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No. 98-62 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Thursday, April 30, 1998)

NRC SENIOR MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED

L. Joseph Callan, Executive Director for Operations (EDO) of the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission, today announced the following assignments of senior

managers, effective July 5:

Ashok C. Thadani, who has been acting Deputy EDO for Regulatory

Effectiveness, will return to the position of Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research.

Dr. Malcolm R. Knapp, who has been acting Director of the Office of Nuclear

Reactor Research, will return to the position of Deputy Director of the Office of Nuclear

Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS).

Margaret V. Federline, a senior manager in NMSS, will become the Deputy

Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.

William F. Kane, acting Deputy Director of NMSS, will return to the position of

Director of the NMSS Spent Fuel Project Office.

Dr. William D. Travers, currently Director of the Special Project Office in the

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), will succeed Mr. Thadani as Deputy EDO

for Regulatory Effectiveness. After assuming this new post in July, Dr. Travers will, if

necessary, continue to provide senior management support for a period of time to

ensure an effective transition of the NRC’s oversight of the Millstone plants in

Connecticut.

Mr. Thadani has been in the acting EDO post since August of last year. Since

joining NRC in 1974 as a reactor engineer, he has held a series of progressively more

responsible positions. He became Director of the Office of Nuclear Regulatory

Research last June. Mr. Thadani is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and

holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Catholic University of America.

At the time of his appointment as acting head of the NRC’s research office last

August, Dr. Knapp had been Deputy Director of NMSS since March 1995. An NRC
staff member since 1979, he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Johns

Hopkins University and his doctorate at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Ms. Federline is currently Deputy Director of the Division of Waste Management

in NMSS, a post she has held since 1995. A graduate of West Virginia University, she

was a staff member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology before

joining NRC in 1981.

Since joining NRC’s predecessor agency, the Atomic Energy Commission, in

1973, Mr. Kane has held positions in both NRC headquarters and in the Region I office

in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, where he was Deputy Regional Administrator for

nearly seven years. He was appointed director of the NMSS Spent Fuel Project Office

in February 1997 and was named Acting Deputy Director of NMSS last August. A

graduate of Widener University, he has done graduate work in nuclear engineering at

Catholic University.

In his capacity as Director of the NRR Special Project Office since November

1996, Dr. Travers has been responsible for the agency’s oversight of the three-unit

Millstone station in Connecticut. He has held progressively more responsible positions

since joining NRC in 1976 as a radiological physicist intern. He is a graduate of Purdue

University, where he received a doctorate in 1976 after completing graduate studies in

health physics and nuclear engineering.

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