Appendix B

Biographies of Planning Committee and Staff

JOHN S. APPLEGATE (Chair) is executive vice president for University Academic Affairs of Indiana University (IU) and the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law in the IU Maurer School of Law. He has served as a vice president for IU since 2008. He teaches and has written extensively in the fields of environmental law, administrative law, regulation of chemicals and hazardous wastes, international environmental law, risk assessment, and the management of radioactive waste. He chaired the Fernald Citizens Advisory Board at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Fernald facility in Ohio from 1993 to 1998, and he served on the DOE Environmental Management Advisory Board from 1994 to 2001. He has also served on several Academies studies. A member of the American Law Institute, Professor Applegate has also taught at the University of Paris (Panthéon-Assas) and University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and has been a research fellow at Cardiff University. Before moving to Indiana, he was the James B. Helmer, Jr., Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and was a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University Law School. He was a judicial law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and an attorney in private practice in Washington, D.C. Professor Applegate received his B.A. in English from Haverford College in 1978 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981.

LARRY W. CAMPER is an executive consultant with Advoco Professional Services, LLC, and senior nuclear safety consultant with Talisman International. Mr. Camper retired from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) in September 2015, as the director of the Division of Decommissioning, Uranium Recovery and Waste Programs. For the preceding 10

years, Mr. Camper served as the director of the Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection in the Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management Programs. Prior to assuming that position, Mr. Camper served in several Senior Executive Service positions within the USNRC including: 2 years as the deputy director, Spent Fuel Project Office; 4 years as the chief, Decommissioning Branch; and 4 years as the chief, Materials Safety Branch. Mr. Camper also served for 10 years as the U.S. Representative to the Waste Safety Standards Advisory Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Camper is an experienced health physicist, radiation safety expert, environmental remediation expert, and executive. He has more than 40 years of professional experience with various aspects of the nuclear industry within both the private and public sectors including: radiation safety; medical, research and academic uses; commercial uses; industrial uses; environmental assessment and management; LLW oversight; uranium recovery; decommissioning of reactors and complex material sites; and spent fuel management and performance assessment. Mr. Camper received a B.S. degree in radiological science and administration (School of Medicine and Health Care Sciences) and an M.S. degree in administration (School of Business), both from George Washington University. Mr. Camper also completed graduate course work in applied health physics at Oak Ridge Associate Universities, and he completed a graduate-level Certificate in Implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act from Duke University, co-sponsored by the Council on Environmental Quality. Mr. Camper completed a certificate in Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Executive Education.

JENNIFER A. HEIMBERG is a senior program officer in the Division of Earth and Life Studies (DELS) and the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE). In her work for the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board in DELS, she has focused on nuclear security, nuclear detection capabilities, and environmental management issues, and she has directed studies and workshops related to nuclear proliferation, nuclear terrorism, and the management of nuclear wastes. She directed a DBASSE study on assessing approaches for updating the U.S. metric known as the Social Cost of Carbon. Previously, she worked as a program manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where she established its nuclear security program with the Department of Homeland Security’s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. She has a B.S. in physics from Georgetown University, a B.S.E.E. from Catholic University, and a Ph.D. in physics from Northwestern University.

REBECCA A. ROBBINS is currently the predisposal unit head at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. In this role she is responsible for working with IAEA member states to develop and disseminate IAEA guidance in all aspects of the processing, packaging, and storage of all type of radioactive waste. She has more than 20 years of experience in the nuclear industry in both the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States. Dr. Robbins has supported and led projects related to the cleanup of legacy wastes including transuranic waste at Idaho National Laboratory site and Hanford tank waste. She earned a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Leeds, UK.

NINA D. ROSENBERG has 25 years of experience in both technical and leadership roles at two of DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration national laboratories. She is currently the program director of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Dr. Rosenberg previously worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1998 to 2011. Also, she was a staff scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at LANL from 1991 to 1998. Dr. Rosenberg is a geoscientist with experience in subsurface contaminant transport and remediation, water resources, and geologic repositories for nuclear waste. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, in geological and geophysical sciences from Princeton University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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