Chad Stott, who joined the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board on Monday, has been named resident inspector at the Pantex Plant in Panhandle, Texas.
As a resident inspector at Pantex, Stott will advise the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) on overall safety conditions at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s central nuclear-weapons maintenance facility and participate in technical reviews by the board and staff related to design, construction, operation and decommissioning of defense nuclear facilities.
Stott will also act as a formal go-between for the DNFSB and plant management, state and local agencies, the public and industry officials, the board said in a statement announcing Stott’s assignment.
Stott joins the Board after working at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a resident inspector and a regional engineering inspector.
Stott also worked as a nuclear engineer at the Norfolk and Puget Sound naval shipyards as well as a sustainment engineer for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at the Redstone Arsenal outside Huntsville, Ala. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
