Areas of Expertise:

Professional Background:
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U. S. Department of Energy, 1986-87 (Reagan II)
Director of the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center at EPRI 1981-86
Visiting Lecturer, Univ. California – Berkeley 1988-89

Director of Research, Commonwealth Edison Co. 1972-81
Assistant Director, Argonne Reactor Engineering Div. 1967-69
Member and Chair, Argonne Reactor Safety Review Committee
Senior Engineer, Argonne National Laboratory 1955-71
President of the American Nuclear Society 1992-93

Voted “Utility Industry Man of the Year in 1975 for effective communication of complex subjects to the public”

Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee, San Luis Obispo, CA: Member 9 years, Chair 3 years; Final term ended June 30, 2008

Center Affiliated Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford 1996 - 2004

Education:
Bachelor of Engineering Physics, Cornell 1953
MS Nuclear Engineering, MIT 1955
MBA Northwestern, Graduate School of Business 1963
Ph. D. Metallurgy, Case Western Reserve 1966

Married Sandra Howells1966; Daughters:Laura VanZandt, Liz Laats

Current (since 1988): Independent consultant on nuclear power safety, materials, energy policy and nonproliferation. Local educator and speaker, and teaching a course called “Energy Politics” at the Academy of Lifelong Learning at the Sarasota campus of the University of South Florida.

Now working on a book on the U. S. policy dating back to President Jimmy Carter to indefinitely defer reprocessing of civilian nuclear power reactor spent fuel, and its implications on energy and national security.

Recent Comments by Albert D. Rossin

• "Negate Harry Reid and complete the NRC review of the license application for the Yucca Mountain Radioactive Waste Repository."
  What Should Our Policymakers Focus On?
• "In a decade or two politicians will realize that they had better worry about adequate, reliable electric energy because the media are taking it seriou"
  Protecting Our Climate and the Middle Class
• "A bit late.  That ship just sailed.  The  hearings will be boring, I'm afraid.  It's all been said and fed into the mill.  EPA just took A long time t"
  Obama’s EPA to Cost Americans Billions of Dollars and Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs
• "I don't agree with this idea.  National concerns are one thing,  To assure reliable electricity to a nation's populations requires a myriad of decisio"
  Metrics for Comparing Alternative Liquid Fuels
• "The buzzwords "Best Available Technology" are sought in many aspects of environmental regulation.  Their purpose is to delay, make uncertain or diffic"
  Managing Energy Demand: Can We? Should We?
• "This EPA reg would force the burning of much more natural gas.  Oil plants are no longer a fast replacement option.  No new nuclear power for several "
  The Economic Impacts of Eliminating Coal from Our Energy Portfolio
• "Without the expertise of utility companies and NERC, reliability and standard setting would be left in inexperienced hands.  When it comes to newly em"
  Should States Defer to Utility Companies or Initiate Their Own Mandatory Grid Reliability Upgrades?
• "How significant is Harry Reid?"
  Our Nuclear Waste Disposal Problem
• " Partner Maloney – - Price-Anderson was originally set up because the insurance companies ha no experience on how to b"
  Should Nuclear Power Receive Environmental Subsidies?
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  Should Nuclear Power Receive Environmental Subsidies?