, physics testing, and power ascension testing at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Anthony J. Baratta

A.B., B.S., Columbia University (1968)
M.S., Ph.D., Brown University (1978)

Dr. Baratta is a full-time technical member of the Panel, having joined in the fall of 2003. Before his appointment as the Associate Chief Administrative Judge (Technical) he served as professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State. While at Penn State he headed the Nuclear Safety Center, served as the chair of the Nuclear Engineering program, taught graduate and undergraduate courses, and supervised numerous M.S. and Ph.D. theses in nuclear engineering and physics. Dr. Baratta is the author of two books: an introductory nuclear engineering text, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, co-authored with the late J.R. Lamarsh and a historic account of the accident at Three Mile Island, TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact, co-authored with T.W. Conkling and B.A. Osif. His prior Federal service includes 30 years in the Naval Reserve where he rose to the rank of Captain as well as service with the Division of Naval Reactors, U.S. DOE. Dr. Baratta has served as a consultant on nuclear safety in the U.S. and abroad. He is the author of numerous technical articles on thermal hydraulics, reactor kinetics, and reactor safety. He holds two patents and is active in a number of professional societies.

Mark O. Barnett

B.S., University of Tennessee (1985)
M.S., University of Tennessee (1991)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina (1998)

G. Paul Bollwerk, III

B.A., University of Notre Dame (1975)
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center (1978)

Judge Bollwerk has been a full-time legal member of the Panel since July 1991 and served as Chief Administrative Judge from January 1999 through June 2006. Before being appointed to the Licensing Board Panel, Judge Bollwerk served as an administrative judge on the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel, a senior attorney in the NRC Office of the General Counsel, a special assistant U.S. attorney with the Department of Justice, and an associate attorney in the law firm of Gardner Carton & Douglas in Washington, D.C. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a Federal district court judge and a state supreme court judge. Judge Bollwerk is on the faculty of the National Judicial College as a lecturer on managing complex cases and courtroom technology.

Robin Brett

B.S., University of Adelaide (1956)
M.A., Harvard University (1960)
Ph.D, Harvard University (1963)

Dr. Brett has been a part-time member of the Panel since 1998. During his professional career, Dr. Brett has served as a geologist for the U.S. Office of Geological Survey, director of the Earth Science Division of the National Science Foundation, and as chief of the Geochemistry Branch of the Johnson Space Center, where he was awarded the Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1973. In addition to holding several leadership positions on various scientific committees and panels, Dr. Brett has also published over 130 scientific papers and abstracts on geology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and petrology.

William C. Burnett

B.S., Upsala College (1968)
M.S., Ph.D., University of Hawaii (1974)

Dr. Burnett was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2006. He is the Carl Henry Oppenheimer Professor of Oceanography in the Department of Oceanography at Florida State University. He is also Director of the Environmental Radioactivity Measurement Facility at FSU. Dr. Burnett has a worldwide research program based on the measurement of natural uranium and thorium decay-series isotopes in marine and terrestrial systems. He has chaired committees and working groups sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project of IGBP, UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Dr. Burnett serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, Biogeosciences, and Environmental Forensics. He has authored about 150 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and books, and served as principal investigator on over 40 national, state, and corporate research grants including awards from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Energy, American Chemical Society, and Earthwatch.

Richard F. Cole

B.S.C.E., Drexel University (1959)
M.S.S.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina (1968)

Dr. Cole has been a full-time member of the Panel since 1973. In addition to publishing numerous articles on water, wastewater treatment, and international training of environmental engineering, Dr. Cole has held teaching, administrative, and engineering positions in the United States and Guatemala with the University of North Carolina, Pennsylvania State University, and the state of Pennsylvania. He has held several leadership positions and committee assignments with numerous professional associations and is a diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

Thomas S. Elleman

B.S., Denison University (1953)
Ph.D., Iowa State University (1957)

Dr. Elleman was appointed to the Panel as a part-time member in 1990. Over the course of his 40-year career, Dr. Elleman has conducted research in private industry, including Carolina Power & Light Co. and General Atomics, and at North Carolina State University where he was a professor of nuclear engineering, a department he headed from 1974 to 1979. He has published more than 60 articles in the field of nuclear chemistry. Dr. Elleman is also an American Board of Health Physics Board Certified Health Physicist.

