The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time planned to hold a nomination hearing about a nuclear engineer tapped to become a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The committee planned to stream the nomination hearing online at its website.
Matthew Marzano, nominated by President Joe Biden (D) in July, would if approved by the committee and confirmed by the full Senate become the youngest commissioner and the commissioner with the most experience as a working nuclear engineer.
Marzano has also worked for the Environment and Public Works Committee as a detailee from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory. Among other things, he advised the committee as it wrote the recently passed ADVANCE Act, which overhauled policy at the NRC and other agencies in an attempt to pave the way for deployment of non-light-water reactor designs.