 | UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION |
| Announcement No. 085
Date: August 20, 2007
To: All NRC Employees
SUBJECT: SELECTION OF SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER IN THE OFFICE OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEES ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS (ACRS) I am pleased to announce the following selection: | |
 | Girija Shanker Shukla has been selected for the position of Senior Program Manager for the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). Mr. Shukla joined the NRC in 2000 as a Project Manager in the Division of Licensing Project Management in the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR). He worked in a series of positions of increasing responsibility in NRR, including Project Manager, Lead Project Manager, and Technical Assistant to the Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking. |
Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Shukla had over 22 years of nuclear industry experience with Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) vendor, an architect-engineer company, and several nuclear utility companies. Mr. Shukla received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and completed graduate-level studies in Nuclear Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York.
Please join me in congratulating him on his new assignment.
Frank P. Gillespie
Executive Director, ACRS
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Brief intro by Girija Shukla:
Attached is the announcement regarding my promotion with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Brief bio data is as follows:
I graduated with B. Tech. in Mech. Eng. from IT-BHU in 1976. After a short period of experience in the design, development and testing of nuclear reactors, and reactor operations at Bhabha Atomic Research Center, and at Larsen and Toubro Ltd., Bombay, I came to the USA in 1977 with a green card and full scholarship for graduate studies in Nuclear Engineering at the Center for Nuclear Safety Research, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY. After graduate studies, in 1979 joined Babcock And Wilcox Company (a nuclear reactor manufacturer). Joined Virginia Electric And Power Company (a nuclear power electric co.) in 1981, Bechtel Power Corporation (nuclear power plant constructors) in 1983, Detroit Edison Company in 1987, Florida Power And Light Company (a nuclear power electric co.) in 1998, and the U.S. Govt. Agency responsible for regulating nuclear power in the USA - US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2000.
Currently serving as Senior Program Manager for Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, DC, USA. My job duties are: to serve as a Senior Program Manager in support for Reactor Safety. Provide guidance and technical advice to Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) on policy matters associated with the current NRC regulations. Provide advice to the NRC on the requirements of new regulations. Perform comprehensive policy development studies on new or unusually complex nuclear safety issues. Provide leadership in domestic and international nuclear safety and safeguards issues; and recommend policies and programs consistent with NRC's mission and strategic goals.
G. S. Shukla
Senior Program Manager
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, D. C. 20555
e-mail: gss[AT]nrc.gov
e-mail: shuklag[AT]yahoo.com