Appendix E

Biographies of Panelists and Speakers

LISA EDWARDS is the senior program manager for the Nuclear Chemistry, Radiation Safety and Used Fuel/HLW Management Programs at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Before joining EPRI in 2006, Ms. Edwards had more than 18 years of experience in commercial nuclear utilities at Duane Arnold, Comanche Peak, Cooper, and St. Lucie. She received her USNRC Senior Reactor Operator license in 2001. She has extensive experience in both solid and liquid radioactive waste processing and management. Ms. Edwards received a B.S. in chemistry from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude.

MIKLOS (MIKE) GARAMSZEGHY is a chemical/nuclear engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the research, design, and operation and planning of radioactive waste management facilities. He is currently design authority and manager of technology assessment and planning at the Canadian Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO), a utility-owned consortium that has a federal government mandate to develop and implement a program for the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. He has contributed to numerous International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-Nuclear Energy Agency (OECD-NEA), and International Association for Environmentally Safe Disposal of Radioactive Materials (EDRAM) reports, as well as international peer reviews and projects for more than 30 years, dealing with varied aspects of radioactive waste, advanced fuel cycles, and used nuclear fuel management. He is a past chair of the Canadian Standards

Association N292 technical committee (which deals with radioactive waste standards); current chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee for the ISO TC-85/SC-5 technical committee (which deals with nuclear fuel cycle and waste standards); current Canadian representative on ISO TC85/SC5/WG5 (Waste Characterization); the ISO representative on the IAEA’s Waste Safety Standards Committee (WASSC); a member of the Canadian government’s External Advisory Panel on Gen-IV reactors; and serves on the technical program advisory boards for several international conferences dealing with radioactive waste management. He holds BASc and MASc degrees in chemical/nuclear engineering from the University of Toronto (Canada) and is a registered professional engineer in Ontario (Canada).

MELANIE PEARSON HURLEY has more than 25 years’ experience at the Department of Energy in regulatory compliance and oversight, and program and project management. She has worked in the environmental discipline for the past 35 years in local, state, and federal government agencies. Mrs. Hurley joined the Office of Environmental Management in 2009 after 18 years with the former DOE Office of Environment, Safety and Health (now Environment, Health, Safety and Security). She is currently a headquarters liaison in the Office of Field Operations for the eight Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center Projects. Mrs. Hurley has a B.S. in biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a masters in administration from Central Michigan University.

LAWRENCE “RICK” JACOBI, JR. is the owner and principal consultant at Jacobi Consulting. He is an experienced nuclear industry executive with more than 40 years of front-line experience in project management, licensing, and handling of radioactive material, environmental sciences, legal and regulatory matters, and governmental and media affairs. As a licensed nuclear engineer, health physicist, and member of the State Bar of Texas, Mr. Jacobi provides technical assistance to a variety of nuclear and radiological facilities including waste disposal companies, industrial users, uranium miners, transportation companies, oil and gas exploration and production companies, and investment companies who are seeking an expert opinion on the acquisition of nuclear facilities. He offers hands-on technical assistance in the licensing, construction, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear and radiological facilities, including expert guidance on radiation risk assessment, licensing and permitting of nuclear facilities, environmental assessments, nuclear facility closure and decommissioning plans, radiological and nonradiological environmental monitoring programs, and nuclear facility operating procedures. Mr. Jacobi is an internationally recognized expert on the management of radioactive waste storage, processing, and

disposal facilities. He has a B.S. and M.Sc. in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law.

