International High Level Radioactive Waste Management (IHLRWM 2025)

Steven P. Nesbit, P.E.

ANS Past President and

Nuclear Waste Policy Task Force Chair

Steve Nesbit founded LMNT Consulting in 2019 following a distinguished career with Duke Energy Corporation. Nesbit’s career at Duke Energy began in 1982 doing nuclear safety analysis. Between 1996 and 2005, he led Duke Energy’s efforts related to the use of mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in its nuclear power reactors as a part of the Department of Energy (DOE) project to dispose of surplus plutonium from nuclear weapons. For nine years he was the company’s Director of Nuclear Policy, responsible for developing policy positions related to nuclear power and interacting with industry and government groups on used fuel management and related issues.

Nesbit worked on DOE’s Yucca Mountain Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal Project and its Centralized Interim Storage Facility Project in the 1990s, and he managed used nuclear fuel activities for Duke Energy in the 2000s. He published technical and policy papers on geologic repository seismic design methodology, centralized interim storage, an improved used fuel management organization, and a proposed waste acceptance queue for shutdown nuclear power reactors. He was a co-author of the 2023 ANS report on generic repository standards. He testified to both houses of Congress on used fuel issues – the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee in 2017 and the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in 2019.

Nesbit received Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Virginia. He is a registered professional engineer in North Carolina and Maine. He was an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he taught nuclear engineering. Nesbit was ANS President from June 2021 to June 2022 and is a Fellow of the society.