2021-2022 Board

TOFE 2020
Greg Staack

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BOARD SPOTLIGHT

Tinh Tran – Chair

This is my fourth time around in the Chair position and happy to share the responsibility with Greg Staack as Co-Chairs. I welcome our Vice-Chair/Chair Elect Madeleine to the leadership role in our Local Section.  I have been supporting ANS-SR for over two decades since Dr. O’Kula, our current and on-going Program Chair, encouraged me to participate then as a webmaster for the local section. Being part of the Savannah River Local Section of ANS has allowed me to network and gain leadership skills that have pushed me further in my professional career.  I have leveraged my participation and leadership roles locally and nationally in the society as part of my career development with the support of my company, Amentum Technical Services.  It is a win-win for me, as career development, and for the company with me representing the company in leadership roles. I bring this point as a personal testament to taking full advantage of my membership with ANS. However, the real benefit from membership with ANS and particularly the Savannah River Local Section is the opportunity to pay it forward in the community and within the local section membership. For this, I encourage all to renew and maintain your ANS membership and select Savannah River as one of your preferential local sections (current ANS membership allows for selection of two local sections). Or renew your membership locally with our local section directly as “friends of ANS.” Pass the word on to others in the nuclear field to join in one form or another.

I grew up in Houston, TX and a graduate of Texas A&M University. I have over 30 years of experience in the nuclear safety sector of federal services. I am a Project Director at Amentum Technical Services providing nuclear safety consulting services mostly at the Savannah River Site (SRS). My career with Amentum started as a spin off company from the Engineering Department at SRS in 1997. This has allowed me to work at most of the DOE sites, Fort Bragg, Anniston Chemical Demilitarization Facility, and Kennedy Space Center. Why Nuke? It landed on my lap as a career change opportunity outside of the oil industry in Houston.

Phil Cupp – Publications Chair

I was born and grew up in Knoxville,TN.  My father worked at the Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Oak Ridge (K-25). This where Uranium was enriched for many years. This was the worlds largest building per square foot on one level. This association with his work led me to a life of Nuclear.  I attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and studied Nuclear Engineering.  I was a student member of the ANS and attended a couple of the National Student meetings.  I graduated from UTK with a  BSNE degree.  I started working at Plant Vogtle during the construction of Unit 1 and Unit 2 in 1982.  I joined ANS National and Savannah River Section that same year. I worked at Vogtle for 33 years in various departments, Operations, Scheduling, and Engineering.  I retired from Southern Nuclear at Vogtle in 2015. I have been a National and Local Section member for 38 years.  I was a past Local Section Chairman, Vogtle Liaison for several years. And now I am the Publicans chair which I have been since I retired from Vogtle.  My hobbies included Photography, Astronomy, Power Boating, and building computers.

Ken Hofstetter – Retiree Liaison

I grew up in Moline, IL, graduating from Purdue University with a PhD degree in Nuclear Chemistry followed by a post-doc at Texas A&M University. Continuing in academia, I taught and led research programs in nuclear sciences at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY for 5 years. Feeling the call of the nuclear industry, I took a position at the AGNS facility in Barnwell providing radiochemical and nuclear instrumentation support for nuclear fuel reprocessing as a means to close the nuclear fuel cycle. Political pressure closed the facility before hot operations. In 1979, the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 occurred as the most significant event in the history of the commercial nuclear power industry. I was asked to come to Middletown, PA and support the decontamination and defueling of the crippled reactor. For almost 7 years I provided that support through defueling and shipping of the damaged fuel.  Upon achieving those milestones, I was offered a position at the Savannah River Site working for DuPont, Westinghouse, and the Savannah River National Laboratory. I applied my skills in nuclear radiation detection development to support environmental monitoring and eventually to Homeland Security in their search for WMD post 9/11. I retired from SRNL in 2007 and remain in Aiken with my family.

Madeleine Waller – Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Madeleine Waller recently joined SRNS as an Associate Criticality Safety Engineer after graduating with an Master of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering from the University of California Berkeley. Prior to this, she achieved a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she was active in her school’s WIN and ANS chapters. Between the two organizations, she has held chapter executive board positions for 3 years and has served as a member of the student advisory council to the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Department of her undergraduate institution. Her motivation to contribute to ANS lies in her commitment to the pursuit of professional enrichment and continuous improvement for herself and others. Outside of work she spends time keeping up with endurance racing motorsports and learning new handcrafts.