Project Manager-Baltimore District

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Co Author: Decommissioning Opportunities: Two Army Deactivated Nuclear Power Plants

Ms. Barber is a project manager with over 20 years of experience in environmental compliance and project management. Professional Engineer proficient in environmental remediation and design work. Vast experience administering remediation and construction contracts (fixed price and cost reimbursable) up to 70 million dollars, including supervising fieldwork. Actively managing several deactivated nuclear power plant decommissioning projects, plus projects associated with the USACE FUSRAP project.

Deputy Decommissioning Officer

Southern California Edison

Co Author: What Today’s Decommissioning Business Models Mean for the US Nuclear Industry

Mr. Bilovsky is Deputy Decommissioning Officer for Southern California Edison where he leads the spent fuel transfer and decommissioning oversight at SONGS. As a 20+ year nuclear industry veteran, he has spent most of his career in spent fuel management and decommissioning with previous positions as Executive Vice President for Siempelkamp Nuclear, where he was responsible for the Zion RV & RVI segmentation; and as Deputy Director General with Holtec where he was responsible for the initial phases of the Chernobyl spent fuel disposition project. He holds BS and MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Vice President, Business Development, Nuclear and Environment

AECOM

Co Author: Road Map to Efficient Decommissioning Strategies: Key Markers for Success

Mr. Brister is Vice President Business Development, with AECOM’s Nuclear & Environment business unit and is responsible for applying his understanding of the nuclear market, client needs and competitive position to build partnerships, and pursue and capture new work to align with AECOM’s goal to grow the development of the commercial nuclear D&D market. In August 2018 he relocated back to the United States from two years in London, where he was VP, International Business Development with AECOM Construction Services. With over 35 years of power experience, he was responsible for developing power-related business opportunities around the globe for AECOM.

Prior to AECOM, Mr. Brister was the Chief Business Development Officer for Babcock & Wilcox’s Generation mPower Small Modular Reactor where he was responsible for the global order book for the technology spending significant time in China and the United Kingdom. Prior to mPower he was Vice President for CH2M’s nuclear power organization. He was responsible for developing nuclear power-related business opportunities for CH2M around the world. Mr. Brister’s work in the commercial nuclear utility industry includes a Prefeasibility Study for Nuclear Power for the Energy Market Authority in Singapore and several years in Abu Dhabi working on the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation’s nuclear new build program. He has held various management roles at multiple nuclear power plants in the United States as well as consulting roles in the UK, Poland, UAE, Canada, and Korea. He has also presented strategies on new nuclear program development to countries interested in developing commercial nuclear power programs at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.
Prior to CH2M he developed new nuclear program contracts, acquisition, leasing and management services opportunities for additional nuclear generating assets and supporting businesses for Entergy’s nuclear fleet in the United States. He has been involved in more than twenty nuclear power plant and corporate acquisition opportunities, multiple nuclear new build programs and has successfully concluded $23 Billion (USD) in nuclear focused transactions. He has conducted nuclear power feasibility studies, risk analyses, reactor vendor negotiations, and cost analysis of a wide range of nuclear technologies, and state and federal level regulatory strategy development supporting nuclear power.
A member of the Civilian Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee to the US Secretary of Commerce and the international committee for the American Nuclear Society, Mr. Brister has a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey and is a former US NRC licensed nuclear operator at Grand Gulf Nuclear Station.

President

the Zero Gravity Group

Co Author: Progress Toward Transportation, Packaging, and Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Attorney, manager, and conflict management specialist with over twenty years’ experience in the legal, policy, and technical aspects of the licensing and regulation of the use of nuclear materials, as well as with the preparation of environmental reviews for energy and natural resources projects. Mr. Cameron’s expertise in conflict management, community outreach and interest-based negotiation strategy were developed during his tenure as the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Dispute Resolution Specialist. His conflict management work was complemented by his tenure as the Assistant General Counsel at the NRC. In this capacity, Mr. Cameron and his staff advised the NRC staff and the Commission on the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) including environmental justice policy; the rulemaking process; the Federal Advisory Committee Act; and Section 106 consultation with Tribal governments under the National Historic Preservation Act. He also was the General Counsel’s liaison and advisor on Tribal law. He is thoroughly familiar with the NRC licensing process, including the existing and proposed decommissioning regulatory framework.

