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Monday, August 9, 1999 Published weekdays except holidays by
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LAWYER-PHYSICIST RICHARD MESERVE
NOMINATED TO THE NRC
TO BE APPOINTED CHAIRMAN ONCE CONFIRMED

Lawyer-Physicist Richard Meserve was nominated to the NRC and will be appointed chairman once confirmed by the Senate, President Clinton announced Friday. If approved, Meserve will fill the seat vacated by Shirley Jackson, who left in July to become president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling and chairs two National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committees. One NAS panel is examining how DOE can maintain international scientific openness while protecting national security interests; the other is focusing on ways to strengthen Russian capabilities for controlling highly enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiles.

Meserve received a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun for a year in the mid-1970s and was legal counsel to the president's science and technology adviser during the Carter administration.

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