New blue ribbon commission on America’s nuclear future

along with Congressman Hamilton and such an impressive group of scientific and industry experts.”

The commission is made up of fifteen members who have a range of expertise and experience in nuclear issues, including scientists, industry representatives, and respected former elected officials. The commission will produce an interim report within eighteen months and a final report within 24 months.

The members of the Blue Ribbon Commission are:

  • Lee Hamilton, Co-Chair, represented Indiana’s 9th congressional district from January 1965-January 1999. During his time in Congress, Hamilton served as the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and chaired the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is currently president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University. He is a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council.Previously, Hamilton served as vice chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission).
  • Brent Scowcroft, Co-Chair. Scowcroft is president of the Scowcroft Group, an international business advisory firm. He has served as the National Security Advisor to both Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. From 1982 to 1989, he was vice chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. Scowcroft served in the military for twenty-nine years, and concluded at the rank of Lieutenant General following service as the deputy national security advisor. Out of uniform, he continued in a public policy capacity by serving on the President’s Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the Commission on Strategic Forces, and the President’s Special Review Board, also known as the Tower Commission.
  • Mark Ayers, president, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
  • Vicky Bailey, former commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; former IN PUC commissioner; Former Department of Energy assistant secretary for policy and international affairs
  • Albert Carnesale, chancellor emeritus and professor, UCLA
  • Pete V. Domenici, senior fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; former U.S. Senator (R-New Mexcio)
  • Susan Eisenhower, president, Eisenhower Group, Inc.
  • Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Senator (R-Nebraska)
  • Jonathan Lash, president, World Resources Institute
  • Allison Macfarlane, associate professor of environmental science and policy, George Mason University
  • Richard A. Meserve, president, Carnegie Institution for Science, and former chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  • Ernie Moniz, professor of physics and Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Per Peterson, professor and chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California – Berkeley
  • John Rowe, chairman and chief executive officer, Exelon Corporation
  • Phil Sharp, president, Resources for the Future

See Presidential Memorandum on the Blue Ribbon Commission (pdf)