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CNTA Board of Directors

Dr. Susan Wood, Chair
Vice-Chair [vacant]
Paul Rideout, Treasurer
Clint Wolfe, Executive Director
Jimmy Angelos
Rick Arkin
Mark Bolton
Melvin R. Buckner
Fred Cavanaugh (Ex-officio)
Tom Hallman
Charles Hansen
Lyddie Hansen
Fred Humes
Walt Joseph
Casey Kenney
Craig McMullin

Karen Patterson
John Paveglio
Ed Presnell (Ex-officio)
James Rawson
William Reinig
Wayne Rickman
Ron Schroder
Steve Sheetz
Art Stackpole
Brad Swanson
Major Thompson
Kathryn Wade
Robert Weiler
Dr. Susan Winsor
Keith Wood

Chair
Dr. Susan Wood

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.

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).

She has previously served on the DOD Defense Science Board and as a mentor for the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG) at the Institute for Defense Analyses. She was appointed by the Governor of South Carolina to serve on the Technology Council in 1997 and in 2001 to serve on the Technology Transition Team Steering Committee. She is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Women in Engineering Program Advocates Network (WEPAN) and is an active role model for engaging young women in the engineering professions. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for CNTA, sits on the Board of Trustees for the South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA), and on the Board of Directors for the Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy.

Treasurer
Paul Rideout

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.

Executive Director
Clinton R. Wolfe

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.

Dr. Wolfe has engaged vigorously in education and community outreach and in technology transfer. His complete resume is posted here.

Jimmy Angelos

Jimmy Angelos is a Senior Vice President for URS Energy and Environment and manages the E&E Consulting Services business. Prior to this assignment, Jimmy served as Vice President at Washington Savannah River Company (WSRC) for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Program (NNP). In this capacity, Mr. Angelos led and directed the domestic and international nonproliferation program. His organization provided engineering design, engineering review, technical consultation, and programmatic support to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

Mr. Angelos has more than 33 years of experience in government chemical and nuclear operations facilities. He managed a variety of programs at SRS including maintenance engineering, waste management, chemical separations, infrastructure, fuel fabrication, research and development, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, welding/NDE inspections, NNSA Defense Programs, and Nuclear Nonproliferation. He also managed a variety of major projects at SRS including a new Naval Fuel fabrication facility, a new tritium supply facility, and the NNSA plutonium disposition projects. His areas of expertise include design, operations and maintenance management, financial management, quality assurance, R&D, strategic mission development, program management, and project management.

Mr. Angelos earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, both from the University of South Carolina. Jimmy resides in Aiken, SC with his wife, Christine. He has four children, Tim, a partner with New York Life in Charleston, SC; Patrick, a doctor in Portland, Oregon; John, a chemical engineering Ph.D./MBA student at MIT; and Bridget, a nurse at Aiken Regional.

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.

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.

Mr. Arkin also served 11 years as the Deputy Director for Transportation Safeguards in Albuquerque NM, safely and securely transporting nuclear weapons and special nuclear materials throughout the Continental United States over 64 million miles without an accident resulting in a fatality, injury, or compromise to the safety or security of the cargo. Mr. Arkin served as a U.S. Army aviator for 25-years, and completed multiple combat tours as a helicopter pilot and commander. He has a BA in Urban Planning from the University of Maryland and a Masters in Business Administration from Frostburg State University. He received a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service in 2008.

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.

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).

At present, Dr. Buckner is involved in the coordination of university programs for SRS and is the liaison with Site Integration and Program Development for new mission activities such as plutonium disposition, advanced fuel cycle initiatives, and the SRS energy park, including nuclear hydrogen production and university research reactor. He is also responsible for professional recruiting for SRTC (primarily of candidates with M.S. or Ph.D. degrees).

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).

Dr. Buckner is a member of the Citizens for Nuclear Technology Awareness Board of Directors and is active in the CNTA's Speakers Bureau.

Fred Cavanaugh

Fred has been Aiken's Mayor for 13 years and before that he was a city councilman for 17 years. Although he was a native of Richmond, Virginia, 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.

Dr. Tom Hallman

Dr. Hallman is Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer at the University of South Carolina Aiken.

After joining USCA in 1983, Hallman has served as institutional liaison with several regional groups in matters related to sponsored research and local economic development. Dr. Hallman serves on the Savannah River Regional Diversification Initiative, as chair of both the Savannah River Site Redevelopment Authority and the Aiken Region Salvation Army Advisory Board, and as a member of the Rotary Club of Aiken and the Aiken County Strategic Planning Committee.

