Press Release-I-19-021, New NRC Resident Inspector Assigned to Millstone Nuclear Power Plant

Press Release-I-19-021: New NRC Resident Inspector Assigned to Millstone Nuclear Power Plant

ML19210C077
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Site:	Millstone
Issue date:	07/29/2019
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No: I-19-021 July 29, 2019

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Diane Screnci, 610-337-5330 Neil Sheehan, 610-337-5331 New NRC Resident Inspector Assigned to Millstone Nuclear Power Plant Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials in King of Prussia, Pa., have selected Eben Allen as the new resident inspector at Millstone Station in Waterford, Conn. He joins NRC Senior Resident Inspector Justin Fuller and Resident Inspector Chris Highley at the site, operated by Dominion Nuclear.

Allen joined the agency at NRC headquarters in 2013, where he worked as a project manager for spent fuels in the Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards, and as a project manager for research and test reactors in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Allen has worked as a reactor engineer in Region I since 2017.

He served for six years in the United States Navy as a machinist mate aboard the USS Alaska. He holds a bachelors degree in nuclear engineering technology from Thomas Edison State University, a masters degree in nuclear engineering with an emphasis in health physics, and a graduate certificate in nuclear security and safeguards from the University of Missouri. He was an NRC-licensed reactor operator at the University of Missouris Research Reactor Each U.S. commercial nuclear plant has at least two NRC resident inspectors. They serve as the agency's eyes and ears at the facility, conducting inspections, monitoring major work projects and interacting with plant workers and the public. Resident inspectors can be assigned to any one site for up to seven years.