Press Release-IV-02-023, NRC Names Scott Schwind Senior Resident Inspector at Cooper Nuclear Station

Press Release-IV-02-023: NRC Names Scott Schwind Senior Resident Inspector at Cooper Nuclear Station

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Site:	Cooper
Issue date:	05/02/2002
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NRC NEWS U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Office of Public Affairs, Region IV 611 Ryan Plaza Drive - Suite 400 Arlington TX 76011-8064 No. IV-02-023 May 2, 2002 CONTACT: Breck Henderson E-mail: opa4@nrc.gov Phone: 817-860-8128 Cellular: 817-917-1227 NRC NAMES SCOTT SCHWIND SENIOR RESIDENT INSPECTOR AT COOPER NUCLEAR STATION The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has named Scott Schwind Senior Resident Inspector at Cooper Nuclear Station, a nuclear power plant near Brownville, Nebraska. He joins Michael Hay, the resident inspector at the plant.

Mr. Schwind graduated from West Texas State University with a bachelors degree in mathematics and physics in 1989. Following graduation he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy aboard nuclear powered submarines until 1994. He then worked as a systems engineer for the U.S.

Department of Energy at the Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant in Amarillo, Texas, until 1997.

In 1997, Mr. Schwind joined the NRC at its Region I office in King of Prussia, Penn., as a reactor engineer. He has served as resident inspector at the Indian Point Nuclear Station, Unit 2, in Buchanan, N.Y., and at Comanche Peak, near Glen Rose, Texas, prior to his assignment as senior resident inspector at Cooper.

Mr. Schwind will reside in Nemaha.

Each U.S. commercial nuclear power plant has at least two NRC resident inspectors. They serve as the agency's eyes and ears at the facility, conducting regular inspections and monitoring significant work projects.