ML20129K288

Press Release 96-159, NRC Reassigns Regional Managers

ML20129K288
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Site:	Millstone, Haddam Neck  File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	11/15/1996
From:	NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA)
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PR-96-159, NUDOCS 9611150316
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! United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs .

Washington. DC 20555 Phone 301-415-8200 Fax 301-415-2234  :

Internet:opa@nrc. gov '

l' No.96-159 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE l (Friday. November 15. 1996) '

l NRC REASSIGNS REGIONAL MANAGERS l

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has named William L. Axelson'.

curi cut.ly Acting Deputy Regional Administrator of NRC Region III in Lisle. i

, Illinois, as Deputy Regional Administrator of NRC Region I which has offices 1

in King of Prussia. Pennsylvania.

L Mr. Axelson succeeds William F. Kane, who will direct the Spent Fuel l Project Office in the Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards at NRC headquarters in Rockville. Maryland.

Mr. Kane is replacing Dr. William D. Travers, recently named to head a I l Special Projects Office within the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation to '

l oversee all inspection and licensing activities at the Millstone and Haddam Neck plants operated by Northeast Utilities in Connecticut.

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! The Axelson and Kane assignments will be effective in early March. A successor to Mr. Axelson in Region III will be named in the near future.

Region I encompasses 11 states and the District of Columbia in the  !

northeastern United States and has 29 commercial nuclear power reactors. )

l Region III is responsible for the NRC regulatory program in eight midwestern  ;

l states having 27 commercial nuclear reactors.

Mr. Axelson'has served as Acting Regional Deputy Administrator of NRC Region III since August, after having served there as Director of the Division i of Reactor Projects since 1995. He joined the NRC in 1977 as a radiation specialist in the Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards. In 1979, he '

l became an emergency preparedness analyst, subsequently forming and supervising l the Emergency Preparedness Section until 1983, when he became chief of the

! nuclear materials and safeguards branch.

l In 1987, he was assigned to NRC Region III's Division of Reactor Projects, and assumed a similar branch chief role for operating reactor project management. While in the Division of Reactor Projects, he also assumed the responsibilities of chief of the technical support staff. He was appointed to the position of deputy director of the Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards in 1990, and became director of that division in 1993.

Mr. Kane has been the Region I Deputy Administrator since 1990, after three years' service as director of the Division of Reactor Projects. He

joined the Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor to the NRC. in 1973, as a 9611150316 961115 \

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l 3roject manager in what is now the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at NRC l

1eadquarters. Between 1973 and 1984 he served as a senior project manager, as acting chief of the standardization branch, and in senior managerial positions in the Office of the NRC's Executive Director for Operations. He was deputy director of the Division of Reactor Projects from 1985 to 1987.

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