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Administration (1956-57), U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1957-1961); and
            U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (1975-1986).


            When I was called to duty as an active Army combat platoon leader, I was
            ready to go to battle in the Korean War.  However, I was assigned instead in

            March 1952 to work with a crackerjack team of government scientists at the
            Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Because of some educational
            background, although still with the MOS of Combat Platoon Leader, I was
            secretly assigned as a physicist on the first hydrogen experimental bomb

            device at Operation Ivy in Eniwetok, and then in 1953-1954 at the second and
            third detonations at Operation Castle in Eniwetok.

            The design and fabrication of the measurement systems were directed and

            carried out at the Naval Research Laboratory in D.C., by a permanent,
            experienced, team of government employees, with a few scientists and
            engineers assigned on active duty from the armed services. The equipment

            and the preliminary hydrogen bomb experimental devices were taken to
            Eniwetok and Bikini to test and measure features of nuclear reactions during
            detonations. I participated within this government unit both in the

            development of the radiation signal measurement systems, and also in the
            field set up and measurements. I also had the opportunity, with two top
            clearances and need to know, to participate in data analysis and writeup of

            much of the final reports back at the Naval Research Laboratory.  I was
            amazed at the invention and accomplishment of these Federal employees, a
            relatively small group of a few dozen, with a few assigned military scientists,
            for each operation in a matter of months.



            I am Alan Madison and I served for more than 20 years with the U.S. Nuclear
            Regulatory Commission (NRC). I held many positions including, being one of

            the first Resident/Senior Resident Inspectors at several nuclear power plants in
            the Midwest. After a break in service and moving to our headquarters in
            Bethesda, and later Rockville, Maryland, I became a Team Leader for
            Diagnostic Evaluations at multiple nuclear power plants and participated in

            incident investigations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the
            Indiana Regional Cancer Center. I was also assigned as the Task Force Leader
            in charge of revising the Reactor Oversight program in the mid 1990s. Just

            prior to 9/11, I was assigned as Chief of the Reactor Security Section.
            Following 9/11, the security organization was expanded and I became the
            Chief of the Security Performance Evaluation section and led the creation of a


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