Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission board member Peter Lyons has died, according to a Monday statement from the agency.
“For decades, Pete distinguished himself as an influential thought leader in nuclear science and energy policy, first at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and later at the NRC and Department of Energy,” said NRC chair Christopher Hanson in the Monday press release.
The American Nuclear Society industry group also released a statement Monday expressing their condolences. Lyons had been a member of the organization since 2003.
Before his retirement, Lyons served as the head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as an NRC commissioner from 2005 to 2009. Lyons began his career in 1969 at Los Alamos National Laboratories, where he worked to support nuclear testing diagnostics.
