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Edwin Lyman
Senior Staff Scientist
Global Security Program 

Expertise
nuclear weapons policy
nuclear materials

Profile

Edwin Lyman is a senior staff scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC, a position he has held since May 2003. Before coming to UCS, he was president of the Nuclear Control Institute, a Washington-based organization committed to nuclear nonproliferation. Ed earned a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (now the Science and Global Security Program).

Lyman’s research focuses on the prevention of nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism. He has published articles and letters in journals and magazines including Science, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Science and Global Security. He is the author of the 2004 report “Chernobyl-on-the-Hudson?,” a technical analysis of the radiological consequences of a terrorist attack at the Indian Point nuclear power plant near New York City. Ed is an active member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. In the spring of 2001, he served on a Nuclear Regulatory Commission expert panel on the role and direction of the NRC Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research and briefed the Commission on his findings. He also testified in March 2003 in the House of Representatives on U.S. energy policy. In January 2005, Ed testified as an expert witness during an NRC hearing on the security arrangements for mixed-oxide fuel (MOX) fuel assemblies that were sent to a U.S. nuclear power plant as part of the U.S.-Russian plutonium disposition program. In May 2005, he testified at a Senate subcommittee oversight hearing on the NRC’s regulation of safety and security at nuclear power plants. Ed has been invited to speak at many universities and colleges including MIT, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Case Western Reserve, and Frankin & Marshall. In 2007 he was invited to speak at the American Physical Society meeting and at the APS Ohio Chapter meeting on nuclear energy issues.

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