Mr. Cameron’s combination of legal and analytical skills, his solid grounding in the technical aspects of the use of nuclear materials, and his conflict management skills, bring a unique holistic approach a wide variety of private sector and government needs and issues. Mr. Cameron has been in private practice since 2010, providing legal advice on energy and environmental issues, and on the design and implementation of communications strategies. Some of his most recent projects include facilitation of the public scoping meetings for the Environmental Impact Statement on the Holtec Intl. license application to the NRC for an interim storage facility; development and presentation of a National Webinar on tribal law and the transportation of nuclear materials.

USNRC Retired, Nuclear Safety Consultant

Talisman International LLC

Co Author: Road Map to Efficient Decommissioning Strategies: Key Markers for Success

Mr. Camper is an experienced health physicist, radiation safety expert, environmental remediation expert and executive with 40 years of professional experience with various aspects of the nuclear industry within both the private and public sectors including: radiation safety; medical, research and academic uses; commercial uses; industrial uses; environmental assessment and management; low-level waste oversight; uranium recovery; decommissioning of reactors and complex material sites; spent fuel management and performance assessment. Mr. Camper has been very involved both nationally and internationally and increasingly has focused on the nexus between nuclear materials uses, energy production and related environmental concerns as well as stakeholder outreach and coordination.

Mr. Camper is the President and Executive Consultant with Advoco Professional Services, LLC. Advoco provides a broad spectrum of professional consulting services focused on environmental assessment and remediation, health physics issues, nuclear regulatory policy, environmental conflict resolution, communications strategy, facilitation and stakeholder outreach, nuclear technical issues, NEPA support, Federal and State agencies coordination and executive management. Mr. Camper is also associated with Talisman International, LLC as a senior nuclear safety consultant dealing with a broad spectrum of nuclear issues.

Principal

Carignan & Associates, LLC

Co Author: Decommissioning Cost Estimation Challenges

Mr. Carignan has over thirty-five years of progressive and diverse nuclear experience from reactor operations and training to project management and decommissioning. He served six years in the Navy Nuclear Submarine program with a degree in Chemistry.

Mr. Carignan’s first experience in decommissioning was as the Operations Manager on the first U.S. large scale decommissioning: Shippingport Station Decommissioning Project. Since then, he has been involved in some aspect of many commercial and government decommissioning projects for the last 25 years both domestically and internationally. He has worked for General Electric, MAC Technical Services, Project Services Group, and TLG Services. Mr. Carignan also worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority, first as part of an oversight group to improve TVA’s overall nuclear performance after all the TVA nuclear plants were shut down due to management issues. While with TVA, he also developed their self-assessment program to improve operations performance and INPO readiness.

In January 2015, Mr. Carignan formed Carignan & Associates LLC to provide support services to the nuclear industry focusing on Decommissioning cost estimating, due diligence, Operational Readiness, and management support. His company has provided due diligence, planning, and cost estimating support for numerous projects including Nuclear Ship Savannah, SONGS, Humboldt Bay, Saxton, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, EDF, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as a number of confidential clients.

For over 20 years, Mr. Carignan has been providing decommissioning training and consulting on Project Management and Planning, Cost Estimating, Risk Management and Environmental Health and Safety, and other select decommissioning topical areas for both the IAEA and Argonne National Laboratory to over 2000 participants.

Vice President, Engineering and Licensing

NAC International, Inc.

Co Author: Lessons Learned from Completed and Active Decommissioning Programs

George Carver is Vice President, Engineering and Licensing for NAC International. He is responsible for all design, engineering processes, licensing actions and engineering deliverables in support of all NAC dry cask storage and/or transportation projects, and he is responsible for coordinating the activities of a broad spectrum of engineering professionals in this capacity.
Mr. Carver has over 30 years of engineering and design experience, with over 25 years focused in the nuclear fuel handling and spent fuel cask industry. He has been responsible for engineering, design and licensing activities for 11 systems certified by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering technology from the Southern College of Technology.