Michael C. Farrar

B.B.A., magna cum laude, University of Notre Dame (1962)
J.D., first in the class, University of Notre Dame Law School (1965)

Having been a member of the AEC/NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel from 1973 to 1980, Judge Farrar returned to the NRC as a full-time legal member of the Licensing Board Panel in 2001. His government career included serving as a law clerk for a Federal district court judge in New Orleans, as an appellate lawyer in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, and two stints at the Environmental Protection Agency: first as the assistant general counsel for pesticides at the Agency's start-up, and later in the Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program. In 16 years in the private sector, he was vice president for environment at two organizations in the pulp, paper, and forest products industry: first at the industry's national trade association and then at a member company with 150 production facilities. His experience also includes two years of policy analysis at the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies, on projects reviewing the nation's environmental protection system and the nation's nuclear regulatory process. Mr. Farrar served for a decade on the Board of Visitors of Duke University's School of the Environment.

William J. Froehlich

B.A., Harpur College, SUNY @ Binghamton (1972)
J.D., Brooklyn Law School (1975)

Judge Froehlich was appointed a full-time legal member of the Panel in March 2008. Previously, Judge Froehlich was a member of the senior executive service at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He held a number of key leadership positions during his 32-year career at FERC including Director of the Office of Administrative Litigation, Special Counsel to the Office of Enforcement, Assistant General Counsel for Gas and Oil Litigation and Director of the Financial Regulation Division. He oversaw the agency's trial staff in the adjudication of natural gas, oil pipeline, and electric utility rate cases. He also handled cases involving the importation of liquefied natural gas, the rates and charges for newly constructed pipelines, and the prosecution of cases arising from the Enron trading schemes. He represented the agency and the United States in China and throughout Eastern Europe, where he has lectured foreign regulators and taught classes on administrative law, the privatization of state-owned industries, public utility ratemaking, and the development of independent regulatory structures. Judge Froehlich continues to teach at George Mason University, where he is an adjunct professor of administrative law.

Michael O. Garcia

B.S., Geology, Humboldt State University, California (1971)
Ph.D., Geology, University of California at Los Angeles (1976)

Dr. Garcia was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2007. He has been a professor at the University of Hawaii since 1976. His areas of expertise include field geology, igneous petrology, volcanology, deep scientific drilling and marine geology. He has authored or co-authored over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research focuses on [the] active volcanoes, especially in Hawaii. He has been an editor for several international journals and served on advisory panels for NSF and various professional organizations. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Michael M. Gibson

B.A., University of Oklahoma (1972)
J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law (1975)

Brian K. Hajek

B.A., Math, and B.S., Physics, Otterbein College (1966)
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Ohio State University (1972)

E. Roy Hawkens

B.S., United States Naval Academy (1975)
J.D., College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe Law School (1983)

Judge Hawkens has been a full-time legal member of the Panel since September 2004 and was appointed Chief Administrative Judge on July 1, 2006. After completing Naval Nuclear Power School, Mr. Hawkens served as a nuclear engineering officer aboard a fleet ballistic missile nuclear submarine and as a radiological controls officer aboard a submarine tender. After leaving active duty Naval Service, he attended and graduated law school, where he was Order of the Coif and managing editor of the Law Review. Thereafter, Mr. Hawkens clerked for Judge Tamm on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In 1985, Mr. Hawkens joined the Department of Justice where, as a litigator on the Appellate Staff of the Civil Division, he represented the Federal Government in a wide range of cases, including Constitutional claims, administrative claims, contract claims, tort claims, and employment-related claims.

