William Alison Anders is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) major general,former electrical engineer,nuclear engineer,NASA astronaut,and businessman. In December 1968,he was a member of the crew of Apollo 8,the first three people to leave low Earth orbit and travel to the Moon. Along with fellow astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell,Anders circled the Moon ten times,and broadcast live images and commentary back to Earth. During one of the mission's lunar orbits,he took the iconic Earthrise photograph.
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island,Unit 2 (TMI-2) reactor on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township,Pennsylvania,near the Pennsylvania capital of Harrisburg. It began at 4 a.m. on March 28,1979,and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point International Nuclear Event Scale,it is rated Level 5 –Accident with Wider Consequences.
Vernon James Ehlers was an American physicist and politician who represented Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 until his retirement in 2011. A Republican,he also served eight years in the Michigan Senate and two in the Michigan House of Representatives.
The Crystal River Nuclear Plant also called the Crystal River 3 Nuclear Power Plant,or simply CR-3,is a closed nuclear power plant located in Crystal River,Florida. The facility is currently being decommissioned. The power plant was completed and licensed to operate in December 1976,and operated safely for 33 years until shutdown in September 2009. It was the third plant built as part of the 4,700-acre (1,900 ha) Crystal River Energy Complex (CREC) which contains a single nuclear power plant,while sharing the site with four operational fossil fuel power plants.
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) is a federally funded independent governmental agency,concerned with research and development of nuclear power,promotion of nuclear science,energy conservation and the peaceful usage of nuclear technology.
The Karachi Nuclear Power Plant is a large commercial nuclear power plant located at the Paradise Point in Karachi,Sindh,Pakistan.
Helmut Gunter Wilhelm Panke is a German manager and physicist who has been holding board membership in several companies - Microsoft,Bayer AG and Singapore Airlines. During the past recent 30 years,Panke's management career spread over several companies,including e.g. serving as the chairman of the board of management at BMW AG from May 2002 through August 2006.
Manson Benedict was an American nuclear engineer and a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 1958 to 1968,he was the chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Khaled Toukan is the current chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission,he served previously as the Minister of Energy for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2011),Minister of Education (2000-2008),and as Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research (2001–2002).
Ivan Selin is an American businessman,and former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Under Secretary of State for Management. Selin is a Fulbright Scholar and graduate of Yale University and University of Paris. He was born in New York City.
JoséAntonio Garcia Jr.,known as Joe Garcia,is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented Florida's 26th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat,Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys in Congress.
Ernst Volgenau is a retired United States Air Force office and founder and former CEO of SRA International. He later served as chairman of the board for the company,and rector of the George Mason University board of visitors.
Nils Yngve Wessell was an American psychologist and the eighth president of Tufts University from 1953 to 1966,overseeing its transformation from a small liberal arts college to an internationally known research university.
Naiyyum Choudhury was a Bangladeshi biotechnologist and a nuclear scientist. He pioneered the development and adoption of the National Biotechnology policy of Bangladesh. He served as the Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission,and also served in many important positions in Bangladesh. He was serving as the founding Chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) at the time of his death. He was the Chairman of the Department of Microbiology,Dhaka University,Professor and Coordinator of Biotechnology at BRAC University,and served as faculty member in Jahangir Nagar University and BUET. He was also the IAEA Regional Cooperation Agreement (RCA) Chair person. He was also a fellow of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS),and was serving as the Vice President of BAS at the time of his death. He was also the contact person for Inter Academic Panel (IAP) of Bangladesh.
Abraham Babalola Borishade was a Nigerian politician. He was a four time Federal Minister in Nigeria,between 1999-2011. He was known as an electrical engineer,teacher and political strategist.
Joseph Mallam Hendrie is a former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). On August 9,1977 he was named to a four-year term on the Commission and designated as its chairman by President Jimmy Carter. From 1975 to 1977,Hendrie had served as chairman of the Department of Applied Science at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Arnold "Arnie" Gundersen is a former nuclear industry executive,and engineer with more than 44 years of nuclear industry experience who became a whistleblower in 1990. Gundersen has written dozens of expert reports for nongovernment organizations and the state of Vermont. Gunderson was a licensed reactor operator from 1971-1972 on Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's zero-power open-pool university research reactor at the Reactor Critical Facility in Schenectady,New York,where he was a nuclear engineering graduate student.
Eileen Gail de Planque was an American nuclear physicist. An expert on environmental radiation measurements,she was the first woman and first health physicist to become a Commissioner at the US government's Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Her technical areas of expertise included environmental radiation,nuclear facilities monitoring,personnel dosimetry,radiation shielding,radiation transport,and solid state dosimetry.
Dade Moeller was an internationally known expert in radiation safety and environmental protection.
Richard A. "Dick" Meserve is an American lawyer and scientist. He served as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1999 to 2003 and served as President of the Carnegie Institution for Science from 2003 to 2014.
