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Appendix A: Committee and Staff Biographies
Pages 114-121

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From page 114...
... report Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism and was on the NRC committee that produced the report Terrorism and the Chemical Infrastructure: Protecting People and Reducing Vulnerabilities as well as several other national committees focusing on transportation risks, including spent fuel. She was the project manager and primary author of the Guidelines for Chemical Transportation Risk Analysis, published by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Center for Chemical Process Safety, and served on the center's technical steering committee.
From page 115...
... and Yucca Mountain -- locations designed to safely manage waste from nuclear operations. He was president and chief operating officer of the privately owned Waste Control Specialists, LLC, operating the hazardous waste disposal facility, and managing licensing of a low-level radioactive waste treatment and storage facility.
From page 116...
... He then was the lead chemist for the aqueous recovery of many tons of plutonium scrap residues that had collected at the Rocky Flats Site; this was a multisite program that assigned various Rocky Flats plutonium scraps to Los Alamos, Hanford, Savannah River, and Rocky Flats where these scraps best fit into their respective plutonium recovery operations. He was then transferred to the Savannah River Plant Site to oversee the Separations Technology Laboratory with responsibilities over all chemical unit operations (highly enriched uranium, neptunium, low assay plutonium-238, americium-241, curium-244, weapons-grade plutonium, and depleted uranium)
From page 117...
... Dr. Johnson won the Taylor Lecture Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, the Ross Coffin Purdy Award for the best paper in ceramic literature, the Fulrath Award, the John Jeppson Award, the Orton Lecture Award from the American Ceramic Society, and the International Ceramics Prize for Industrial Research from the World Academy of Ceramics.
From page 118...
... Orrell was the director of Nuclear Energy Programs for Sandia National Laboratories, where he was responsible for laboratory development initiatives involving all facets of the nuclear fuel cycle. He provided executive leadership for Sandia's Lead Laboratory for Repository Systems program, managing the completion of the post-closure performance assessment and safety case for a license to construct the nation's first geological repository for high level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
From page 119...
... Cooperative Agreement for the Transportation of Transuranic Wastes. She works at regional and national levels to innovate approaches to ensure the safe transportation of transuranic materials, highway route-controlled quantities, high-level radioactive waste, and commercial spent nuclear fuel shipments in the distant future, whether to interim storage or permanent disposal.
From page 120...
... Ms. Ottmer serves as advisor to the governor on nuclear transportation matters including the spent commercial nuclear fuel stored at the Fort Saint Vrain Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation in northern Colorado.
From page 121...
... for nearly 10 years. While at APL she established and grew its nuclear security program with the Department of Homeland Security's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.


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