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No. III-02-025		May 3, 2002
CONTACT:	Jan Strasma (630) 829-9663 Viktoria Mitlyng (630) 829-9662	E-mail: OPA3.RegionIII@nrc.gov
NEW NRC REGION III PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER Printable Version
Viktoria T. Mitlyng, an experienced international journalist and public affairs specialist, has joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III as a public affair officer. She replaces Pam Alloway-Mueller, who left the agency in January. The regional office, located in Lisle, Illinois, covers eight states in the midwest. For the past four years she has been a public relations consultant and account supervisor for two Chicago-based firms, the Millenson Collabrative and Public Communication, Inc., working with health, educational and arts organizations. Her work also included managing communications programs for such Chicago area institutions as the Shedd Aquarium, the Brookfield Zoo and the Morton Arboretum. She was senior media advisor to the press attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, in 1997-98. She previously was a reporter for the Moscow Times, an English-language daily in Moscow. Between 1992 and 1994, she ran a journalism program for writers from nuclear and near-nuclear countries, coordinated coverage of international security issues and wrote about politics, the military and nuclear complexes in the former Soviet Union for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine. Mitlyng has a master's degree in French and Russian literature from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's degree in French and Russian literature from Amherst College. Mitlyng, her husband, son and daughter live in Naperville. She can be reached by telephone at (630) 829-9662, by fax at (630)515-1096 or by e-mail at vtm@nrc.gov.
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