Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers

SESSION 1

Moderator – Dr. Ivan Pedro Salati

Director for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety, and Member of the Deliberative Commission of the Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear (CNEN); Member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Commission of Safety Standards (CSS). Dr. Salati received an undergraduate degree from the Physics Institute of the Universidade de São Paulo; MBA in engineering economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; an MBA in business administration from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; an MSc in nuclear energy from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia; and a DSc in nuclear engineering from the Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ).

Panelists

Dr. Michael L. Corradini

Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Corradini is a mechanical and nuclear engineer whose research interests are centered primarily in thermal hydraulics and multiphase flow, with emphasis on reactor operation, reactor safety, reprocessing and recycle, and risk assessment. In 2006, he was elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and has served as an appointed member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. He was elected as the president of the American Nuclear Society for 2012 to 2013. He also serves on the National Research Council’s Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board and the Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.

Dr. Claudio Almeida

Advisor to the Director of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety, CNEN. Dr. Almeida spent 14 years in the Department of Nuclear Safety of the IAEA in Vienna, working first as a computer code specialist and later joining the Project on Safety of VVER and RBMK nuclear power plants. He also conducted several technical cooperation missions in Mexico, Republic of Korea, Pakistan, India, Iran, China, and Cuba. He has an electrical and electronic engineering degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He earned a PhD in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975.

Mr. William Tobey

Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and former Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration. Mr. Tobey managed the U.S. government’s largest program to prevent nuclear proliferation and terrorism by detecting, securing, and disposing of dangerous nuclear material. Mr. Tobey also served on the National Security Council Staff in three administrations, in defense policy, arms control, and counter-proliferation positions. He has participated in international negotiations ranging from the START talks with the Soviet Union to the Six-Party Talks with North Korea. He also has extensive experience in investment banking and venture capital.

SESSION 2

Moderator – Admiral James O. Ellis Jr

Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Member, Arctic Security Initiative, Stanford University. Admiral Ellis retired as president and chief executive officer of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations in 2012. In 2004, he completed a distinguished 39-year navy career as commander of the United States Strategic Command. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and, in 2005, was inducted into the school’s Engineering Hall of Fame. He completed United States Navy Nuclear Power Training and was qualified in the operation and maintenance of naval nuclear propulsion plants. In 2009, he completed 3 years of service as a presidential appointee on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and, in 2006, was a member of the Military Advisory Panel to the Iraq Study Group. In 2013, Admiral Ellis was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

Rapporteur – Dr. Francisco Luiz Lemos

Researcher, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN). Since 2011, Dr. Lemos has been a member of the Safety Analysis Group of Centro de Engenharia Nuclear (CEN) doing work with fuzzy logic and the STAMP methodology. In 2012 he was a research assistant for Professor Nancy Leveson in the

Aeronautic Engineering Department of MIT, working on a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission-financed project to study the U.S. Evolutionary Power Reactor. He has previously worked at the Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear (CDTN) in Safety Analysis of Nuclear Installations. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC/MG) and has a DSc in environmental geochemistry from the Federal University of Ouro Preto.

Panelists

Mr. Ricardo Moraes dos Santos

Product Development Engineer, Embraer (Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A.). Mr. Santos has taken professional specialization training in safety assessment from Kansas University (U.S.) and systems engineering from MIT. He graduated in computer engineering at the University of Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP) and has completed a latu sensu post-graduation program in safety, continuing airworthiness at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA).

Dr. Stephanie Morrow

Human Factors Analyst, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Dr. Morrow has been with the U.S. NRC since February 2011 and serves as a project manager for various safety culture and human performance research activities. She has conducted studies of safety culture and its relationship to employee behaviors and organizational performance, developed surveys for use in the assessment of safety culture, and served as a safety culture assessor during onsite inspections of nuclear power plants. She has a PhD and master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Connecticut. She has also worked as an engineering psychologist at the Department of Transportation’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Research Center.

