Robert (Bob) Alvarez, a former Senate staffer, 1990s Department of Energy official and nuclear watchdog, died July 1 following a years-long battle with Parkinson’s disease at age 78.
The Institute for Policy Studies and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published remembrances of Alvarez in recent days.
Among other things, Alvarez worked on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio). Alvarez wrote extensively about nuclear topics including the Pantex Plant in Texas and DOE’s Hanford Site in Washington state.
“Bob won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service,” the Institute for Policy Studies said in its piece. “They called him “one of the bedrock founders of the national movement to unmask the human and environmental carnage that resulted directly from the U.S. production of a massive nuclear arsenal,’” the IPS said.
