Former Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman died Sept. 7, news outlets reported. He was 79.
Bodman led the Department of Energy from 2005 to 2009 during George W. Bush’x second term in office. During his tenure, Bodman fired Linton Brooks — the second full-time administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration — following security lapses at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Under Bodman’s leadership, the Department of Energy in 2008 filed its license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
The Washington Post, citing a statement from Bush, said Bodman died of primary progressive aphasia, a neurological disorder.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated chemical engineer and business executive was also Bush’s deputy treasury secretary and deputy commerce secretary, prior to joining the Department of Energy.