SCOTT KIRK recently joined BWX Technologies and serves as the director of regulatory affairs for its Technical Service Group. In this capacity, Mr. Kirk provides guidance on a variety of regulatory affairs matters, focusing on radioactive waste management. Prior to his employment with BWX Technologies, Mr. Kirk served as the vice president of licensing and regulatory affairs for Waste Control Specialists during the past 10 years, working on disposal options for complex waste streams such a large quantities of depleted uranium and Greater-Than-Class C low-level waste. Mr. Kirk was also employed by Nuclear Fuel Services and served as the principle liaison with USNRC for more than 10 years. He was responsible for obtaining licensing approval for processing highly enriched uranium for the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and a major nuclear-nonproliferation program for DOE. Mr. Kirk was recently selected by the Southeast Compact Commission for Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management as the recipient of 2017 Richard S. Hodes M.D. Honor Lecture Award for his contributions and innovations in the field of radioactive waste management. He has a M.Sc. in environmental health from East Tennessee State University and a B.S. in geology and physics from Appalachian State University. He is certified in the comprehensive practice of health physics by the American Board of Health Physics.

GREG LOVATO is deputy administrator at the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP), where he oversees the Mining, Environmental Cleanup, Waste Management, and Federal Facilities programs. He started his career in at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 as an environmental engineer working on cleanup, brownfields, and hazardous waste permitting projects in Nevada and California, including 3 years at NDEP in Carson City and 6 years at the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. Mr. Lovato holds a B.S. in civil engineering from Stanford University and a B.A. in management-engineering from Claremont McKenna College. Mr. Lovato is a licensed professional engineer (civil) in Nevada and California.

THOMAS E. MAGETTE has more than 30 years’ experience managing and conducting nuclear safety, licensing, siting, and environmental assessment programs for energy generation and transmission, national defense, and radioactive waste disposal facilities. He served as the director of the Nuclear Safety Division in DOE’s Office of New Production Reactors and was the manager of nuclear programs for the Maryland Power Plant Research Program. His experience covers a wide spectrum of the nuclear

industry, including operating reactors, decommissioning, decommissioning funding, transportation, low-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, and import-export of radioactive material. Mr. Magette currently manages nuclear consulting offerings for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Capital Projects and Infrastructure in the United States. Mr. Magette holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and is a registered professional engineer in Maryland and Virginia.

WILLIAM “WILL” NICHOLS’ professional experience as a water resources engineer has focused on hydrology, environmental site characterization, fate and transport modeling, pathway and exposure modeling, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, integrated risk assessment, probabilistic modeling and simulation, and software quality assurance. He has applied his expertise to help solve problems of national importance in the areas of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), remedial investigations and feasibility studies, radioactive waste disposal facility licensing, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews, and environmental impact statement development. Mr. Nichols’ expertise has been applied in support of environmental restoration, dose reconstruction for legacy radioactive waste practices, and demonstration of compliance with applicable waste disposal regulatory requirements. He received a B.S. and M.S. from Oregon State University.

ANDREW ORRELL is the section head for Waste and Environmental Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) where he is responsible for the development and promulgation of internationally accepted standards, requirements, and guides for the safe management of radioactive waste and spent fuel, decommissioning, remediation, and environmental monitoring. In addition, Mr. Orrell oversees the planning and execution of support to the IAEA Member States for the implementation of the IAEA Safety Standards and the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. Prior to joining the IAEA, Mr. Orrell was the director of nuclear energy programs for Sandia National Laboratories. With more than 25 years of professional experience in nuclear fuel cycle and radioactive waste management for the U.S. and several international programs, Mr. Orrell is versed in the complex interdependencies between nuclear energy development, waste management, decommissioning, remediation, and disposal. Mr. Orrell routinely advises government and industry leaders on the technical and policy implications for radioactive waste management, including repository development and licensing, national policy development and regulation, site characterization

and safety case development, storage, transportation, and the securing of public confidence.

GÉRALD OUZOUNIAN has been the international director for ANDRA, the French national radioactive waste management agency, since October 2006. Previously, he served as the deputy director for the scientific department at ANDRA for 16 years. He was also in charge of modelling policy and of its implementation in ANDRA. In these functions, he has prepared and implemented studies for low- and intermediate-level activity waste disposal and for used nuclear fuel and high-level waste management, including strategic studies and scientific and technical assessment of the different options. Dr. Ouzounian is a member of the Nuclear Energy Agency’s Radioactive Waste Management Committee and the IAEA’s Waste Technology Committee. He received a Ph.D. from the Paris University.

