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DOE’s Marla Morales talks with ANS’s Craig Piercy
A recent American Nuclear Society webinar featured an extended one-on-one conversation between ANS CEO Craig Piercy and Marla Morales, the acting deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and high-level waste disposition at the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy. The two discussed the future of the fuel cycle in the United States, especially as it relates to the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses program launched by the DOE earlier this year.
Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)
Sean Fournier is a nuclear engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories Nuclear Incident Response Program (NIRP). He received his MS in Nuclear Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2018. Sean started his career in 2010 working in the radiochemistry laboratory at Sandia. Sean has participated in several inter-agency working groups on nuclear incident response preparedness; most notably, the Department of Energy’s Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center (FRMAC) Laboratory Analysis Working Group. This group is responsible for determining the methods, procedures, and training for sample control and analysis during a national-scale nuclear emergency. Sean is the current skillset leader for the Consequence Management Laboratory Analysis Unit and works toward maintaining readiness of the responders and the technology used by the team.
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