NRC APPOINTS BRUCE MALLETT, LOREN PLISCO
TO SENIOR REGIONAL MANAGEMENT POSITIONS
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has appointed Bruce S. Mallett as Regional Administrator for the agency’s Region IV activities, and has appointed Loren R. Plisco as Deputy Regional Administrator for Region II. The appointments are effective in June.

The NRC’s Region IV office in Arlington, Texas, deals with nuclear power plants and other NRC licensees in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and U.S. territories in the Pacific region. The Region II office, located in Atlanta, Georgia, deals with licensees in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Dr. Mallett succeeds Ellis W. Merschoff, who will become the Commission’s Chief Information Officer. Dr. Mallett joined the NRC in 1980 as a health physicist in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS) at Headquarters. From 1981 to 1987, he served as Chief, Nuclear Materials Licensing Section. From 1987 to 1990, he was the Chief, Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards Branch, Region III, in Lisle, Illinois. In 1990, Dr. Mallett was selected for the position of Deputy Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards, Region II. Since that time, he has held progressively more responsible positions in the region, including director of three divisions, and in 2000, Dr. Mallett was appointed as Deputy Regional Administrator. Dr. Mallett received a B.S. degree in Biology and an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from Wright State University. He received his Ph.D. in Health Physics from Purdue University.

Mr. Plisco joined the NRC in 1982 as a Reactor Inspector in Region I, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. He later became the Resident Inspector and Senior Resident Inspector at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station. In 1987, he transferred to NRC Headquarters where he held progressively more responsible positions in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) including Senior Operations Engineer; Senior Assistant to the Deputy Director; and Chief, Performance Evaluation Section. In 1992, he served two years in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations and then returned to NRR as Chief, Operating Reactor Inspection Programs Section. In 1997, Mr. Plisco was appointed Deputy Director, Division of Reactor Projects, Region II, and quickly moved up to the Director position. Mr. Plisco received a B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and an M.S. degree in Technical Management from Johns Hopkins University.

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