Principal Investigator

RCNET, a National Science Foundation Center focused on nuclear technical training

Co Author: Developing a Nuclear Workforce Pipeline

Currently, Kevin Cooper is the Dean of Advanced Technology at Indian River State College where he leads academic programs in engineering, computer science, and digital media. In addition, he is responsible for economic development and grant divisions of the college including serving as Principal Investigator of an NSF Center focused on creating a national nuclear technician pipeline.
Prior to joining IRSC, Kevin was in charge of Motorola’s advanced materials laboratory. This lab developed green manufacturing solutions and chemistries for the semiconductor, battery, and solar industries. Chemistries developed in Motorola’s advanced material lab were baseline components for Motorola, AMD, ST, and Philips manufacturing facility. While working for Motorola, Kevin had the opportunity to live and work around the world including years in United States, France, Germany, and China. Prior to joining Motorola, Kevin obtained a doctorate in nanotechnology from Arizona State University and degrees in chemical engineering and applied physics from Georgia Institute of Technology. Through, these efforts Kevin holds over 20 patents and has published over 40 journal articles.

Manager, Decommissioning

Exelon Generation LLC

Co Author: What Today’s Decommissioning Business Models Mean for the US Nuclear Industry

Jeff Dunlap is the manager of Decommissioning for Exelon. In this role he is responsible for the implementation of decommissioning trust fund NRC reporting, cost estimation, and the cost reimbursement process. He is also responsible for Governance and Oversight of the Decommissioning Management Model Process. This includes the development of procedures, and oversight of the implementation of the decommissioning planning process at Exelon’s sites preparing for decommissioning
Jeff has 24 years of experience working in the nuclear power industry, including positions in Safety Analysis, Fuel Procurement, and Project Management. He has a BA from Augustana College, an MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Director of Nuclear Policy and Strategy

Xcel Energy

Co Author: Progress Toward Transportation, Packaging, and Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Pamela Gorman Prochaska is the Director of Nuclear Policy and Strategy for Xcel Energy. Pam began her career with Xcel Energy almost 30 years ago in the operations department at the Prairie Island nuclear plant. During the first half of her career she spent time in various plant positions including project management, regulatory, communications and training.

In 2008 she moved to the operations side of the company and was the Community and Government Relations Manager for Southeast Minnesota. Two years ago Pam came back to nuclear in her current role where she interfaces with governmental and industry organizations at all levels that enact, implement or influence policies that impact Xcel Energy’s nuclear power plants and used fuel storage.

Pam is a graduate of the University of Minnesota- Duluth where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Secondary Math Education.

Vice President Nuclear Regulatory Affairs and President & Chief Nuclear Officer, GPU Nuclear

FirstEnergy

Co Author: Regulatory Oversight of Decommissioning Trust Funds

Mr. Greg Halnon is the FirstEnergy Vice President Nuclear Regulatory Affairs and President & CNO of GPU Nuclear.

Mr. Halnon began his career in 1981 as a system engineer for the fossil fleet at Florida Power Corporation in St. Petersburg Florida. He later moved into nuclear as a system engineer for the Crystal River Nuclear Plant in HVAC and mechanical-thermal systems. Mr. Halnon has over 30 years in engineering, operations, regulatory affairs, quality, and line management of nuclear power stations. He has held two Senior Reactor Operator licenses and is a registered professional mechanical engineer in the states of Florida and Ohio.

In his career;
Mr. Halnon has served as a plant general manager, general engineering manager and quality director at various nuclear units and fleets. He has served on several Small Modular Reactor advisory boards and chaired two Industry SMR Consortiums.

Greg presently serves as the nuclear regulatory officer for FirstEnergy Corp. He is also responsible for the leadership of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 decommissioning and Post Defueled Monitored Storage. He has served 7 terms as the National RUG chairman and 3 years as executive sponsor of the industry Reactor Oversight Process Taskforce.

Mr. Halnon received his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Central Florida after doing undergraduate agricultural technology research at Virginia Tech. He completed the INPO Senior Plant Managers Professional Development in 1997. He is a qualified ABET accreditation evaluator and a life member of the American Nuclear Society.

