Meeting Schedule and Locations
Speaker: Paul Seidler
Robinson/Seidler,
Inc., Henderson, NV
“Some REAL Yucca Mountain
Information”
Time: 12:00
P.M., Wednesday May 25, 2005 Location: SEM 326
Pizza and soft drinks will be served
Abstract:
Paul Seidler has an M.A. in Public Policy from the
University of Chicago
and a B. A. from the University
of Illinois. His interest
in nuclear issues arose in the 1970s when he was an undergraduate student and
became involved in the antinuclear movement. Mr. Seidler
worked on Ted Kennedy’s campaign for president and was President of the campus
Democratic organization. He later worked for Paul Simon in his successful bid
to unseat US Senator Charles Percy.
Mr. Seidler’s views on nuclear issues continued to
evolve when he worked for the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety. Unlike Nevada, Illinois
has a state of the art very proactive system for dealing with nuclear waste.
Paul Seidler was directly involved in escorting and
inspecting spent fuel shipments, but his primary responsibility was setting a
sow-level radioactive waste (LLW) disposal facility. He was the first person to
successfully identify a “volunteer” community to serve as host for a
radioactive waste disposal facility. Several years later he was recruited to
work on the nation’s first high-level geologic repository.
In the late 1980s, Mr. Seidler moved to Las Vegas to work for
Science Applications International Corporation. He was responsible for waste
transportation policy issues and intergovernmental relations. He developed an
excellent working relationship with the rural communities most impacted by the
project and waste transport. These relationships remain strong today. In the
mid 90s he formed his own consulting firm with Ace Robison.
This seminar is sponsored by the Northern Nevada Section of IEEE and NV
Nuclear Energy.
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Department of
Electrical Engineering, Mail Stop 260
University of Nevada,
Reno
Reno, NV
89557
Phone (775) 784-6927, Fax (775) 784-6627
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