Yassin A. Hassan

B.S., Engineering, University of Alexandria (1968)
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois (1975)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Virginia, (1985)
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois (1980)

Dr. Hassan was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2007. He is Professor and Associate Department Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and also Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining A&M September 1986, he worked for seven years at Babcock & Wilcox Company, Virginia. His research is in thermal hydraulics, reactor safety, accident analyses, advanced nuclear reactors and aerosol dynamics. He is a fellow of both ANS and ASME, and awarded 2003 George Westinghouse Gold Medal award, 2004 Thermal Hydraulics Technical Achievement award and 2001 Glenn Murphy award of the American Association for Engineering Education. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nuclear Engineering and Design Journal. He supported NRC's research division in certification of AP600, ARC 700 and participated in the Phenomena Identification and Ranking Table panel of high temperature gas cooled reactors.

David L. Hetrick

B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1947)
M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1950)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1954)

Dr. Hetrick became a part-time Panel member in 1972. During his career as a physicist and nuclear engineer, Dr. Hetrick has worked at Rockwell International and as a consultant for numerous organizations including General Atomics, the Marquardt Corporation, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in Aldermaston, England, the University of Bologna in Italy, the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency in Cuernavaca, Mexico, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has taught physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and California State University at Northridge. He retired after 29 years as professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Arizona.

Thomas J. Hirons

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame (1960)
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University (1966)

Dr. Hirons was appointed to the panel as a part-time technical judge in 2008. He worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 32 years in a wide range of technical and management positions. His experience involved a number of Reactor and Technology areas, including more than 10 years in the Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Safeguards & Security Programs. He served for 8 years (1986-93) as Division Leader of the Nuclear Technology & Engineering Division, as well as Program Director for Nuclear Programs. More recently, his experience included work on Environmental Management, Yucca Mountain, WIPP, and Hanford Tank Remediation. He also served as a Licensing Project Manager with the AEC (1973-75), and as Special Scientific Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy (1980-82). Before coming to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

James F. Jackson

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah (1961)
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, MIT (1962)
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, UCLA (1969)

Dr. Jackson was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2006. For the previous 30 years, he had been associated with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, including serving as the Laboratory's Deputy Director for 12 years. He held a number of other technical leadership positions, with an early focus in the area of nuclear reactor safety. This included several research projects funded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that developed advanced accident analysis computer codes. As Deputy Director, he had oversight responsibility for a wide range of nuclear programs, operations, and facilities. Prior to Los Alamos, Dr. Jackson worked on nuclear reactor safety at Argonne National Laboratory, space nuclear power development at Atomics International, and taught nuclear engineering at Brigham Young University. He has authored or co-authored over 50 technical papers, primarily in the safety analysis area. He received the Department of Energy's E. O. Lawrence Award in 1983, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Alex S. Karlin

B.A., Grinnell College (1971)
J.D., Washington University School of Law (1974)

Judge Karlin was appointed as a full-time legal member of the panel in the spring of 2004. Before his appointment, Judge Karlin served for seven years as the associate general counsel of British Nuclear Fuels Limited, handling regulatory, litigation, and contractual matters. Between 1988 and 1997, he was of counsel in the environmental section of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, D.C., counseling and representing clients on RCRA, CERCLA, NPDES, TSCA, and NEPA matters. Judge Karlin also served as an attorney/advisor in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency handling hazardous waste and water enforcement cases and as an environmental mediator with Clean Sites, Inc., a nonprofit entity. He started his career as a litigator in Dubuque, Iowa, with the law firm of O'Connor, Thomas, Wright, Hammer, Bertsch & Norby and also spent six years in the environmental law department of Shell Oil Company. Judge Karlin has published numerous articles and taught professional workshops and classes in environmental law.

