Up & Atom Guest Speakers

Jack Craig, SRS DOE Operations Office
Garry Flowers, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
Jim French, Savannah River Remediation, LLC
Topic: Update on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (June 2010)

Dr. Nils Diaz
Chairman Emeritus,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Topic: U.S. New Nuclear Deployment - The Need for Decision-Making (May 2010)

Tom Tyman
Vice President,
Southern Nuclear Plant Vogtle Topic: The many roles of Admiral Wilkinson (April 2010)

Tim McGill (Southern Company) and
Mike McCracken (Plant Vogtle) (March 2010)

Mark Fecteau
Managing Director of Strategic Project Development,
Global Growth & Innovation Effort,
Westinghouse Electric Company (January 2010)

Garry Flowers,
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (December 2009)

Dr. Susan Winsor,
President,
Aiken Technical College; and
Dr. Thomas Hallman
Chancellor & Chief Operating Officer,
University of South Carolina - Aiken
Topic: Bringing Nuclear Career Opportunities Home: The Nuclear Renaissance in the CSRA (August 2009)

James French
President & Project Manager,
Savannah River Remediation, LLC (July 2009)

Jeff Allison,
Manager, DOE Savannah River Site; and
Chuck Munns,
President & CEO, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Topic: An Update on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (June 2009)

Jack Tuohy
Executive Director,
American Nuclear Society
Topic: Our Unique Mission and Challenges (May 2009)

Dr. Wendy Kuhne
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics,
Medical College of Georgia
Topic: Radioecology (April 2009)

Dr. Dorothy Davidson
Vice President, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Science Programs
AREVA Federal Services, LLC and
Key Accounts Manager for Department of Energy Programs,
AREVA, Inc.
Topic: Closing the Fuel Cycle - Options for Used Fuel Management in the U.S. (March 2009)

Thomas Reed
Former Secretary of the Air Force, and
Author, At the Abyss: An Insider's History of the Cold War (February 2009)

Dr. Tom Sanders
President-Elect, American Nuclear Society
Manager of Global Nuclear Futures Program,
Sandia National Laboratories (January 2009)

Dr. Don Bridges
US Department of Energy (Retired)
Topic: American Nuclear Society People-to-People Visit to China (October 2008)

Stephen Byrne, Senior Vice President
Generation, Nuclear and Fossil Hydro
South Carolina Electric & Gas
Topic: New Nuclear Future (September 2008)

Charles L. Munns, Vice Admiral (Ret.)
President and Chief Executive Officer
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Special Dinner and Presentation Event (August 2008)

James Corley
Associate Professor & Nuclear Pharmacist
Medical College of Georgia
Topic: Focus on Radiopharmaceuticals in Medicine (July 2008)

Dr. Sam Bhattacharyya
Director, Savannah River National Laboratory
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (June 2008)

George Fletcher
Executive Director, "New Carolina"
South Carolina Council on Competitiveness
Topic: Clusters & the SC Council on Competitiveness (May 2008)

James Little
President, Washington Safety Management Solutions
Washington Division of URS Corporation (March 2008)

Mr. Jeffrey M. Allison
Manager, Savannah River Operations Office
U.S. Department of Energy (February 2008)

Mr. William C. Ostendorff
Deputy Administrator
National Nuclear Security Administration (October 2007)

Dr. Catherine Chang
Radiation Oncologist
Medical College of Georgia
Topic: The Role of Radiation Technology in the Fight against Breast Cancer
  (Special Dinner Event, with National Managers Association)
Mr. Jim Lathren
President, Leadership Institute
Topic: Leadership in a Challenging Healthcare Industry (October 2007)

Mr. James Rispoli, P.E.
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management
United States Department of Energy
(Special Dinner Event) (August 2007)

Dr. Regis Matzie
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Westinghouse Electric Company
Topic: Westinghouse's Advanced Reactor Portfolio - A Look to the Future (July 2007)

David Stinson,
President,
Shaw AREVA MOX Services
Topic: MOX 2007: Construction, The Next Step (June 2007)

Dr. George Wicks,
Consulting Scientist,
Savannah River National Laboratory
Topic: SRNL Joint Research with Medical College of Georgia (May 2007)

James Latham,
Vice President, Barnwell Operations
Chem-Nuclear Systems
Topic: Commercial Radioactive Waste Disposal in South Carolina (April 2007)

Dr. Kari Fredericksen,
Associate Professor and Director, Summersell Center
at the University of Alabama
Topic: The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization
in Aiken in the 1950s and 1960s (March 2007)

Dr. Tom Hinton,
Senior Research Scientist, University of Georgia's
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Topic: Radiation Effects on Plants & Animals at Chernobyl (October 2006)

J. Barnie Beasley,
Chairman, President and CEO,
Southern Nuclear Operating Company (August 2006)

Ambassador Linton Brooks,
Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
U.S. Department of Energy (June 2006)

Dr. Ramon Figueroa, Professor of Radiology and Chief,
Neuroradiology Service, Medical College of Georgia
Topic: 3-Tesla MRI: Concepts & Applications (May 2006)

Dr. Alan Waltar, Senior Advisor to the
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Topic: Radiation and Modern Life: Fulfilling Marie Curie's Dream (March 2006)

Dr. Harold McFarlane, Depute Associate Laboratory Director
Idaho National Laboratory
Topic: America's Energy Security in a Global Context (February 2006)

Dr. Paul Bertsch, Director
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory
Topic: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory: Past, Present, & Future (October 2005)

Jerry Paul, Principal Deputy Administrator
National Nuclear Security Administration, USDOE
Topic: South Carolina's Important Role in National Security and
Nuclear Nonproliferation (September 2005)

