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Diablo Canyon Safety Committee

The California Energy Commission has announced the applications of two candidates to fill a forthcoming vacancy in the Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee.

The Committee reviews the nuclear power plant's operations in order to assess its safety of operations and suggests appropriate safety recommendations. The panel is made up of three individuals with knowledge, background and experience dealing with nuclear power facilities and nuclear safety issues.

The Governor of California, Attorney General and the Chair of the California Energy Commission each appoint a member of the panel to serve staggered three-year tenures. It is the Energy Commission's turn to appoint a panel member to the vacancy, which occurs this month, July 2006.

The following are the candidates and a brief summary of their qualifications:

Edward D. Fuller

Mr. Fuller has 46 years of experience in the nuclear power industry and is recognized by his peers as recent past President of the American Nuclear Society [ANS]. Thirty-five years of this experience has been either in senior management or as a consultant to senior management. This included managing work in the Nuclear Energy Division at General Electric and as a consultant to nuclear utility senior management while an officer at Atlas Consulting Group, TENERA, Associated Project Analysis, and S. Levy, Inc. Mr. Fuller directed the analysis required to satisfy the PSAR and FSAR requirements for all GE Boiling Water Reactors. His technical experience includes the area of nuclear safety and compliance to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC], and the Nuclear Oversight Board at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station [SONGS] for Southern California Edison. He has authored testimony before the Congress of the United States on behalf of the ANS and served as an expert witness on several Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Hearings by the NRC. Mr. Fuller has been advising utilities on regulatory issues such as operability determinations on deteriorated plant systems, risk-based decision making and regulation and has served on several nuclear oversight boards.

Mr. Fuller earned an M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from Stanford University and has a residence in Cambria, CA, within 30 miles of Diablo Canyon.

William F. Conway

Mr. Conway has been serving as a DCISC committee member from February of 2005 to June 30, 2006. He joined the Arizona Public Service Company in May 1989 as executive vice president - nuclear, having overall responsibility for the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. He retired from that position in July 1994. From 1988 to 1989 William Conway was senior vice president of nuclear operations at Florida Power & Light Company where he was responsible for their four nuclear units. Prior to that he served as the group vice president for industry and government relations at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations [INPO] in Atlanta where he was responsible for the Institutes interaction with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC] and the Department of Energy and had responsibility for personnel performing periodic evaluations of U.S. nuclear power plants. Previous to the above, he has also been a CEO of Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation where he worked for 18 years.

William Conway has been an executive member of several Institutes and Societies, such as American Nuclear Society [ANS], EPRI, &c. He attended the University of Rhode Island and was a captain in the U.S. Air Force.


The Energy Commission welcomes any public comment on the candidates' qualifications. Please e-mail comments to: Bbyron@energy.state.ca.us

Comments will be accepted through July 20, 2006.