William E. Kastenberg

B.S., Engineering, UCLA (1962)
M.S., Engineering, UCLA (1963)
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of California at Berkeley (1966)

Dr. Kastenberg was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2007. For the previous 41 years he was a Professor in the University of California System, first at UCLA (1966-1994) and then at Berkeley (1995-2007) where he retired as the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Engineering. In 1990, he was appointed by the Governor of California to the Independent Safety Committee for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, and served for 10 years. Dr. Kastenberg has taught courses on risk assessment and management, engineering ethics, nuclear reactor analysis and safety, energy and the environment, and applied mathematics. His research interests include the development and application of risk assessment and risk management methods for complex technological and natural systems. More recently, he has focused on ethics and the impact of technology on society, multi-stakeholder decision-making, the development of new paradigms for defining the risk of complex systems, and the quantification of uncertainty. Dr. Kastenberg has authored or co-authored over 150 published papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1990 and the American Nuclear Society in 1978. He has won distinguished teaching awards from the American Society for Engineering Education, the Engineering Graduate Students' Association at UCLA, and the American Nuclear Society.

Charles N. Kelber

Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Before joining the Panel as a full-time member in 1990, Dr. Kelber was the Panel's Senior Technical Advisor from 1988 to 1990. Upon his retirement in 2005, he was appointed as a part-time Panel member. He also served in various senior technical management positions in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research at the Atomic Energy Commission and at the NRC. Before joining the Commission in 1973, Dr. Kelber was a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory for 18 years. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the American Physical Society. Dr. Kelber was awarded the Commission's Meritorious Service Award in 1976.

Michael F. Kennedy

B.S., Physics, Canisius College (1970)
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia (1973)
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia (1978)

Dr. Kennedy was appointed to the Panel as a full-time technical judge in 2008. Prior to his appointment, Judge Kennedy worked for over 30 years in the nuclear industry with a primary focus on licensing and safety analysis for current generation light water reactors, advanced reactor designs, and fuel cycle facilities. During his career, he has worked for various consulting companies, nuclear utility organizations, reactor vendors, and Argonne National Laboratory. Throughout his career, he has held positions of technical leadership or management. Dr. Kennedy has provided technical support to the NRC in the license renewal area, performing safety analysis reviews for NRR, and updating regulatory guidance documents for RES and NMSS. Prior to this, he was involved in performing Integrated Safety Assessments for a number of fuel cycle facilities as well as supporting development of the license application for a centrifuge enrichment facility. Dr. Kennedy was a guest lecturer in light water reactor safety analysis for a course sponsored by the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer in Dubrovnik. He has authored technical papers on nuclear safety and the application of information technology to managing configuration data for nuclear power plants.

Kaye D. Lathrop

Dr. Lathrop was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2006. At the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he developed both computer codes for the prediction of neutron and photon distributions in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons and also reactor safety analysis codes for thermal and fast reactors. While at Los Alamos, he also led the Computing Division and the Engineering Sciences Directorate. At Stanford, Dr. Lathrop was responsible for the construction and operational commissioning of the Stanford Linear Collider and taught physics courses. After retirement from Stanford, he served five years on the University of California President's Council assisting in the scientific and technical oversight of the Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos Laboratories.

Robert Bruce Matthews

B.S., Metallurgy, Penn State (1964)
M.S., Materials Science, University of Denver (1967)
Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Wales (1970)

Dr. Matthews was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2008 and has over thirty-five years of scientific and engineering experience in nuclear technologies with a primary focus on nuclear materials, nuclear reactor fuels, nuclear facility operations, and nuclear safety. He worked at national laboratories as a scientist, line manager, and project leader and has been involved in programs in stockpile stewardship, nuclear materials disposition, environmental management, and space and terrestrial nuclear power systems. While at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was Director of the Nuclear Materials Technology Division with overall responsibility for plutonium facilities and operations. He also served as a Member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board from 2002 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society.

