The Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition announced April 25 it elected Katherine Peretick as chair of the coalition and Stacey Paradis as vice chair.
The two will lead the commission in its aim to build a nuclear waste management program to dispose of spent nuclear fuel stored at both operating and shutdown nuclear plants nationwide, according to a coalition press release.
Peretick is a commissioner for the Michigan Public Service Commission, while Paradis is a commissioner from the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Some of Peretick’s other roles include serving on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Board of Directors, the NARUC Electricity Committee, the NARUC Subcommittee on Nuclear Energy, the NARUC-National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative, and the Michigan Nuclear Feasibility Study Workgroup.
Paradis brings 25 years of experience to the role, according to the release. She serves as co-vice chair of the NARUC Committee on Energy Resources and the Environment, as a member of the NARUC Subcommittee on Nuclear Energy, and on the NARUC-NASEO Advanced Nuclear State Collaborative.
The Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition is an ad hoc organization that says it represents nuclear waste policy interests of member state utility regulators; other state, tribal, and local government officials; electric companies with nuclear reactors either operating or shut down; and others from the private sector.
Editor’s note: The story was amended to show Peretick’s other roles, and to list the policy interests Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition represents.