Charles A. Hansen

Charlie Hansen is Vice President in the Systems, Defense and Security Division of Parsons Corporation. He is responsible for developing effective solutions to treat radioactive liquid waste at the Savannah River Site and other locations. He serves at Parsons' Aiken, South Carolina office.

Mr. Hansen has more than 38 years of experience in technical direction and project execution for both government and private industry. Most recently, he served as Assistant Manager, Waste Disposition Project, at SRS with the Department of Energy, and previously served as the site's Deputy Manager.

Hansen directed the DOE spent nuclear fuel project and the liquid and solid waste disposal programs at Hanford, Washington from 1995 to 1999. He also directed submarine nuclear propulsion plant design, construction, repair, reactor refueling, and testing. He was responsible for the construction and overhaul of 43 nuclear submarines at Charleston Naval Shipyard and Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics from 1972 to 1987.

Charlie received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University and served in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1972.

Lyddie Hansen

Lyddie began her nuclear career in the commercial nuclear industry in the early 1980s at the River Bend Nuclear Power Station in Louisiana.

She left River Bend and became a part owner of a small consulting firm (RI-Tech, Inc.) that specialized in training, procedure, and quality assurance services for commercial nuclear and DOE sites. In this capacity, she had a year-long contract at SRS in 1990. Later she worked a number of task orders for Argonne National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory, and the Hanford Reservation. She also spent 4 years working under contract at the Pantex Site.

She returned to SRS in 1998 and has served in a variety of roles. Today, she is employed by SRNS where she is assigned to provide support to Nuclear Material Storage Project.

Lyddie joined CNTA in 2002. She and her husband Charlie have been active supporters of CNTA. Lyddie has served for a number of years on the CNTA Golf Committee and is a member of the CNTA Membership Committee.

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.

Mr. Humes enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1962 and became a commissioned officer in 1965. He entered the USAF Pilot Training program three years later and received his pilot wings in 1969. After advanced pilot training, Fred served 13 months in Vietnam and returned to the United States as a Flight Instructor. Mr. Humes's flying career included the F-4, OV-10, T-39 and C-141 aircraft as a line pilot, instructor, and flight examiner. He served in various capacities at Major Air Command Headquarters, U.S. Air Force Headquarters, and the Pentagon staff and operational assignments. He is a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College. He completed his Air Force career in 1983 after a four-year staff tour at the Pentagon.

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.

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.

He is a graduate Mechanical Engineer with a BE degree from North Carolina State College and a MS from the Pennsylvania State University. He served as an officer in the US Army Ordnance Corps in Korea during the conflict. His initial assignments at SRS were in the Savannah River Laboratory doing research and development on reactor hydraulics and heat transfer and irradiation effects of structural materials. He transferred to the Savannah River Plant for varied assignments including managing the Traffic and Transportation Department, the L-Reactor restart project, and Site Quality. Walt is an enthusiastic historian, a long-time member of the Aiken County Historical Commission, and a life member of the Archaeological Society of South Carolina.

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.

Mr. McMullin has more than 35 years of professional experience, which includes 15 years in the commercial nuclear industry and 20 years of management experience at Department of Energy sites.

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).

Previously, Mr. McMullin was a startup and test engineer responsible for plant system testing for General Public Utilities at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station Units 1 and 2. As a systems design engineer and manager of a multi-disciplinary design organization at Combustion Engineering, Inc. he received two U.S. patents. He was also on loan to the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations in Atlanta GA and qualified as a Maintenance Evaluator, performing conduct of maintenance assessments at many commerical nuclear power plants across the country.

He has co-authored six technical papers in the areas of operations, maintenance, and plant life extension techniques and productivity enhancements for commerical nuclear power plants and DOE facilities. Mr. McMullin is a member of the American Nuclear Society and has been a CNTA Board Member for 6 years.

Mr. McMullin is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering. He also received a Master of Business Administration from Western New England College.

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.

Karen is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Wake Forest University, and Leadership South Carolina, and, as if that weren't enough, has a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of South Carolina. She served on the SRS Citizens Advisory Board for 10 years and was Chair for 4 years. She currently is a member of the South Carolina Governor's Nuclear Advisory Council, and of the Randolph-Macon Woman's College Alumnae Association Board of Directors.

John Paveglio

John W. Paveglio is Vice President at Energy Solutions, and is responsible for all corporate, contract, financial, and community-outreach activities. He previously served as Business Manager, Deputy General Manager, and Program Manager of the Solid Waste and Infrastructure Project.