Lawrence G. McDade

B.A., Economics, Boston College (1970)
J.D., Boston College Law School (1973)

Judge McDade was appointed as an Administrative Judge (Legal) for the Panel in January 2005. Mr. McDade served six years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a military defense counsel representing military personnel who were tried by courts martial for various criminal offenses; a military prosecutor advising on all criminal and administrative law matters arising in an overseas combat command; and a military judge presiding over military criminal case trials in the northeast United States. After leaving active duty in 1979, in addition to continuing to serve for 14 years as a military judge in the Army Reserve, Mr. McDade was employed for more than 25 years at the Department of Justice (DOJ). During his DOJ tenure, either directly or as a supervisor, Mr. McDade was involved in much of the innovative enforcement litigation brought pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and other Federal consumer protection statutes, including the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Hazardous Substances Act, and National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. While employed at DOJ, Mr. McDade's performance was recognized with the Department's Distinguished Service Award and was also repeatedly recognized with the John Marshall Award, which is presented annually by the Attorney General to recognize the outstanding litigation achievement of the year by DOJ attorneys. Also while employed at DOJ, Mr. McDade participated in the Office of Personnel Management's Senior Executive Service Federal Candidate Development Program.

Alice C. Mignerey

B.S. University of Rochester (1971)
M.S. University of Rochester (1973)
Ph.D. University of Rochester (1975)

Dr. Mignerey was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2006. As a professor of Chemistry at the University of Maryland since 1979, Dr. Mignerey specializes in Nuclear Chemistry, with research programs in basic nuclear reactions and the applications of nuclear analytical techniques to environmental problems. She has studied the dating and characterization of ground waters in Southern Maryland using accelerator mass spectrometry. Through her research on nuclear reactions, she has participated in experimental programs at many of the national laboratories, most recently the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Mignerey has served as the Chair of the Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology of the American Chemical Society and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society. Dr. Mignerey spent three years as a part-time program officer for Nuclear Physics in the Physics Division of the National Science Foundation. She has also served as a member of the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee, which provides guidance to the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy on matters relating to Nuclear Science research.

Thomas S. Moore

B.A., Miami University (Ohio) (1968)
J.D., Ohio State University (1972)

Judge Moore was appointed to the ASLBP in 1991 after a distinguished 10-year career as an administrative judge on the Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board. On February 25, 2002, he became the Panel's Deputy Chief Administration Judge. Judge Moore was formerly in private practice in the firm of Volpe, Boskey & Lyons, worked in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice, served as administrative assistant to the governor of Ohio, and clerked for Judge Miller on the Sixth Circuit before joining the NRC in 1980.

Kenneth L. Mossman

B.S., Wayne State University (1968)
M.S., University of Tennessee (1970)
Ph.D., University of Tennessee (1973)
M.Ed., University of Maryland (1988)

Dr. Mossman was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2008. He is Professor of Health Physics in the School of Life Sciences and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Center for the Study of Law, Science and Technology at Arizona State University in Tempe. Dr. Mossman's research interests include the biological effects of low level radiation, radiation exposure in pregnancy, health effects of environmental radon, radiological risk assessment and risk management, and radiation protection and public policy. Dr. Mossman has received several national awards for his work in radiological health and safety including the Elda Anderson Award, and the Marie Curie Gold Medal and Founders Award from the Health Physics Society. From 1996-1998, Dr. Mossman served as a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Health Physics Society. In 2003, Dr. Mossman was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Mossman has more than 160 publications in the open literature.

William M. Murphy

B.S., Earth Science, University of California, Santa Cruz (1974)
M.S., Geology, University of Oregon (1977)
Ph.D., Geology, University of California, Berkeley (1985)

Dr. Murphy was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2005. He is an Associate Professor of Geological and Environmental Sciences at California State University, Chico. His research focuses on the geochemistry of gas-water-rock interactions, including studies of the behavior of radioisotopes in the environment. From 1988 to 2000, Dr. Murphy conducted research and provided technical assistance on behalf of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission at the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses in San Antonio, Texas. Previously he worked as a scientist in support of the Basalt Waste Isolation Project at Hanford, Washington. Dr. Murphy is presently a member of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.

Frederick W. Oliver

B.S., Morgan State University (1962)
M.S., Howard University (1965)
Ph.D., Howard University (1972)

Dr. Oliver was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2007. He served as professor of physics for thirty-seven years at Morgan State University and chaired the physics department from 1979 to 1995 and 1999 to 2006. He was the University's Radiation Safety Officer for fifteen years. He has authored or co-authored over 70 scientific papers and abstracts, primarily in nuclear science applications, and he served as principal investigator on 24 research grants from various federal agencies. In addition, he received numerous research appointments as research scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Maryland, NASA, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, and the Army Research Laboratory.