Dr. Ned Sauthoff, U.S. Project Manager for ITER
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Topic: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor: Demonstrating
the Scientific and Technological Feasibility of Fusion Power (July 2005)

Tiajuana Cochnauer, Assistant Manager, Information & External Relations,
USDA Forest Service-Savannah River
Topic: How the Forest Service cares for SRS land and serves you, the people (June 2005)

Dr. Dale Klein, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear, Chemical, & Biological Defense Programs,
United States Department of Defense (May 2005)

Mike Campbell, Vice President of Lasers & Inertial Confinement Fusion Programs
Topic: Building New Nuclear Plants (February 2005)

Mr. Dan Keuter, Vice President, Nuclear Business Development, Entergy Nuclear
Topic: Building New Nuclear Plants (January 2005)

Mr. Preston Rahe, Jr., President of Washington Group International & Environment Operating Unit
Topic: Back To The Future - WGI and CSRA Continuing A Fifteen Year Heritage of Reinvention
(September 2004)

Dr. Edwardo Farfan, Assist. Professor, SCSU, U.Florida
Dr. Marc Galand, Assist Professor, USC, U.Maryland
Dr. Travis Knight, Assist. Professor, USC, U. Florida, Ms. Valencita Valdes, Assist. Professor, SCSU, MIT
Topic: Nuclear Engineering Education Comes To South Carolina: A Discussion on New Programs
(July 2004)

Dr. Dan Lafontine, Director of the South Carolina Meat-Poultry Inspection Department
Topic: Using Food Irradiation For Food Safety (May 2004)

Mr. Tom Christopher, President and Chief Executive Officer of Framatome Advanced Nuclear Power, Inc. (Framatome ANP, Inc.)
Topic: The Future of Commercial Power in the U.S. (March 2004)

Dr. Hadyn Williams, Associate Professor, Medical College of Georgia, and Section Chief for Nuclear Medicine
Topic: New Developments in Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography (February 2004)

Mr. Kenneth Baker, Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation for DOE;s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Topic: The US Nuclear Nonproliferation Program (October 2003)

Mr. Ted Quinn, Consultant on Nuclear Support Services, Past President of ANS and author
Topic: Advanced Reactors and the Future of Nuclear Energy (September 2003)

Congressman Gresham Barrett, U.S. Representative for SC's 3rd Congressional District
Topic: Legislative Issues on Nuclear Activities (August 2003)

Dr. Robert Brownlee, Nuclear Weapons Consultant
Topic: Nuclear Weapons Testing Program (July 2003)

Dr. Dade Moeller, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health
Topic: The Scientific Basis for Yucca Mountain (May 2003)

Mr. Chris Hamilton, Director of Business and Technology Development at General Atomics
Topic: Status of Fusion Energy Research (April 2003)

Dr. William A. Summers, Program Manager, Hydrogen Technology Laboratory Savannah River Technology Center
Topic: Hydrogen: The Freedom Fuel (February 2003)

Larry R. Foulke, President/President-Elect, American Nuclear Society
Topic: A Perspective: ANS and the Future of Nuclear Power in the United States (January 2003)

Ambassador Linton F. Brooks, Acting Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Topic: NNSA Of The Future (November 2002)

Mr. William Magwood, IV, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Energy
Topic: Initiatives For Nuclear Energy, Science, And Technology (October 2002)

Dr. Ralph DiSibio, Executive Vice president Washington Group International, Inc. and President of Energy & Environment Unit
Topic: Washington Group International, Inc. Energy & Environment (June 2002)

Dr. William Hoehn, Visiting Professor & Coca-Cola Foundation Eminent Practitioner in Residence, The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topic: A Citizen's Guide to Counter-Terrorism & Homeland Defense (May 2002)

General John A. Gordon, Under Secretary of Nuclear Security & Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), US Department of Energy
Topic: NNSA's Role In National Defense And Counter-Terrorism (April 2002)

John T. Conway, Chairman, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Topic: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and 12 Years Of Work (March 2002)

Dr. Andres Kadak, Professor Nuclear Engineering Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Topic: The Politically Correct Reactor (August 2001)

Dr. Paul Robinson, President, Sandia Corporation and Director, Sandia National Laboratories
Topic: Preserving Peace in the 21st Century (May 2001)

Dr. Ruth Weiner, Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of New Mexico
Teaching a graduate course in radioactive waste disposal.
Topic: Radioactive Materials Transportation: Mobile Chernobyl? (April 2001)

Dr. Robert Addis, Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in Environmental Sciences
Topic: Global Warming: Is It Real? (March 2001)

Dr. John R. Cameron, Founder of Radiation, Science & Health, Inc.
Topic: The Good News About Radiation (February 2001)

Mr. William Magwood, IV, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science & Technology,
U.S. Dept. of Energy
Topic: Prospects for Nuclear Science, Technology and Power in the U.S. (October 2000)

Dr. Dennis Erickson, Director of ES&H, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Topic: Los Alamos and the Grand Cerro Fire: Lessons Learned for SRS (August 2000)

Ambrose Schwallie, Former President Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
Topic: Who We Are and Where We Are Going (May 2000)

Dr. James A. Lake, President Elect, American Nuclear Society
Topic: The 4th Generation of Nuclear Power: Emerging Priorities for Nuclear Energy (April 2000)

Emory D. Collins, Senior Technical Advisor, Chemical Technology Div.,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Topic: Radioisotopes: Production & Use in Industry (March 2000)

Gary K. Bertsch, Director, Center for Intn'l Trade & Security, University of Georgia
Topic: National Security: How Will We Meet 21st Century Challenges? (December 1999)

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