Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner Forrest Remick died Oct. 9 at the Village at Penn State. He was 92.
“Good morning!” reads an obituary penned by Remick himself and published posthumously. “They’ve informed me that I’m no longer going to be with you and that I’m off on a new adventure and experience.”
Remick did not identify the cause of his own death but said that “I have been blessed by excellent care from my lovely, loving wife Soon and by excellent care from numerous members of the medical community. When we are young, we don’t know how much we might become dependent on the help of others.”
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recognized Remick’s passing with a statement distributed Wednesday.
“Dr. Remick has the distinction of being the only person ever to serve the agency as an NRC office director, an administrative judge with our Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, a chairman of NRC’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, and then as an NRC Commissioner,” NRC Chair Christopher Hanson said in a statement Wednesday. “He also had a distinguished career in the nuclear engineering department at Pennsylvania State University. We are deeply saddened by his death.”
Remick was nominated to the NRC by President George H.W. Bush and sworn in for a five-year term on Dec. 1, 1989 after the Senate confirmed him, according to his official commission bio.