William H. Reed

B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology (1965)
Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1969)

Dr. Reed was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2006. He spent many years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, serving as Deputy Director of both the Theoretical (T) Division and the Applied Physics (X) Division. He performed basic research in computational methods in neutron transport theory and nuclear reactor safety, leading the team that developed the TRAC code for reactor safety analysis. Dr. Reed spent several years working for the Georgia Power Company at Plant Vogtle, and he also was leader of a group at the Savannah River Laboratory that was responsible for performing the safety analysis of production reactors. Dr. Reed also served for several years as head of the DOE computational program known as the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI).

Alan S. Rosenthal

A.B., University of Pennsylvania (1948)
LL.B., Yale University (1951)

Judge Rosenthal has been a part-time member of the Panel since 1999. Previously, he served as a member and chairman of the Personnel Appeals Board of the General Accounting Office; as chairman and chief administrative judge of the AEC/NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Panel; and as assistant chief of the Appellate Section of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. Immediately following law school graduation, he was the law clerk to a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has taught a seminar in nuclear law and regulation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Lester S. Rubenstein

B.S., University of Arizona (1953)
M.S., Carnegie Institute of Technology (1962)

Judge Rubenstein was appointed to the Panel as a part-time member in 1990. Before joining the Panel, he served in various leadership capacities with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, including assistant director for Region IV reactors, NRR; director, Systems Division and Standardization, NRR; and assistant director, Division of Systems Integration, NRR. Before joining the Atomic Energy Commission in 1967, he worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a researcher and for TRW and Westinghouse. Judge Rubenstein has written several articles and papers and lectured on the policies and licensing procedures of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Paul S. Ryerson

B.A., Wesleyan University (1968)
J.D., Columbia Law School (1971)

Judge Ryerson was appointed a full-time legal member of the Panel in March 2008. Previously, Judge Ryerson practiced law as a litigation partner with the firm of Jones Day in Washington, D.C., and before that as a partner with the law firm of Arnold & Porter. His practice concentrated on complex litigation and alternative dispute resolution, and he frequently taught courses for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy on trial skills and taking depositions. Following law school, where he served as a notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review, he clerked for United States District Judge Jack B. Weinstein.

William W. Sager

B.S., Duke University (1976)
M.S., University of Hawaii (1979)
Ph.D., University of Hawaii (1983)

Dr. Sager was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2006. He has been an academic researcher and professor at Texas A&M University since 1983. His areas of research specialty include oceanography, marine geology, and earth sciences. He has authored and co-authored over 200 research articles, papers, and abstracts and has participated on 37 oceanographic research cruises. He currently holds the Jane and R. Ken Williams '45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science, Education, and Technology and was awarded a distinguished achievement citation in 2003 by the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M.

David R. Schink

B.A., Pomona College (1952)
M.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1953)
M.S., Stanford University (1958)
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (1962)

Dr. Schink has been a part-time member of the Panel since 1974. A professor of oceanography and a former associate dean of the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University, Dr. Schink has written monographs and professional papers on marine geochemistry, silicon, radium, radon, and early digenesis. Dr. Schink has also held teaching and research positions at the Palo Alto Laboratory, Teledyne Isotopes, the University of Rhode Island, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and Stanford University. In addition, Dr. Schink has served on several advisory panels for the National Science Foundation and the United Nations.

Ronald M. Spritzer

B.A. Grinnell College (1976)

J.D. University of Pennsylvania (1981)

Michael G. Stevenson

B.S., Engineering Science., University of Texas (1964)
Ph.D., University of Texas (1968)

Dr. Stevenson was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2008. He worked in reactor safety computational methods development for the Babcock and Wilcox Company from 1968 to 1971 and for Argonne National Laboratory from 1971 to 1974. He moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1974 and became Group Leader for Reactor Safety Analysis in 1975. At Los Alamos, he led a number of reactor safety research and analysis projects, mostly for the NRC, and held a succession of Laboratory management positions including Energy Division Leader and then Associate Director for Energy and Environment from 1991 until his retirement in 1993.

