ML21088A442
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| Site: | Palisades, Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/29/2021 |
| From: | Alvarez R Beyond Nuclear, Don't Waste Michigan, Michigan Safe Energy Future |
| To: | NRC/OCM |
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ROBERT ALVAREZ 615 Kennebec Avenue - Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 Phone: 301-585-7672. Fax: 301-585- 9474 E-mail: kitbob@erols.com CURRENT POSITIONS SENIOR SCHOLAR, AND DIRECTOR OF THE NUCLEAR POLICY PROJECT, INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2011- to the present PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STRATEGIC INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, 2013-2020 SENIOR POLICY ADVISOR TO THE SECRETARY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY WASHINGTON, D.C. - 1993-1999 Responsibilities:
Led and coordinated initiatives and developed policies on behalf of the Secretary relative to nuclear weapons, worker illness compensation, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear material controls, environmental cleanup, nuclear safety, and asset management.
Performed technical and policy analyses for the Secretary regarding the U.S
. nuclear weapons production complex, commercial nuclear energy, nuclear material management and disposition, nuclear arms reductions with Russia, environmental, safety and health and DOE management issues.
Oversight of Department-wide labor policies for some 100,000 contract employees.
Accomplishments:
Led DOE expert teams in a sensitive U.S. Nuclear nonproliferation project to safely secure plutonium-bearing spent fuel at the Yongbyon, nuclear weapons site in North Korea - as part of Agreed Framework between the United States and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
Led and developed a successful legislative effort to establish a federal compensation program for Department of Energy nuclear weapons workers with occupational diseases.
Participated in vulnerability assessments regarding spent nuclear fuel, plutonium and highly-enriched uranium at DOE sites.
Developed first DOE-wide strategic Roadmap for strategic management of the DOEs nuclear material inventory.
2 Established the first Department-wide Asset Inventory and Management program that generated some $60 million in revenues.
Developed successful procurement plan to stabilize some 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride - roughly half of the uranium ever mined in the world.
Established a medical monitoring program for former DOE nuclear weapons workers.
CHIEF INVESTIGATOR COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS U.S. SENATE, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Years Employed: 1988-93 Responsibilities:
Prepared and reviewed legislation for the Chairman relative to energy, labor, environment, safety, health, and nuclear weapons issues.
Oversight, investigations, studies and audits of the U.S. Department's of Energy, Defense, and Interior, Food and Drug Administration, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, National Aeronautic and Space Administration, and Environmental Protection Agency.
Produced reports, prepared Committee hearings and speech writing for the Chairman.
Accomplishments:
Drafted and helped enacted several pieces of legislation including: the creation of the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board (1988); control of radioactive emissions under the Clean Air Act (1990); establishment of a hazards material worker training program for the Department of Energy (1991); a workforce restructuring and community transition program for shutdown nuclear weapons facilities. (1992); and the termination of the U.S. atmospheric nuclear weapons test readiness program (1993).
Helped create and foster the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program. (1988-89)
Organized over 25 Committee hearings on a wide array of subjects.
FOUNDER, AND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, D.C. Years Employed: 1975-88 Responsibilities:
Managed the Institute's research, Congressional communications, and citizen involvement relative to energy, environmental, health and military nuclear issues.
Public speaking, political organizing and lobbying.
Fund-raising for a $1.5 million annual budget.
Accomplishments:
Provided the first credible independent technical research on the environmental, safety and health risks and legacies associated with the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
Helped enact environmental legislation including the 1977 Clean Air Act, The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act amendments of 1986-92, The 1986 Superfund Act; as well as legislation to dispose of nuclear wastes (The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act,
3 1978, The Nuclear Waste Policy Act, 1982, the Low-Level Waste Policy Act, 1987); and legislation to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
Led the national environmental effort to strengthen radiation protection standards and provide compensation for radiation victims.
Helped organize a Congressional investigation and successful lawsuit on behalf of the parents and children of Karen Silkwood, a deceased nuclear "whistle blower." In 1984 the Supreme Court upheld the jury verdict against the company that employed Ms. Silkwood.
Helped organize diverse political coalitions around the country.
Organized several scientific conferences and sponsored scientific and medical research published in peer-reviewed journals.
LEGISLATIVE AIDE U.S. SENATOR JAMES ABOUREZK (D-SD), Washington D.C. Years Employed: 1973-75 Responsibilities:
Indian affairs, environment, and energy issues.
