NRC NAMES ALLEN G. CROFF TO
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR WASTE
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has appointed Allen G. Croff to the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW).

The NRC established the ACNW in June 1988 to provide the Commission technical opinions, independent of NRC staff, on activities, programs, and key issues associated with the regulation, management, and safe disposal of radioactive waste.

Croff comes to the ACNW following 29 years with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His work at Oak Ridge included staff, line management, and program management positions concerning waste management research and development, analysis of nuclear fuel cycles and nuclear materials management, strategic planning, and program initiation. Croff’s professional experience includes creating the ORIGEN2 computer code, used world-wide to calculate radionuclide buildup and decay. He has also applied the code to nuclear material and waste characterization, risk analysis, and nuclear fuel cycle analysis.

Croff has developed and evaluated comprehensive, risk-based waste classification systems, culminating in chairing a committee of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements that issued comprehensive recommendations on such systems. He has also led and participated in national and international technical committees of the National Academy of Sciences, the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, and the Nuclear Development Committee of the Nuclear Energy Agency.

Croff earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1971, a Nuclear Engineer Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, and an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee in 1981.

The other ACNW members are Chairman B. John Garrick, Vice-Chairman Michael T. Ryan, Dr. George M. Hornberger, and Dr. Ruth F. Weiner.

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