Dr. Jorge Eduardo Sarkis

Head of Group, Chemical and Isotopic Characterization, and Professor of Graduate Studies in Nuclear Technology, IPEN, since 1993. Dr. Sarkis studied chemistry at the Federal Fluminense University with postgraduate courses in nuclear engineering from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Rio de Janeiro. He has conducted research in thermionic mass spectrometry (TIMS) applied to nuclear chemistry at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. He did postdoctoral research in mass spectrometry with inductively coupled plasma source (ICPMS) at the National Environmental Research Council, University of London, England and in nuclear forensics at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, United States. Since 2007, he has worked with the IAEA on nuclear forensics. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Society of Forensic Sciences.

SESSION 3

Moderator – Mr. Marcos Antônio Viana Tavares

Systems Integration/Software Manager, Chief Engineer Office, Embraer. Mr. Tavares graduated in electrical engineering at the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) and earned an MSc at ITA. He has worked for Embraer for 28 years in the following areas: stall protection system, automatic flight controls, flight controls (fly-by-wire) as product development engineer; and in research and development as fly-by-wire/embedded computational systems project technical leader.

Panelists

Mr. Ivan de Souza Azevedo

Safety Coordination, Technical Exchange Missions, IAEA. Mr. Azevedo is a chemist with a master’s degree in analytic physical chemistry from the Chemistry Institute of UFRJ and an MBA in business management from the Polytechnic School of UFRJ. Working at Eletronuclear for 18 years, he was responsible for the radiochemical and chemical control of Angra 1 and participated in various safety reviews of nuclear power plants, including some in England and Russia. In the past 4 years, he has been working in safety coordination, and in 2011 was invited by CNEN to attend the Fifth Meeting of the International Convention on Nuclear Safety at the IAEA. Currently, he works in safety culture for technical exchange missions with the IAEA, among other projects.

Dr. Antonio C. O. Barroso

Professor and Senior Researcher, IPEN. Dr. Barroso teaches and conducts research in nuclear knowledge management, safety culture and Web information mining of nuclear-related subjects. Previously, he served as research and development director and commissioner of CNEN and also as a Brazilian alternate governor at the Board of the IAEA. From 2001 to 2012 he was a member of the Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Applications (SAGNA) for the director general of IAEA. He has also been a member of the Halden Reactor Project Board of Directors and of the Advisory Council for Industrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) and Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados (NUCLEP). He graduated in mechanical engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and has a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT.

Mr. Michael O’Brien

Associate Program Leader for the Global Security Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Mr. O’Brien has more than 35 years of domestic and international experience in the fields of vulnerability assessment, including insider analysis, physical protection systems, protective force, and transportation security. He has served on Department of Army, Department of Navy, and De-

partment of Energy working groups for the formulation of physical protection policy guidance and regulations and has provided similar support under U.S. government bilateral work with the European Commission, IAEA, Russian Federation, India, and China. Mr. O’Brien graduated from the University of Maryland.

SESSION 4

Moderator – Mr. Michael O’Brien (see Session 3)

Panelists

Dr. Robert A. Bari

Senior Physicist and Senior Advisor, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr. Bari has worked on projects and issues regarding nuclear safety and nonproliferation technologies, nuclear waste management, and development of advanced nuclear reactors and has directed numerous studies of advanced nuclear energy concepts. He is currently co-chair of the working group that has developed a comprehensive methodology for evaluation of proliferation resistance and physical protection of all new nuclear energy concepts of Generation IV International Forum. He was awarded the Theo J. “Tommy” Thompson Award in 2003 by the American Nuclear Society. In 2004, he received the Brookhaven National Laboratory Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology. He holds a BS in physics from Rutgers University and a PhD in physics from Brandeis University. Dr. Bari serves as a member of the U.S. National Research Council Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident.

Dr. Alan S. Hanson

Executive Director, International Nuclear Leadership Educations Program, MIT. Previously, Dr. Hanson served as executive vice president of technologies and used fuel management at AREVA NC Inc. Dr. Hanson also continues his responsibilities as chief executive officer of Transnuclear, Inc., an AREVA company. He began his career in 1975 with the Nuclear Services Division of Yankee Atomic Electric Company. In 1979, he joined the IAEA, where he served first as coordinator of the International Spent Fuel Management Program and later as policy analyst in the areas of safeguards and nonproliferation policies. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT.