Senior Decommissioning Engineer

Exelon Generation LLC

Co Author: Road Map to Efficient Decommissioning Strategies: Key Markers for Success

As Senior Decommissioning Engineer for Exelon Generation, Leslie is responsible for the development and implementation of Exelon’s management process and licensing actions for decommissioning.

Leslie has more than 25 years of experience with the company and over 35 years of experience in the energy industry. She is currently in Exelon's Corporate Decommissioning Organization. In this role, she is responsible for developing and maintaining the Exelon Decommissioning Management Model (EDMM). The model provides forward planning strategies and licensing actions to safely, efficiently, and economically progress through the decommissioning process once a decision is made to permanently shutdown a nuclear facility. She also oversees decommissioning licensing activities for Exelon facilities that have entered the decommissioning planning process.
Leslie joined the company as an intern engineer while attending the University of Illinois (Chicago) and has held positions of increasing expertise in plant operation, emergency preparedness, regulatory compliance, nuclear strategy, and licensing. She was previously licensed by the NRC as a Senior Reactor Operator and served as a Control Room Supervisor/Shift Technical Advisor at Zion Nuclear Power Station.
Leslie has also worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the University of Illinois in their Energy Resource Center.

Leslie holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. She also completed the Exelon Leadership Institute through Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Chief, Radiation Safety Office-Baltimore District

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Co Author: Decommissioning Opportunities: Two Army Deactivated Nuclear Power Plants

Hans B. Honerlah Health Physicist - Chief Radiation Safety Office/Program Manager for the Baltimore District Radiological Health Physics Regional Center of Expertise Environmental and Munitions Design Center Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Serves as the Program Manager for the Regional Center of Expertise (RCX) for Health Physics in the Baltimore District USACE. The RCX team supports decommissioning and remedial action efforts for the Deactivated Nuclear Power Plant Program, Formerly Used Sites Remedial Action Program, Formerly Used Defense Sites, EPA Superfund Program, and other Federal Customers. The RCX team has supported radiological surveys and removals worldwide for multiple Federal Agencies. The RCX team plans, organizes, conducts, directs, or reviews surveys of radiation areas. In addition, the team assesses the level of risk associated with the radiation hazards of operations performed within mission areas, as well as interpret and apply Federal and State Regulations, Army Regulations, and USACE Regulations for radiation safety and remediation activities. Mr. Honerlah serves as an active member of the USACE Radiation Safety Support Team, assisting USACE District’s worldwide by addressing any radiological questions and concerns.
Mr. Honerlah holds a B.S. Health Professions, Southwest Texas State University and achieved Certified Hazardous Material Manager (CHMM), Master Level, Feb 2001

Director Public and Government Affairs

Yankee Atomic Power Company

Co Author: Where State and Local Governments Fit in the Decommissioning Process

Eric Howes is the Director of Public and Government Affairs for Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company located in Wiscasset, Maine. Mr. Howes has been with Maine Yankee since 1993 working in the areas of federal, state, media, and community relations. He was instrumental in the formation of the Maine Yankee Community Advisory Panel which continues to be active 20 years after its inception in 1997. Mr. Howes was with Maine Yankee the last few years of plant operations, through plant decommissioning, and now for over 10 years of stand-alone Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation operations. Prior to Maine Yankee Mr. Howes served seven years as a State Office Representative for Maine’s United States Senator William S. Cohen. Mr. Howes holds a Master's Degree in public policy from the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service.

Transportation Security Specialist, Office of Nuclear Security & Incident Response

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Co Author: Progress Toward Transportation, Packaging, and Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Mr. Jackson joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2008. He is assigned to the Division of Physical and Cyber Security Policy (DPCP) in the office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response (NSIR). He is currently in the Fuel Cycles and Transportation Security Branch, working in Transportation Security Policy. His duties include the planning, coordination, and management of the development and implementation of Commission directed policies and programs for transportation security and physical protection of fissile and radioactive material during all phases of transportation. He conducts technical and regulatory reviews in support of regulatory programs, transportation route approvals, rulemaking support, and licensing. He coordinates activities that involve working within NSIR and other NRC Offices including the Office of International Programs, (OIP) Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), and Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS). He manages and supports partnership; outreach and coordination with US Government Agencies that include the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Agency, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, US Coast Guard FBI, and Department of State. Mr. Jackson also represents NSIR to the Commission’s Tribal Policy Working Group, supporting Tribal Policy development, implementation, and outreach for transportation security issues. He also works with the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency in developing international guidance for transportation security.

Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Jackson served on both active and reserve duty with the United States Coast Guard (USCG), His last position with the USCG was as the CG FEMA Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer (EPLO) to FEMA Region V (Great Lakes). He awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, and the Coast Guard Achievement Medal. He retired March 2014 after 34 years of service with the rank of Commander.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Nuclear Energy Institute

Co Author: Keynote Address: US Decommissioning Market and Opportunities

Maria Korsnick is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear industry’s policy organization in Washington, D.C.

Drawing on her engineering background, hands-on experience in reactor operations and a deep knowledge of energy policy and regulatory issues, Korsnick aims to increase understanding of nuclear energy’s economic and environmental benefits among policymakers and the public.

Before joining NEI, she was senior vice president of Northeast Operations for Exelon, responsible for overseeing operation of the Calvert Cliffs 1 and 2, R.E. Ginna, and Nine Mile Point 1 and 2 nuclear power plants.

Before Exelon, Korsnick served as chief nuclear officer (CNO) and acting chief executive officer at Constellation Energy Nuclear Group. She began her career at Constellation in 1986 and held positions of increasing responsibility, including engineer, operator, manager, site vice president, corporate vice president, and CNO.

Korsnick holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Maryland, and has held a Senior Reactor Operator license.

Attorney

Balch & Bingham LLP

Co Author: Regulatory Oversight of Decommissioning Trust Funds

Mr. Lovett counsels electric utility clients on a variety of regulatory and commercial issues involving generation development, acquisition, and decommissioning, electric transmission service, natural gas supply and transportation, wholesale power contracts, and retail rates. Among his utility clients, Alan represents nuclear facility owners and operators, including the license holder for some of the first new nuclear facility units to begin construction in several decades and purchasers of nuclear facilities entering decommissioning. In addition to representing clients before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Alan represents large investor-owned utilities in a variety of proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state public service commissions.

Partner

Morgan Lewis

Co Author: Regulatory Oversight of Decommissioning Trust Funds

John E. Matthews assists clients seeking regulatory approvals from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for first-of-its-kind commercial transactions involving nuclear power plants. He also advises on commercial issues relating to nuclear power plants, other nuclear assets, nuclear export controls, certain government contract matters, and NRC review of license transfers. Clients turn to John for guidance regarding decommissioning funding issues and foreign ownership, control or domination (FOCD) issues.

Senior Director, Fuel and Decommissioning Programs

Nuclear Energy Institute

Co Author: What Today’s Decommissioning Business Models Mean for the US Nuclear Industry

Rod McCullum has been working on regulatory issues at NEI since 1998. He has 30 years of nuclear engineering, licensing, management and regulatory policy experience. Currently, at NEI, he leads industry efforts to reduce business risks associated with used nuclear fuel management, commercial nuclear power plant decommissioning, emergent material degradation issues, and the introduction of accident tolerant fuels by directing broad scope technical and regulatory programs. He held prior positions in Government (with the Department of Energy) and Industry (at three commercial nuclear power plants). He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering (University of Cincinnati, 1985) and a Master of Business Administration degree (Lewis University, 2000).

Executive Director

Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition

Co Author: Where State and Local Governments Fit in the Decommissioning Process

A former Florida Public Service Commissioner (2006-2009), Katrina McMurrian currently serves as Executive Director of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition, an ad hoc organization representing the collective interests of member state utility regulators; other state, tribal, and local government officials; electric utilities with operating and shutdown reactors; and other experts on nuclear waste policy matters.
McMurrian serves on the Southwest Research Institute Board of Advisory Trustees and is a member of the American Nuclear Society, the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, and U.S. Women in Nuclear.
McMurrian received a Bachelor’s degree in finance and an MBA from Florida State University.

