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1204 Whiskey Rd, Suite B
CNTA Board of Directors |
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Chair Susan Wood retired from the position of Director of the Savannah River Technology Center on October 30, 2002 after holding this position for more than 8 years. She previously led the Materials Technology Division at the Westinghouse Corporate R&D Center in Pittsburgh for three years followed by four years managing the Manufacturing Technology Center for (then) Westinghouse Electronic Systems in Baltimore. Dr. Wood holds an Hons. B.Sc. in Physics from the University of Manchester in England, and an M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering and Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. She spent twelve years in Materials R&D, including work on fusion, breeder, and light water reactor materials prior to her executive management experience. |
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Dr. Wood was selected as the first Distinguished Alumna of the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering in 1997, where she served as an external advisory board member for more than fifteen years. She also received the Society of Women Engineers' 1997 Upward Mobility Award and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer's 1999 Laboratory Director of the Year Award. In 2001, the Savannah River Chapter of the National Management Association (NMA) named her Executive of the Year, and in 2002, she received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness (CNTA).
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Vice Chair
Wayne Rickman hails from Neosho MO, where he graduated from Neosho High School in 1955. He attended the US Naval Academy graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1959. He received a Master's degree in Computer Management from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA in 1970.
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Upon his retirement in 1990, he joined Sonalysts Inc. (a broad-based consulting company) where he became Vice President for Nuclear Operations. He consulted with the Department of Energy on various phases of management. His work started with DOE and K-Reactor restart. It evolved into Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs) at all the major DOE sites. He also conducted Training reviews throughout the DOE major facilities. He is heavily involved with DOE Headquarters in execution of Integrated Safety Management verification reviews. He also assisted in operational improvements at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Technical Area 55, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Westinghouse Hanford Company's Plutonium Finishing Plant. After 10 years with Sonalysts, he formed Rickman Group and continued with similar work assignments.
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Treasurer Paul Rideout is an Aiken native who obtained a business degree from Clemson University. He has had twenty-one years of banking experience and as a controller for corporations. He has always been active in community affairs, serving in Chambers of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, and the American Heart Association. Paul now is Vice President and Commercial Loan Officer for Security Federal Bank in Aiken. |
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Executive Director Clint Wolfe took over the reins as Executive Director in January 2008. He obtained B.S. in Chemistry degree from Marshall University (1958-1962) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1966) from the University of New Mexico, with a combined minor in Math and Physics. He worked at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with plutonium salts and alloys, then participated in research and problem-solving for 12 years at the Westinghouse R&D Center. He led research for ten years on nuclear steam generator corrosion issues at the Westinghouse Service Technology Division while managing groups responsible for nuclear power plant water chemistry and materials corrosion. In 1988, he joined Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC), where he managed the Strategic Materials Technology Department in the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) from 1996 until his retirement in 2005. |
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Dr. Wolfe has engaged vigorously in education and community outreach and in technology transfer. His complete resume is posted here.
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Richard Arkin Richard Arkin retired after 40 years of federal service in April 2008. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, his last assignment was serving as the National Nuclear Security Administration Savannah River Site Office Manager for Defense Program operations at the Savannah River Site. During this period, Mr. Arkin provided the federal leadership in completing the construction and startup of the Nation's only Tritium Extraction Facility, reintroduced newly produced tritium into the nuclear weapons stockpile after a 15-year hiatus, and successfully transferred $11 billion worth of prime contracting from the DOE Chicago Operations Office to SRS for managing the largest nonproliferation construction projects in the world. |
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Prior to being assigned to the SRS, Mr. Arkin was the Deputy Associate Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Administration in Washington DC, charged with managing the Department of Energy's emergency management and emergency operations program nationwide. Additionally he was responsible for leading the Nation's and Department's radiological emergency response and counterterrorism assets responding to emergencies and emerging terrorist threats.
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Mark Bolton Mr. Bolton is director of the Security Planning and Infrastructure Division of Wackenhut Services Inc., the security contractor at the Savannah River Site. Mr. Bolton has 20 years' experience at SRS, having worked as security inspector, central alarm station sergeant, emergency operations center specialist and other positions. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of South Carolina Aiken and resides in Aiken with his wife, Terri, and their two children. |
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Dr. Melvin R. Buckner
Mel is a nuclear engineer with over 33 years of experience at Savannah River Site (SRS), having served for 14 years with Westinghouse and 19 years with DuPont in a wide variety of professional and management positions. He is currently the Program Manager of University Relations and Senior Consultant in the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL).