Dr. Filomena Ricco

Professor of Aerospace Sciences, Air Force University (UNIFA). Dr. Ricco is also an advisor to the Air Force Department of Science and Technology and a

collaborating researcher for the Center for Environmental Research and Studies at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Her expertise is focused on management of science and technology, more specifically on methodology and management tools, knowledge management, strategic management, and organizational behavior. She holds a BS in psychology from the University of Taubaté and an MSc and DSc in administration from Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA) of the University of São Paulo (USP).

SESSION 5

Moderator – Dr. Leonam dos Santos Guimarães

Director of Planning and Environmental Management, Eletrobras Eletronuclear. Formerly, Dr. Guimarães was coordinator of the Brazilian Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program, professor of management at the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation at the Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (EP-USP), executive assistant to the chief executive officer of Eletronuclear, and technical and commercial director of Amazonia Azul Tecnologias de Defesa S.A. (AMAZUL). He has 30 years of experience in research, development, engineering, procurement, and construction of naval and nuclear systems. He is member of IAEA’s Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy (SAGNE) and author of several books and papers on engineering, management, and nuclear policy. He holds a BSc in naval sciences from the Brazilian Naval Academy, an MSc in nuclear engineering from the University of Paris VI and a PhD in ocean engineering on naval nuclear propulsion from the EP-USP.

Panelists

Dr. Michael L. Corradini (see Session 1)

Mr. Paulo César da Costa Carneiro

Technical Advisor, Technical Directorate, Eletrobras Eletronuclear. Mr. Carneiro is responsible for planning and management coordination for plant operation and new projects. He is also the coordinator of the Eletronuclear Fukushima Response Committee. Previously, he worked in the safety-related instrumentation and control design for Angra 2 nuclear power plant (NPP) at Siemens headquarters in Germany, then headed the NPP’s Technical Support and Commissioning Department of FURNAS Centrais Elétricas. He was also the deputy superintendent during Angra 2 construction and head of the Planning and Budget Department at NUCLEN Engineering. He has a BS in electronic engineering from UFRJ, specialization courses in nuclear engineering and project management from COPPE/UFRJ, and an MBA in Business Finance from Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais.

Major General Donald Alston

Chief Executive Officer, Alston Strategic Consulting. General Alston was commander of the 20th Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command, and commander of Task Force 214, U.S. Strategic Command, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming. He was responsible for the nation’s intercontinental ballistic missile force, organized into three operational wings with more than 9,600 people. He has worked as a liaison officer to the U.S. House of Representatives, and also performed duties as the executive assistant to the secretary of the air force in Washington, D.C. General Alston also served as the deputy chief of staff for strategic communications and the spokesperson for Multi-National Force - Iraq in Baghdad. In 2012, General Alston retired from military service. He has a BS from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado and an MA in business administration from Golden Gate University in California.

SESSION 6

Moderator – Major General Donald Alston (see Session 5)

Panelists

Admiral James O. Ellis Jr. (see Session 2)

Mr. Luciano Pagano Jr.

Rear Admiral Luciano Pagano Jr. is the superintendent of the nuclear program of the Marinha do Brasil (the Brazilian Navy). He graduated in Chemical Engineering from the Instituto Militar de Engenharia and graduated with a degree in Mathematics from UFRJ. He earned a master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the State University of Campinas.

Dr. Sonja Haber

Consultant. Dr. Haber has been conducting work in human performance analysis for more than 30 years. She has been involved in the evaluation and intervention of human performance strategies in various applications. For the last 20 years, Dr. Haber’s work has focused on improving human performance within organizations that must operate with a high degree of reliability. She has conducted fieldwork for various international agencies in efforts to enhance human performance, including cross-cultural analysis of organizational issues in safety culture and management and supervisory skills. Most recently, Dr. Haber has conducted safety culture evaluations in various organizations, including organizational interventions, leadership and management training, enhanced communication and observational skills training, and working towards the development of performance measures for organization and management processes.

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