Director, Decommissioning and Used Fuel

Nuclear Energy Institute

Co Author: NRC Perspectives on Nuclear Decommissioning Operations and Rulemaking

Bruce Montgomery is currently Director, Decommissioning and Used Fuel at the Nuclear Energy Institute. Bruce has 41 years of commercial nuclear experience, beginning in the late 1970s at Bechtel where he worked on new plant licensing and the TMI-2 post-accident recovery project. He joined Baltimore Gas and Electric in 1982 where he worked in various licensing and engineering capacities at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. Bruce’s experience includes serving in a variety of roles, including a tour at INPO as an engineering evaluator, site engineering director at the Nine Mile Point and the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plants; and corporate roles at Constellation Energy Nuclear Group and Exelon responsible for fleet programs in quality assurance, emergency preparedness, security, and regulatory affairs. Bruce retired from Exelon in 2014 and joined NEI where was engaged in regulatory policy and in development of strategies to promote the commercial nuclear energy industry.

Bruce graduated from the US Naval Academy 1976 with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Engineering and is a member of the American Nuclear Society.

Director of License Renewal and Decommissioning

Duke Energy

Co Author: What Today’s Decommissioning Business Models Mean for the US Nuclear Industry

Rounette K. Nader is the Director of License Renewal and Decommissioning at Duke Energy. Nader is responsible for nuclear license renewal projects and decommissioning strategies for the Duke Energy fleet.

Prior to becoming Director of License Renewal and Decommissioning, Nader held positions in Oconee engineering, license renewal, new nuclear plant development, business planning and strategy, and nuclear policy since joining the company in 1992.

Nader earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of South Carolina and is a registered Professional Engineer in South Carolina.

President, CEO and Chief Nuclear Officer

Yankee Atomic Power Company

Co Author: Lessons Learned from Completed and Active Decommissioning Programs

Mr. Norton started his nuclear career as the Construction Manager at Maine Yankee in 1991 and held various management positions at the Plant during the operations and shutdown of the facility. Mr. Norton led the decommissioning of Maine Yankee, Connecticut Yankee and Yankee Rowe as well as the development of their respective dry fuel storage facilities. Of his 26 years of nuclear power plant operational and project management experience, the last 20 years have been associated with commercial nuclear decommissioning and spent fuel management. Mr. Norton has spent the last 16 years in the positions of President, CEO and Chief Nuclear Officer at Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co., Yankee Atomic Electric Company and Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company.
Mr. Norton serves as the Chair of the Decommissioning Plant Coalition; is a member of the Nuclear Energy Institute’s (NEI’s) Board of Directors and the NEI Integrated Used Fuel Management Working Group; is a member of the SONGS Nuclear Oversight Board and the Chair of the Fort Calhoun Decommissioning Oversight Committee.
Mr. Norton has a B.S. Engineering from Maine Maritime Academy.

Environmental Project Manager, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Co Author: NRC Perspectives on Nuclear Decommissioning Operations and Rulemaking

Ms. Quintero has been with the NRC since May 2006. She has led environmental reviews for new reactor licensing (South Texas Project), reactor license renewal (Nine Mile Point), and now for material licensing reviews. Jessie was the environmental project manager for the Continued Storage Generic Environmental Impact Statement and will be leading the NRC’s effort to update the Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Reactor Decommissioning. Prior to joining the NRC, her previous experience included waste management and environmental compliance with URS and SAIC.

Ms. Quintero earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Biosystems Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering and Science from Clemson University.

Chairman

Vermont Public Utility Commission

Co Author: Where State and Local Governments Fit in the Decommissioning Process

Anthony Roisman was appointed Chairman of the Public Utility Commission by Governor Phil Scott for a six-year term beginning on June 12, 2017. At the time of his appointment he was consulting with attorneys on environmental litigation, public participation before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and state regulatory agencies, and on the admissibility of expert testimony in complex litigation. In addition to his experience with energy, he has extensive experience litigating claims for injury from exposure to toxic substances. He has also served as Senior Staff Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (1977-1979), Chief of the Hazardous Waste Section and Special Litigator for Hazardous Waste in the Lands and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1979-1982), and Executive Director of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (1982-1987). He has been an Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow in Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and lectures frequently with the American Law Institute and others on expert witness admissibility and environmental law. He is a 1960 graduate of Dartmouth College and 1963 graduate of Harvard Law School.

