Inside Iowa State
June 30, 2000
Clinton appoints Bullen again
by Skip Derra
President Bill Clinton has
reappointed Daniel Bullen, associate professor of mechanical
engineering, to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review
Board. Bullen first was appointed to the board in 1997; his
reappointment is for four years.
The board oversees the technical efforts of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the safe shipment, storage and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes. A primary concern of the board is DOE work on determining a site for the permanent disposal of high-level radioactive wastes, and it has been studying a Yucca Mountain, Nev., site.
Bullen's expertise is in assessing the effectiveness of engineered barrier systems. These systems ultimately will shield the high-level radioactivity emitted by the wastes and are a crucial element in the overall nuclear waste repository.
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