“The next few years are some of the most pivotal in the agency’s history,” said Marzano in an NRC news release. “I am grateful for the opportunity to join my fellow commissioners at this moment to work together to help shape the future of the NRC.”
Background: With Marzano filling the once open seat of the five-member commission, there now will be a tiebreaker vote, which the group has been without since June 2023 when Jeff Baran’s term expired.
Marzano brings more than a decade of industry experience to his new role, both working in nuclear plants and advising energy policy on Capitol Hill.
Most recently he was an Idaho National Laboratory detailee to the Senate’s Environmental and Public Works committee. In 2022, he was the American Nuclear Society’s Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow and spent a year working directly with legislators and congressional committees on nuclear policy.
Marzano began his career at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in 2012, supporting U.S. Navy training. He moved in 2015 to Dominion Energy, where he spent two years supporting the twin AP1000 reactor expansion project (since halted) at V. C. Summer nuclear power plant. Marzano then joined Exelon Generation (now Constellation) at Braidwood nuclear power plant, supporting digital plant upgrades while obtaining a senior reactor operator license.
Quotable: In welcoming Marzano to the post, Hanson said, “The commission functions at its best when we are at our full strength of five.”
