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Press Release 96-136, NRC Names Gm Hornberger to Acnw

ML20128K433
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Issue date:	10/09/1996
From:	NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA)
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J United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs Washington. DC 20555 Phone 301.415-8200 Fax 301-415-2234 Internet:opa0nrc. gov No.96-136 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Wednesday. October 9,1996)-

NRC NAMES DR. GEORGE M. HORNBERGER TO ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR WASTE The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has' appointed Dr. George M.

Hornberger, a professor at the University of Virginia, to the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste (ACNW).

' Dr. Hornberger is the Ernest H. Ern Professor of Environmental Sciences L

at the University of Virginia, whose faculty he joined in 1970. He has served as' a visiting professor' at Stanford and the U.S. Geological Survey. Dr.

Hornberger received his bachelors and. masters degrees from Drexel University and his doctorate from Stanford.

A member of the Geological Society of. America and the'American Geophysical Union; Dr. Hornberger won the Robert E. Horton Award (Hydrology Section) from the American Geophysical Union in 1993.

The purpose of the ACNW is to provide advice to NRC-on nuclear. waste

. disposal facilities.

I -Other~ACNW members are:

Dr. B. John Garrick Chairman of the Board. PLG, Inc. Newport Beach. CA:

Dr. William J. Hinze. Professor. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Purdue University. West Lafayette. IN:

' Dr. Paul W. Pomeroy. Research-Seismologist and President. Rondout Associates.

Port Ewen. NY.

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