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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.
Todd R. Allen
John Arthur (Jay) Mullis II
Michael Scott Greenwood
Majdi Radaideh
Rafael Mariano Grossi
Douglas Charles CrawfordJie LianIgor RemecMichael TonksKenan ÜnlüGarry G. Young
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Student Section (Best Section)Missouri University of Science and Technology Student Section (Second Place)University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez Student Section (Third Place)Texas A&M University Student Section (Honorable Mention)
Jamie Baalis Coble
Abdalla Abou-JaoudeMichael CooperXu Wu
Sunil Chirayath
Kenneth C. Marsden
Robert P. Martin
Ben Holtzman
Ge Yang
Andrew T. Nelson
Askin Guler Yigitoglu
Andrei Khodak
ANS Savannah River Local SectionYasushi Ando, Hiroyuki Oigawa, and Nobuyoshi Ishida (group)Yasir ArafatRian M. BahranSylvie BermannTracy S. BoatnerRep. Chuck FleischmannNaohiro MasudaHo NiehAkira OnoTighe W. Smith
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Zeyun Wu
Stephanie H. Bruffey
Jacopo Buongiorno
Sergey Smolentsev
Jeff Waksman