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Mel is a native of Tennessee and holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the University of Tennessee. He has produced more than 50 publications in a variety of technical areas including computational methods, statistics, reactor safety and analysis, environmental, waste management, plutonium disposition, tritium production options, medical isotope production, and nuclear nonproliferation. He is an active member in the American Nuclear Society both locally (previously as Chairman and now as a member of the Executive Committee - ANS Savannah River Section) and nationally (as Chairman of the ANS President's Special Committee on Nuclear Nonproliferation for four years).
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Dean Campbell
Dean Campbell is the Manager of Savannah River Remediation, LLC's Public Affairs Division, a position to which he was appointed in 2008. He focuses on external and Site communications; government affairs at the local, state and federal levels; community relations; public involvement; education outreach; and new mission support.
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Mr. Campbell joined Washington Savannah River Company, now SRR, in 1989 and has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility in the Public Affairs field, including Lead Public Information Specialist to Manager of Liquid Waste internal and external communications.
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James H. Corley
Jim Corley is Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at Georgia Health Sciences University Medical College of Georgia (MCG). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Georgia, and is Board Certified in Nuclear Pharmacy.
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John Gregory
Mr. Gregory is Project Manager for AREVA at the Department of Energy Savannah River Site. His experience has encompassed many areas in the nuclear field, including management of a large Department of Energy group of facilities, project management, waste management, D&D planning, developing and revising policy/procedures documents, training personnel, troubleshooting, and resolution of plant problems. He has led or participated in numerous readiness assessments of new facilities and new operations at existing facilities.
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Dr. Tom Hallman
Dr. Hallman is Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer at the University of South Carolina Aiken.
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Fred Humes
Fred is Director of the Aiken/Edgefield Economic Development Partnership. He is a native of Charleston, South Carolina where he graduated from Chicora High School in 1958. He attended and graduated from North Greenville Junior College. Later, he was awarded a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee and an M.S. in Business Management from Troy State University.
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Fred began a second career with a nationally syndicated television show in Aiken, South Carolina, and in 1987 co-founded a video production company where he was President until 1990, when he join the Economic Development Partnership. The Partnership represents the economic development interests of Aiken and Edgefield Counties. Since joining the Partnership, more than $5.0 billion and 10,000 jobs have been announced in Aiken and Edgefield Counties. Mr. Humes has been recognized twice as the "Economic Development Practitioner of the Year" by Southern Business and Development Magazine. He was selected in 2003 as one of the Top Ten Economic Developers of the Decade by the same magazine. Mr. Humes is a member of the Board of Directors and Past President of the South Carolina Economic Developers Association (SCEDA) and Past Director of the Southern Economic Development Council (SEDC). He is a member of several civic organizations and is Past President of the North Augusta Rotary Club. He currently serves a member of the Board of Directors of the Savannah River Regional Diversification Initiative, the Savannah River Site Redevelopment Authority, the Aiken County School to Work Consortium, and various other organizations. He is a Certified Economic Developer by the State of South Carolina.
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Paul Hunt
Paul Hunt is Senior Vice President of Environmental Management Operations for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS). He is responsible for safe execution of all environmental management operations at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS). This includes completion of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects and consolidation of waste management assets and resources.
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Paul directed an international consulting team at the United Kingdom's largest nuclear weapons site, focusing on identifying and implementing cost-savings initiatives in life-cycle decommissioning and waste management. Hunt was also the manager of Waste Management Projects for West Valley Environmental Services, and worked for 17 years in waste operations at SRS, including deputy manager of the H-Area Disposition Project and manager of Solid Waste Operations.
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J. Walter Joseph
Walt was employed for 39 years at the Savannah River Site in a variety of technical and management positions for E.I. Du Pont and the Westinghouse Savannah River Co.
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S. Casey Kenney
Casey Kenney is Executive Vice President for Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC and the MOX Fuel Fabrication project. The scope of work is for the design and construction of the facility, which currently employs more than 1500 personnel and is estimated to cost approximately $5 billion.
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Craig W. McMullin
Craig McMullin is Savannah River Nuclear Solutions' program manager for the Savannah River Site's (SRS) Integrated Facility Aging Management program. He manages system, structures, and component life extension assessments for the Enriched Uranium Disposition Project.
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He served as Deputy Area Project Manager for five years, responsible for excess facility operations, D&D program and project development, and receipt and storage of nuclear materials supporting the deinventory of DOE production sites. Also, as a project manager for ABB Combustion Engineering, Mr. McMullin helped establish a local field office at SRS and managed operations and maintenance engineers in support of K-Reactor Restart. As a project manager for Raytheon Engineers and Constructors (formally Ebasco) at SRS, he was responsible for operations and maintenance tasks for the Project Engineering and Services Contract (PESC).
