November Dinner Meeting
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Dr. Gail H. Marcus serves as Principal Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, Department of Energy (DOE). In her current position, she assists William D. Magwood, IV, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, providing technical leadership for the nuclear energy programs and facilities with responsibility for development of next-generation nuclear power plants; advanced nuclear energy technologies; and producing and distributing isotopes required for medical treatment, diagnosis and research. In addition, she assists with overseeing the operation of DOE test and research reactors, and various research, environmental and facility management activities.
Dr. Marcus came to DOE from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). She had been at NRC since 1985, serving in a variety of positions including Deputy Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards/Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste; Director of Project Directorate III-3, providing regulatory oversight of seven nuclear power plants in the Midwest; and Director of the Advanced Reactors Project Directorate, where she was responsible for technical reviews of advanced
reactor designs. She served as technical assistant to Commissioner Kenneth Rogers at the NRC for over four years, providing advice and recommendations on a broad range of technical and policy issues of interest to the Commission. From this position she was detailed for five months to Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, where she was NRC's first assignee to Japan, studying Japan's licensing of the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor.
From 1998-1999, Dr. Marcus spent a year in Japan serving as Visiting Professor in the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology. She conducted research on comparative nuclear regulatory policy in Japan and the United States.
Dr. Marcus currently serves as President of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering (WISE), and on the American Management Association R&D Council. She is a Fellow of the ANS and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Dr. Marcus is a former member of the National Research Council Committee on the Future Needs of Nuclear Engineering Education. She served three terms on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Nuclear Engineering Department. She has authored numerous technical papers and publications. Her research interests have included nuclear regulatory policy, energy technology and policy, international nuclear policy and advanced nuclear technologies.
Dr. Marcus has an S.B. and S.M. in Physics, and an Sc.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. She is the first woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear engineering in the United States.
