NRC Chair Nomination

["Dunn, Wes" <WDunn@intiso.com>]

	> NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Monday, August 9, 1999
	> 
	> Published weekdays except holidays by the Nuclear Publications of
The
	> McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. Copyright 1999. All rights reserved. 
	> 
	> --LAWYER-PHYSICIST RICHARD MESERVE WAS NOMINATED TO THE NRC AND
WILL BE
	> appointed chairman once confirmed by the Senate, President Clinton
	> announced Friday. If approved, Meserve will fill the seat vacated
by
	> Shirley Jackson, who left in July to become president of
Rensselaer
	> Polytechnic Institute. He is a partner at the Washington, D.C. law
firm of
	> Covington & Burling and chairs two National Academy of Sciences
(NAS)
	> committees. One NAS panel is examining how DOE can maintain
international
	> scientific openness while protecting national security interests;
the
	> other is focusing on ways to strengthen Russian capabilities for
	> controlling highly enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiles.
Meserve
	> received a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University and a
J.D.
	> from Harvard Law School. He was a law clerk for Supreme Court
Justice
	> Harry Blackmun for a year in the mid-1970s and was legal counsel
to the
	> president's science and technology adviser during the Carter
	> administration.
	> 

Wes

Wesley M. Dunn, CHP
International Isotopes, Inc.
Wdunn@intiso.com <mailto:Wdunn@intiso.com> 			
Corporate Website:  http://www.intiso.com <http://www.intiso.com> 

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