After spending 40 years with the federal government, Daniel Ogg, currently executive director of U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB), will retire effective Dec. 31.
Ogg has headed NWTRB for more than three years and has been with the board, as a member of its professional staff, since 2014, according to a post Tuesday on his LinkedIn page. He also spent nearly 23 years as both a manager and an engineer with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). Before that he was a nuclear-trained officer in the U.S. Navy, according to his online bio.
In the LinkedIn post, Ogg said his career has been a “grand adventure,” from serving in the Navy on a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, to earning a master’s degree at the University of California at Berkeley to helping DNFSB oversee some of the most contaminated sites in the Department of Energy’s weapons complex.
“At the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, beginning January 1, Ms. Neysa Slater-Chandler will be the acting Executive Director, and Dr. Bret Leslie will be the senior advisor to Neysa on technical matters,” Ogg said in an afternoon email to Exchange Monitor.
“We expect the NWTRB to continue its mission of evaluating DOE activities and contributing to meaningful progress in nuclear waste management and disposal,” Ogg went on to say in the email. “The board has maintained full funding, a good staffing level, and there are new board member nominees being vetted at the White House for appointment,” he added.
The board dwindled to one member, Chair Peter Swift, earlier this year after President Donald Trump forced out most appointees by President Joe Biden.