Editor in Chief

ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums

Co Author: Decommissioning Opportunities: Two Army Deactivated Nuclear Power Plants

Chris Schneidmiller is Editor-in-Chief of the ExchangeMonitor Publications & Forums, encompassing the daily Weapons Complex Monitor Morning Brief and three weekly newsletters: Weapons Complex Monitor, RadWaste Monitor, and Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor. He has more than two decades of experience as a reporter and editor for news publications across the country, most recently as editor of Global Security Newswire, a Washington, D.C.-based online publication that covered international security and WMD proliferation issues.

Chris received his bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Texas in Austin, TX, and started his career as a reporter in Roswell, NM.

Executive Director

Radiation Safety & Control Services, Inc.

Co Author: Lessons Learned from Completed and Active Decommissioning Programs

Mr. Tarzia is one of the founding Principals and Corporate Executive Directors of Radiation Safety & Control Services, Inc. (RSCS). Over the past 38 years, Mr. Tarzia has held several technical and managerial positions at operating and decommissioning nuclear sites. As Director of RSCS since 1989, he has successfully managed a variety of high-risk radiological decommissioning projects for both Government and commercial nuclear installations. He received both a B.S. and MSc. in Radiological Sciences from the University of Massachusetts – Lowell and earned a M.B.A. from Southern New Hampshire University. Mr. Tarzia is currently a member of the NEI Task Force on Nuclear Decommissioning, the Chairman of the Governor-appointed New Hampshire State Radiation Advisory Committee, Past Chairman of the American Board of Health Physics, and President-Elect of the American Academy of Health Physics.

Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, Division of Decommissioning, Office of Nuclear Materials Security and Safeguards

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Co Author: NRC Perspectives on Nuclear Decommissioning Operations and Rulemaking

Bruce Watson is the Chief, of the Reactor Decommissioning Branch in the Division of Decommissioning Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

Bruce has been with the NRC since March 2004. He has extensive experience in decommissioning of reactors and materials sites and was the technical lead for the license terminations at Trojan, Maine Yankee, Rancho Seco and Big Rock Point. In May 2010, Bruce was appointed as the Chief, Reactor Decommissioning Branch, and is responsible for power and research reactor, complex materials and uranium decommissioning project management, licensing and inspection programs. He has extensive international decommissioning experience with the IAEA in the development of decommissioning safety guides, served as an expert missions to Georgia and an IRRS Mission to Switzerland and has provided reactor decommissioning workshops in Korea and Taiwan. Prior to joining the NRC, his previous experience included management of decommissioning projects at Rocky Flats and international projects in Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. Bruce has 20 years of reactor operating experience and served as the Radiation Safety Manager at Calvert Cliffs.

Bruce has a B.S. from Virginia Tech and is certified by the American Board of Health Physics. He has 40 years of experience in health physics, including over 25 years of management experience.

Environmental Program Coordinator

Praire Island Indian Community

Co Author: Progress Toward Transportation, Packaging, and Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Decommissioning Engineering Manager, Diablo Canyon Power Plant

Pacific Gas & Electric Company - PG&E

Co Author: Regulatory Oversight of Decommissioning Trust Funds

Mike Wright is a Decommissioning Engineering Manager for Pacific Gas & Electric at Diablo Canyon power plant. In this role, he is responsible for the cost estimates and implementation plans for several scopes of work including reactor vessel segmentation, large component removal, cold & dark program, spent fuel pool island and spent fuel management. Diablo Canyon recently completed a site-specific cost estimate and submitted to the California PUC in December 2018, in preparation for the eventual shutdown of Diablo Canyon U1 & U2 in 2024 and 2025, respectively. Mr. Wright began his career at Diablo Canyon in 1988 and held positions of increasing responsibility, including system engineer, maintenance foreman, operation manager, maintenance manager and engineering manager. He holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and has held a Senior Reactor Operator license.