Accomplishments:
Helped enact the Indian health care Improvement Act.
Defended Indian water rights in the Upper Colorado River Basin against large water diversions for environmentally destructive coal gasification plants.
Uncovered a systematic effort by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the US Public Health Service to have Indian women sterilized and to have Indian children serve as experimental subjects for drugs without proper informed consent.
AWARDS AND SPECIAL RECOGNITION Awarded two Secretarial Gold Medals, the highest honors bestowed by the Department of Energy.
The John Barlow Martin Prize for Public Interest Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, in 1989.
Featured in National Public Television's Nova documentary - Hanford: the Nuclear Legacy - broadcast in February and August of 1990.
Featured on CBS 60 Minutes story regarding my efforts to uncover military human radiation experiments -- broadcast in March 1994 and August 1995.
Featured in an October 16, 1999 New York Times article regarding DOE high-level radioactive wastes.
Featured on the History Channel program, "History's Mysteries regarding the Karen Silkwood case (November 1999)
Featured in a January 29, 2000 New York Times article regarding radiation risks to U.S.
nuclear weapons workers.
Featured in a January 30, 2000 Washington Post Article regarding health risks of nuclear weapons workers.
Featured in the New York Times on April 30, 2000 and on National Public Radios All Things Considered on May 8, 2000 regarding my experiences in the U.S. Department of Energy.
Featured on CBS 60 Minutes on March 17, 2002 regarding Defense High-Level Radioactive Wastes.
Featured on National Public Radios All Things Considered in May 2003, and May 2010 regarding my experiences at North Koreas nuclear site and a primer on controlling nuclear materials.
4 EDUCATION Attended the Dana School of Music in Youngstown, Ohio 1964-68, Majored in music theory and composition.
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Radiation Exposure Standards, (letter) Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, November 1980.
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Radiation Standards and A-Bomb Survivors, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, October 1984.
U.S. to Resume Uranium Production for Weapons, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, April 1985.
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NRC Goes in Reverse on Radiation Standards, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 17, 1986.
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Who should manage the U.S. Nuclear Weapons complex? Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, December 2012.
Managing the Uranium233 Stockpile of the United States, Science and Global Security, January 2013.
A Primer on Military Nuclear Wastes the United States Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, February 2014.
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Thorium, the wonder fuel that wasnt, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May 2014 Reports Water for Energy Use in the Upper Missouri River Basin, Environmental Policy Institute, February 1976.
All Electric Kitchens and Starvation: An assessment of nuclear energy in Less Developed Countries, Environmental Policy Institute, October 1976.
Radiation Monitoring Around Nuclear Power Plants, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979.
Plowshares into Swords: Mining Plutonium from Commercial Nuclear Power Spent Fuel, (Co-authored with David Albright and Elli Walters), Environmental Policy Institute, Washington D.C."
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An Assessment of health and Mortality Studies of federal Nuclear Workers in the United States, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., June 1985 Deadly Crop in the Tank Farm: An Assessment of the Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Plant, (co-authored with Arjun Makhijani and Brent Blackwelder), Environmental Policy' Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., July 1986.
Cut-Rate Cleanup: An Assessment of the U.S. Department of the U.S. Department of Energys Fiscal Year 1987 Budget for Nuclear Weapons Production, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., March 1987.
Evading the Deadly Issues: An Reply to Recent Criticisms by the DuPont Corporation regarding High-level Radioactive Waste Management at the Savannah River Plant, (co-authored with Arjun Makhijani and Brent Blackwelder), Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. September 1987.
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A accident and Explosion Risks at U. S. Department of Energy High-Level Nuclear Waste Sites, Report, U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, July 1990.
Downsizing the U. S. Nuclear Weapon's Complex and Managing Excess Fissile Material, Report of the U. S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, February 1991.
Radiological Contamination in the United States, Report, Committee on Governmental Affairs, April 1992.
Regulation of Medical Radiation Uses, Report, Committee on Governmental Affairs, May 1993.
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Options for Closing or Converting Plutonium Production Reactors in Russia, December 1994, White Paper (Official Use Only).
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The Hanford Vadose Zone: A Proposed approach to Characterizing Subsurface Hanford contaminants and their impacts on the Columbia River and Biota, January 15, 1998 (Official Use Only)
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Radioactive Wastes and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, Institute for Policy Studies, May 2007.