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Senator Pressures NRC to Clear NUMEC President of Illegal Uranium Diversions to Israel"NRC does not have information that would allow it to unequivocally conclude that nuclear material was not diverted from the site, nor that all previously unaccounted for material was accounted for during the decommissioning of the site." |
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| 05/29/2009 | Deborah Shapiro NMTI nomination forms for Zalman Shapiro with required letters of recommendation (below). |
| 05/18/2009 | Aram Schefrin, Shapiro's nephew, letter of support. "I'm an attorney and author. Zalman Shapiro is my uncle. I have no personal familiarity with his work -but I know him very well. And I cannot imagine anyone more qualified, as a human being, for your award." |
| 05/21/2009 | Grace Ann Geibel, RSM, PhD of Carlow University letter of support. " He has demonstrated courageous risk-taking from the beginning of his professional career." |
| 05/18/2009 |
John T. Conway, Chairman
Emeritus, Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Committee, "For a thirteen-year period I was
on the staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy of the U.S.
Congress, most of which time I was Staff Director with
oversight responsibility of the U.S. Government's authorization
and appropriation of funds for both civilian and military
applications of atomic energy.... "During my career I interfaced with most of the early pioneers in the field including Drs. Oppenheimer, Seaborg, McMillan and Admiral Rickover. If Admiral Rickover were alive today, I am certain he would also be among those recommending Zalman Shapiro for the award. " |
| 05/18/2009 | Kirsten E. Gillibrand, US Senator, " Although I am not personally acquainted with Dr. Shapiro, his impressive history of outstanding contributions to our country recently came to my attention." |
| 05/28/2009 | Charles Lemaire, a registered patent attorney of Lemaire Patent Law Firm. "Dr. Shapiro's contributions are extremely significant in providing enduring and far-reaching benefits to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the United States and J strongly recommend his confirmation for this award." |
| 05/20/2009 | James C. Roddy, Sentory Consultant, McCrory & McDowell LLC. "I became acquainted with Zalman Shapiro approximately 25 years ago. We served together on a committee to raise funds for environmental projects in Israel." |
| 05/23/2009 | Seth Corey, Murphy-Rosen Research Professor of Cancer Biology and Chemotherapy, Northwestern University. "His contributions have been critical for the advance of non.fossil fuel sources of energy -something that is so incredibly important in 2009 and for our country's energy-independence and national security and general wellbeing. |
| 05/19/2009 | Mark J. Lesky, NOVA Chemicals "Dr. Zalman Shapiro has consistently demonstrated leadership in technological innovation combining vision, integrity and humility despite enduring untold hardships and enormous challenges." |
| 05/26/2010 | Stuart Hoffman, PNC Financial Services Group, "Dr. Shapiro's life is not merely punctuated with innovations/contributions of enormous benefit to our country; it Is Indeed a continuum of outstanding achievements on behalf of the greater good." |
| 05/15/2010 | Victor Parsonnet, MD, St. Barnabas "I write to inform you of his extraordinary gift to the health and long-term survival·of many patients under my care." |
| 05/25/2009 | Oscar S. Gray, University of Maryland. "I have known Dr. Shapiro for over fifty years. My experience with his technological career dates from 1957, when I left the Department of State to join him as an officer of a start-up company that he was in the process of founding, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Apollo, Pa. (NUMEC). He was the President of the company. I became its Secretary and Treasurer, and later a Vice President." |
| 05/25/2010 | Jerome L. Rosenberg, Research Integrity Officer, University of Pittsburgh. "I met the nominee shortly after I arrived in Pittsburgh in 1953, and we have been acquaintances, although not scientific co-workers, since then." |
| 05/20/2009 | Bernard L. Cohen, Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh. "I believe I am particularly well qualified to evaluate both the importance of Dr. Shapiro's contributions to the development of the nuclear power industry (and related areas) and the importance of the contributions of nuclear energy to the economic, environmental and social well being of the United States." |
| 05/18/2009 | Francis Cotter, retired VP of Governmental Affairs, Westinghouse. "Dr. Shapiro is a man of character who is distinguished not only by the high order of his technical accomplishments, but also by the ethical tenets he brought to all of it. I consider it an honor to recommend Dr. Shapiro for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. America needs more men like Dr. Shapiro." |
| 05/23/2009 | Peter D. Trooboff, Covington & Burling LLP "I have practiced law for 40 years as a partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, principally on international matters that have included hundreds of matters concerning U.S. controls on the exports of high-technology products and technical data. This work has drawn extensively on my interest in science because these assignments have focused on the export-control regimes of the Departments of State, Commerce, Energy and Treasury....I am pleased to support enthusiastically Dr. Shapiro's nomination for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation because of his unique and extraordinarily valuable contributions..." |
| 8/27/2009 |
Senator Arlen Specter asks that the NRC "issue a formal public statement confirming that he [constituent Zalman Shapiro] was not involved in any activities related to the diversion of uranium to Israel." Information from Hadrian R. Katz of the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP "Despite his many accomplishments, Dr. Shapiro has for many years been the subject of repeated defamatory statements, and we respectfully request your assistance in clearing a great American scientist's good name. In particular, we would ask that this letter be forwarded to the Office of the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with your recommendation that the Commission issue a forrmal statement confirming once and for all that Dr. Shapiro did not participate in the unlawful diversion of nuclear material to the State of Israel." |
| 11/02/2009 | The NRC denies Specter's request. "NRC does not have information that would allow it to unequivocally conclude that nuclear material was not diverted from the site, nor that all previously unaccounted for material was accounted for during the decommissioning of the site." |
