Press Release-IV-19-001, NRC Names New Resident Inspector at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

Press Release-IV-19-001: NRC Names New Resident Inspector at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station

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Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	01/07/2019
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No: IV-19-001 January 7, 2019

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Victor Dricks, 817-200-1128 NRC Names New Resident Inspector at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Russ Bywater as the new resident inspector at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Wintersburg, Ariz.

Bywater joined the NRC in 1990 as a reactor engineer in the NRCs Region III office in Glen Ellyn, Ill. He also served as a resident inspector at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant in Minnesota. He transferred to NRCs Region IV office in Arlington, Texas, in 1997. He served as an engineering inspector, as a senior resident inspector at the Arkansas Nuclear One power plant in Russellville, Ark., as a senior reactor analyst, and as chief of an engineering branch in the Division of Reactor Safety.

In 2008, Bywater left the agency for work in private industry in new reactor licensing. He also worked as an independent nuclear safety consultant. Bywater taught high school engineering and physics classes for five years in Texas before rejoining the agency earlier this year as a project engineer.

Bywater holds bachelors degrees in physics and mathematics from Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Neb., and a masters degree in nuclear engineering from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Each U.S. commercial nuclear power plant site has at least two NRC resident inspectors.

Bywater joins senior resident inspector Charles Peabody and resident inspector David You. They serve as the agencys eyes and ears at the facility, conducting inspections, monitoring significant work projects, and interacting with plant workers and the public.