After serving nearly six years on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Commissioner William Ostendorff said Wednesday he will not seek reappointment, as he has accepted a teaching position with his alma mater, the United States Naval Academy.
“I’ve been privileged to serve NRC since 2010,” Ostendorff said Wednesday during the Platts Nuclear Energy Conference in Washington, D.C. “It’s been a very busy time and an honor to serve. I will leave NRC when my term expires June 30.”
Ostendorff began his first term of just over a year in April 2010, and was sworn in for a second term in July 2011. He said he will teach national security affairs as a professor in the Naval Academy’s Economics Department. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1976 to 2002, retiring as a captain. Before joining the commission, he served as director in two separate roles at the National Academies: for the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and for the Board on Global Science and Technology.
Ostendorff said post-Fukushima decision-making highlighted his time with the NRC.