Mr. Paveglio has filled management and engineering positions at BNFL, Stone & Webster Engineering, and Dravo Corporation. He acquired a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Clarkson University.

Ed Presnell

Ed is President of the Greater Augusta Chamber of Commerce.

James Rawson

Dr. James Vincent Rawson, Warren Professor and Chairman of the Department of Radiology at the Medical College of Georgia, completed a fellowship in Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Mallinkrodt Institute of Radiology in 1995. He completed a residency in Diagnostic Radiology at New York Medical College and was Senior Chief Resident from 1993 to 1994. He is certified by the American Board of Radiology.

Dr. Rawson's current interests are magnetic resonance body imaging, computer networking and PACS, and Radiology administration. He has done research on the application of MR imaging to the pelvis, abdomen, and the liver and has published techniques for pediatric body MRI.

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.

Mr. Reinig has served on many national and international Health Physics organizations. For years, Bill was Vice Chairman of CNTA's Board until he relocated to Annapolis, Maryland. but still serves on our Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

Wayne Rickman

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.

During his 31 years in the Navy, he had tours in destroyers and in nuclear submarines. He commanded the USS Henry Clay (SSBN-625) and was fortunate to command the commissioning crew of the USS Michigan (SSBN-727), the second Trident submarine. After an assignment as Special Assistant to Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion, DOE, he was selected to the Rank of Rear Admiral (LH). He then commanded the Naval Submarine Group NINE in Silverdale WA. He completed his Naval Service at Commander Training U.S. Atlantic Fleet, where he was responsible for 14 training centers and afloat training from Rhode Island to the Panama Canal.

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.

He lives in Aiken with his wife Sharon and both are active in community activities.

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.

Mr. Sheetz is currently supporting a multi-lab program called the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative. This program is investigating technologies that will improve the utilization of commercial power reactor fuel while consuming the plutonium and minimizing the volume and toxicity of the wastes.

Steve was a founding member of CNTA. He serves on the Board of Directors and chairs the speaker's bureau. He lives in Augusta with his wife, Lisa, and his two teenage daughters.

Kathryn Wade

Kathryn attended the University of South Carolina, where she earned a B.S. degree in Psychology. In 1999, she earned a Masters Degree in Counseling from the Biblical Seminary at Columbia International University.

Kathryn is a Field Representative for Congressman J. Gresham Barrett, South Carolina Third District. She is married to Robert and they have one son.

Robert J. Weiler

Robert Weiler is Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Business Development with AREVA Federal Services, LLC, where he has led new business acquisition strategies and now provides executive leadership of the Savannah River programs and regional office. He recently led the ongoing transition of the SRS Liquid Waste Operations contract.

Weiler has more than 35 years of experience in marketing, sales, business development, project development, and operations management of engineering, construction, industrial, and environmental companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech.

R. Keith Wood

Keith Wood is the Director of Washington Savannah River Company's (WSRC's) Public Affairs Division. In this position, he focuses on external and site communications; government affairs at the local, state, and federal levels; community relations; public involvement and Citizens Advisory Board support; economic transition; education outreach; and new mission support.

Mr. Wood is very active in the community, holding positions over the years on executive committees for CNTA and the Aiken Chamber of Commerce (Vice Chairman in 2007); the Aiken County United Way Board of Directors (Chair in 2007) the City of Aiken Election Commission; the Aiken Partnership Board; and St. Paul Lutheran Church. He is a graduate of the South Carolina Exective Institute and Leadership Aiken County.

Executive Director Emeritus and Consultant
J. Malvyn "Mal" McKibben

Mal McKibben obtained a BA degree in Chemistry from Emory University in 1955, and while there was the student leader for two years on an ORNL contract to determine fission yields of proton bombarded heavy isotopes. From June 1955 until January 2000, Mal was employed by E. I. Du Pont, then Westinghouse, at SRP/SRS. Technical assignments included support of SRP's production reactors and the Heavy Water Components Test Reactor, development of analytical chemistry methods, spent nuclear fuel reprocessing, special isotope separations, and research on radionuclide separations. Managerial assignments included technical oversight of the two SRP separations facilities, and Senior Project Manager for design and construction of the $2 B Defense Waste Processing Facility. His last assignment at SRS was as Senior Advisory Scientist for Advanced Planning.

Mal is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), where he currently serves as Chairman of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division and as a member of the ANS Planning Committee. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and past member of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management, American National Standards Institute, and the American Society of Testing Materials. Mal has authored about 35 technical publications and papers.

The South Carolina House and Senate honored Mal in 2000 with a joint resolution commending him for outstanding service to the community and the nation.