Connery, Hamilton Nominated to DNFSB Slots

President Obama made it official, nominating White House nuclear energy official Joyce Connery and nuclear industry veteran Bruce Hamilton to serve on the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Connery is currently the director of Nuclear Energy Policy in the National Security Council’s Office of International Economics, and she has been nominated to be the chair of the five-member Board, filling Peter Winokur’s slot. Hamilton would replace the late Ken Mossman. DNFSB Vice Chairman Jessie Roberson has been serving as the acting chairman of the Board since Winokur retired. Connery and Hamilton must be confirmed by the Senate before joining the Board.

 

Connery’s most recent stint at the National Security Council is her second after she served on the NSC staff from 2008 to 2010. She also served as a senior advisor to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman from 2010 to 2012, and prior to 2008 she was a senior policy advisor in NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation. Hamilton served on nuclear-powered cruisers and aircraft carriers during a 24-year career in the Navy, and after retiring in 2002, he joined Luminant, eventually heading up Fuelco LLC from 2009 to 2013. Fuelco was Luminant’s joint venture with Ameren Missouri and Pacific Gas and Electric, which served as a broker between Russia’s TENEX and its U.S. subsidiary, TENAM Corp.