NRC ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS 

APPOINTS NEW MEMBER 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has appointed Stephen P. Schultz 

to the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) for a four-year 

term. 

Schultz is a nuclear engineering consultant in Charlotte, N.C., having retired 

from Duke Energy Corporation after 33 years of leading technical engineering services teams in the 

nuclear utility business. As a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, he developed 

guidance on reactor technology assessment and selection for near-term deployment. Schultz has 

provided industry technical leadership on task force and working group initiatives, and committees 

for the Nuclear Energy Institute and the Electric Power Research Institute. He is a registered 

professional engineer in North Carolina and a lifetime member of the American Nuclear Society.

Schultz earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd 

College, his Master of Science degree in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Rensselaer 

Polytechnic Institute and his Doctor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also completed his Master of Business Administration 

at Northeastern University.

The other members of the ACRS include:

• J. Sam Armijo, chairman, adjunct professor of materials science and engineering 

at the University of Nevada, Reno 

• John W. Stetkar, vice chairman, principal of Stetkar and Associates, Lake Forest, 

Calif. 

• Harold Ray, member-at-large, retired chief executive vice president of Southern 

California Edison Company, Rosemead, Calif. 

• Said Abdel-Khalik, Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor at the Georgia 

Institute of Technology

• Sanjoy Banerjee, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Institute 

for Sustainable Energy Technologies at the Grove School of Engineering at City 

College of New York, N.Y. 

• Dennis C. Bley, president of Buttonwood Consulting, Inc., Oakton, Va. 

• Charles H. Brown, Jr., senior advisor for electrical systems for BMT Syntek 

Technologies, Inc., Arlington, Va. 

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• Michael L. Corradini, professor and chairman of the department of engineering 

physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison 

• Dana A. Powers, senior scientist for Sandia National Laboratories in 

Albuquerque, N.M. 

• Joy L. Rempe, laboratory fellow and group leader at the Idaho National 

Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho

• Michael T. Ryan, principal of Michael T. Ryan and Associates LLC, Lexington, 

S.C. 

• William J. Shack, retired associate director of the energy technology division, 

Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill. 

• John D. Sieber, retired senior vice president of the nuclear power division of 

Duquesne Light Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

• Gordon R. Skillman, independent consultant in nuclear power plant design and 

registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Virginia. 

All biographies are available on the NRC website at http://www.nrc.gov/aboutnrc/regulatory/advisory/acrs/membership.html .

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