DANIEL “DAN” B. SHRUM has worked for EnergySolutions for 19 years. He is the senior vice president for regulatory affairs at EnergySolutions and is responsible for the overall corporate environmental, radiation safety, quality assurance, and security culture, obtaining and updating EnergySolutions numerous permits and licenses, and ensuring that the regulations are followed at all facilities. He has more than 24 years of professional experience including investigations and remedial actions at numerous CERCLA and RCRA sites in Utah, North Dakota, Alaska, and California. Mr. Shrum has designed and installed monitoring well compliance and groundwater extraction systems and has conducted and interpreted aquifer test data for many groundwater investigations. He has successfully managed field teams conducting site characterizations, remedial investigations, and treat-ability studies. He is experienced in all aspects of drilling and monitoring well completion methods, appropriate air, soil, and groundwater sampling protocol, and quality assurance/quality control procedures. Mr. Shrum has authored or co-authored many soil and groundwater work plans and sampling protocols in addition to investigation reports. Mr. Shrum’s academic experience emphasized the geology, hydrogeology, and geochemistry of the several mountain systems in Utah and Idaho.

TEMEKA TAPLIN is the federal program manager for the Off-Site Source Recovery Program within the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Radiological Security. During her 5 years of federal service she has worked on numerous radiological security programs dealing with disused, unwanted, and orphaned radiological sources. Under her tenure, thousands of radiological sources have been recovered for final disposition or brought back under regulatory control. She also works with national laboratories and university partners to build educational programs

that will increase the number of radiation security experts for the next generation. Ms. Taplin has an M.H.P. and is a graduate of Texas A&M University.

DOUG TONKAY is the director of the Office of Waste Disposal within the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (EM). He manages staff responsible for a portfolio of EM mission activities, including strategic planning and disposal policy for DOE LLW/mixed LLW, a share of the DOE’s LLW Federal Review Group, disposition planning for depleted uranium, and planning for Greater-Than-Class C LLW disposition. During his 25-year career at DOE he has worked on a variety of assignments in low-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste management. He also leads the U.S. interagency working group implementing activities for the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management and is also the U.S. country coordinator for two IAEA projects. He earned B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in nuclear engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

MARK YEAGER is environmental health manager in the Division of Waste Management with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. He began his career in 1980 in the Department’s Radiological Laboratory while attending the University of South Carolina. In addition to conducting environmental monitoring at the state’s various fixed nuclear facilities, Mr. Yeager performed environmental monitoring and sample analyses at the Energy Solutions/Chem-Nuclear Systems LLW disposal facility located in Barnwell, SC. In 1987, Mr. Yeager transferred to the state’s Agreement State program as an onsite inspector at the Barnwell facility. He is currently the program’s senior health physicist and inspector. Some of his achievements within the field of radioactive waste management and transportation include: contributing member of the Conference of Radiation Control Program Director’s (CRCPD’s) E-26 Committee on Radioactive Material Transportation; active member and former chairperson of the CRCPD’s E-5 Committee on Radioactive Waste Management; providing technical assistance and regulatory oversight to the EPA and U.S. Navy during the radiological decommissioning of the Charleston Naval Shipyard; providing regulatory oversight of the final decommissioning and resulting waste disposal operations of the former Carolinas-Virginia Training Reactor located in Jenkinsville, SC; assisting in the development and subsequent publication of the American National Standard Institute’s Standard N14.36: Measurement of Radiation Levels and Surface Contamination for Packages and Conveyances; administering the state’s transportation inspection program for DOE’s Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel Recovery Program and the Savannah River

Site/Waste Isolation Pilot Plant TRU waste disposal program; assisting in the implementation of the USNRC’s initial orders and subsequent security requirements in 10 CFR Part 37 at the Barnwell Disposal Facility; and the Organization of Agreement State’s representative on the USNRC’s 10 CFR Part 61 Working Group.

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