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Karen Patterson
Karen is a project manager and the Environmental Services Group Manager for the Tetra Tech NUS, Inc. office in Aiken. Currently she works with utilities seeking license renewals for existing nuclear power reactors or planning to construct new reactors. Previously she worked at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and as a contractor to Savannah River Technology Center (now SRNL), doing ecological research on the SRS. Her areas of expertise are the effects of nuclear facilities on the environment and the National Environmental Policy Act. In 2011, Karen was named Chair of the South Carolina Governor's Nuclear Advisory Council.
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She served on the SRS Citizens Advisory Board for 10 years and was Chair for 4 years. In 2011 she was named Chair of the South Carolina Governor's Nuclear Advisory Council, and serves on the Randolph-Macon Woman's College Alumnae Association Board of Directors.
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John Paveglio
John W. Paveglio was formerly Vice President at Energy Solutions, where he was responsible for all corporate, contract, financial, and community-outreach activities. Before retiring from Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, he served as Business Manager, Deputy General Manager, and Program Manager of the Solid Waste and Infrastructure Project.
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Bill Reinig
Bill was one of the founders of CNTA. He was also one of the first DuPont employees to arrive at SRP in 1951. He conducted environmental surveys of the site prior to the start of construction and went on to manage several organizations at SRP, most notably the Health Physics Department.
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Stephen O. Sheetz
Steve is a mechanical engineer from Georgia Tech with 20 years of experience in the nuclear industry at the Savannah River Site. He was actively involved during the construction and early test operations of the Defense Waste Processing Facility and has supported the Savannah River National laboratory by marketing technologies to the Department of Defense. His work on the Accelerator Production of Tritium project included a three-year assignment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Brad Swanson
Brad Swanson has more than 30 years experience in the nuclear field and is currently serving as the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) Plant Manager, responsible for all operational aspects of commissioning the SWPF. Prior to this assignment Brad spent 3 years managing SWPF design development and reliability/maintainability test program operations. He spent 6 years at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in various management positions including Spent Nuclear Fuel, High Level Waste, and Transuranic Waste operations. He also served as ESH&Q manager at the Test Reactor Area and Radiological manager for the Three Mile Island dry storage project.
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Dr. Major Thompson
Major Thompson is a native of Alabama. He obtained a B.S. in Chemistry from Birmingham Southern College and M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees in inorganic chemistry from Ohio State University. Dr. Thompson has worked at SRS for more than 48 years. He has worked in actinide chemistry and chemical separations, including support of nuclear material production and high- and low-level radioactive waste treatment. He has provided technical and programmatic support to DOE's Office of Environmental Management (EM) at the national level as well as SRS and other DOE site.
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Dr. Thompson has authored or co-authored more than 90 journal articles, chapters in books, articles in symposia proceedings, and technical reports. He is an emeritus member of the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi Society. He is chairman of the selection committee for CNTA's Distinguished Scientist Award.
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Donna Moore Wesby
Donna Moore Wesby is founder and host of weekly radio and television broadcasts entitled "Education Matters with Donna Moore Wesby" appearing on WAAW Shout 94.7 FM radio and Aiken Standard Television Channel 95. She is also founder and owner of The Greatest Gift, an all-occasion gift business. She has been in business eight years and was honored as the 2006 Greater Aiken Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year. Ms. Wesby also writes a regular column in the Aiken Standard newspaper. Ms. Wesby serves on the Aiken County Board of Education, in addition to other responsibilities in her church and other advisory councils and boards within the community.
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Ms. Wesby was employed at the Savannah River Site for 15 years where she served in several public relations and communications assignments for Westinghouse Savannah River Company, including coordinator of the internship and School-to-Work programs. She also worked as executive assistant to two WSRC presidents, becoming the first African American in the site's 50-year history to work in the president's office. She works as a subcontractor at SRS where she manages the SRS Employee Association Store. Ms. Wesby graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism, 1992.
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Dr. Susan Winsor
Dr. Winsor assumed the role of President of Aiken Technical College in 1999, where she provides opportunities for employment and further education for the College's graduates.
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Fred Cavanaugh Fred has been Aiken's Mayor since 1991 and before that he was a city councilman for 17 years. Although he was a native of Richmond VA, his parents moved to Aiken while Fred was in high school. He obtained a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Military Institute, and then served in the Air Force before returning home to work for DuPont at SRP, where he worked for 30 years. Fred has always been an active community leader, and has received many awards and honors, including the 2005 Aiken Chamber of Commerce's "Man of the Year" award. |
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