Nicholas G. Trikouros

B.S., Fordham University (1969)
M.S., New York University (1972)
Eng., Polytechnic University (1986)

Judge Trikouros currently is a full-time technical member of the Panel, having served previously as a part-time technical judge. Judge Trikouros has over thirty years' experience in the nuclear industry, including as President/Founder of Panlyon Technologies, a professional consulting company involved in nuclear plant design, licensing, and safety analysis, and as the Manager of Safety and Risk Analysis and in senior engineering positions with GPU Nuclear Corporation. His areas of expertise include nuclear plant design basis and licensing, reactor systems, emergency operating procedures, transient and accident analyses, containment performance, plant operations engineering, and probabilistic risk assessment. Judge Trikouros provided onsite technical support during the Three Mile Island, Unit 2 accident and participated extensively in the post-accident evaluation effort. Judge Trikouros has served as an adjunct professor at Rutgers University providing graduate instruction on nuclear energy technology as well as on a variety of nuclear industry groups and committees, including a number of Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Advisory Groups, the NRC/Industry Technical Advisory Group for once-through steam generator testing, and the EPRI Utility Steering Committee's Analysis and Testing Subcommittee for Advanced Reactors. He is the author of numerous technical articles on transient analysis and reactor safety and worked as a consultant to the Department of Energy's International Nuclear Safety Program in Ukraine.

Richard E. Wardwell

B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Vermont (1968)
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Maine (1973)
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Colorado State University (1980)

Dr. Wardwell was appointed to the Panel in June 2005 as an Administrative Judge (Technical). From 1976 until 1982, he served as a faculty member at the University of Maine and Colorado State. His research experience related to the engineering field behavior of waste materials and long-term deformation of disposal facilities. Before coming to the NRC, Dr. Wardwell was a private consultant to industry and government specializing in the geoscience fields of geotechnical, groundwater, geologic, and hydrologic engineering. For five years, Dr. Wardwell served as Chair of the Board of Environmental Protection appointed by the Governor of Maine. In addition to over thirty years of academic experience with engineering problems related to environmental geoscience engineering, his research and consulting work has focused on quantifying the geoenvironmental behavior of waste disposal facilities, evaluating environmental impacts and remediation alternatives for waste facilities, and designing groundwater and surface water control systems. In addition to numerous consulting reports, Dr. Wardwell has authored more than 30 published technical papers on the topics of water movement in materials, field behavior of waste materials, mining and mill tailings operation, and the geotechnical behavior of earthen structures.

Craig M. White

B.A., Geology, Earlham College (1967)
M.A., Geology, University of Wisconsin (1970)
Ph.D., Geology, University of Oregon (1980)

Dr. White was appointed to the Panel as a part-time technical judge in 2007. He has been a professor in the Geosciences Department at Boise State University since 1980, where his research has focused on topics related to continental volcanism. For the last ten years he has worked on a variety of problems in the Snake River Plain volcanic field, including the interaction of magmas with groundwater and the transport of magmas in the plumbing systems of basaltic volcanoes. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the American Chemical Society.

Ann Marshall Young

Judge Young has been a full-time member of the Panel since 2000. Before being appointed to the Panel, Judge Young served as an administrative law judge for the Tennessee Department of State, Administrative Procedures Division; her experience also includes being an adjunct lecturer at Vanderbilt University School of Law, and assistant general counsel with the Tennessee Department of Health and Environment. Judge Young has served as president of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges; on the Council of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice section of the American Bar Association; and as a member of the Executive Committee, National Conference of Administrative Law Judges, ABA Judicial Division, and of the Editorial Advisory Board of the ABA Judges' Journal, among other activities. She has also written and spoken from time to time on subjects including administrative law, judicial ethics, and legal writing.

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