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The transformation of the NRC: 50 years of commissioners
The dust is beginning to settle following the whirlwind of changes at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over the past year, and 2025 ultimately may be viewed as a transformative year, as well as the year the NRC celebrated its golden anniversary. The 12 months of that milestone year brought more change to the agency in its composition, its mandate, and its relationship to the executive branch than any comparable period in the preceding four decades.
Now at 51 years and counting, the NRC is working with a full commission and issuing new rulemakings to both regulate and support the next round of nuclear deployments. With the turbulence of 2025 still fresh in our minds, Nuclear News decided it was a good time to revisit the professional backgrounds of all 42 NRC commissioners who have served over the agency’s 50-year history to see how the composition of the commission has evolved over time.
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Honors and Awards Program
Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
Bonnie Rumble
Mimi Holland Limbach
Nam Truc DinhWon Sik YangGeorge F. FlanaganAli MoslehThomas M. SuttonMark S. Tillack
University of Wisconsin (Best Section)Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (Honorable Mention)
Benoit Forget
William H. Miller
Adolph Birkhofer
Charles Till
Small Local SectionsNortheastern New York Local Section (Best Meetings and Programs)Connecticut Local Section (Best Public Information, Best Section Management)Pittsburgh (Best Membership)Large Local SectionsSavannah River Local Section (Best Meetings and Programs, Best Public Information)Idaho Local Section (Best Membership, Best Section Management)
Randy Edington
Oak Ridge National Laboratory High Flux Isotope Reactor
Dieter H. WachJulius J. Persensky
Youngsuk Bang
AtalanteNIST Center for Neutron Research
NURETH-15Akiyama M.Nusret AksanBaek W.-P.Banerjee S.Chang S. H.Cheung F. B.Michael L. Corradini Jean-Marc DelhayeD.C. GroeneveldYassin A. HassanLawrence E. HochreiterMamoru Ishii Jong H. KimKirillov P. L.Richard T. Lahey, Jr.Mayinger F.Hideki NariaiHisashi NinokataMichael. Z. Podowski Ransom V. H.Jovica R. RiznicRust K. Sakurai A.Bal-Raj SehgalTheofanis G. TheofanousNeil E. TodreasGeorge Yadigaroglu
Kirsten Laurin-Kovitz
Dr. John J. Dorning, Jr.
Leslie BarbourJoyce ConneryWilliam CorcoranEric LoewenDavid MatthewsMichaele Brady RaapTheodore RockwellAdmiral Eugene P. Wilkinson
J. Kenneth Shultis
Harold M. Agnew
Richard Meserve
Richard Denning
Carl A. Mazzola
GraduateUniversity of Florida: Innovative Accident Tolerant UO2 Composite Fuel for use in LWRsDanny Permar, Andrew Cartas, Haitang WangUniversity of Michigan: Cadmium Capture-gated Detector for Use as a Portal MonitorMarc Ruch, Alicia Salazar, Charles SosaUndergraduateUniversity of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign: (DECAP) - Diesel Exhaust Cleaning with Atmospheric PlasmaStephen Kleppinger, David Peterson, Zachariah Shukur, Matthew Szott, Hyun Ho Yun, Erik ZiehmUniversity of California – Berkley: Accident Tolerant Refractory Metal Based Cladding for Light Water ReactorsD.M. Frazer, M.D. Loff, A.F. Magyar, R.E. Meyer, D. Moon, J.L. Sabella, M.J. Szwabowski
Chang Oh
Calvin Hopper
James HammerRichard Petrasso
Ali Mosleh
Dresden
David Heler
Pete Domenici
Augusto Gandini
Piyush Sabharwall
Eric P. Loewen
Loyd A. Wright
