Staff Bios

J. Stewart Bland, CHP

(President and CEO)

J. Stewart Bland has over twenty-eight years of experience in health physics and radiation safety. He has eight years of experience with the NRC in both licensing and inspection and enforcement. For the past twenty years, he has been providing health physics and radiological safety engineering consulting services to industry and government. Areas of specific expertise include decommissioning planning, application of MARSSIM, characterization, license termination, and final status surveys; radiological assessments; emergency planning; internal dose modeling; environmental pathway dose assessment; and particle and shielding transport evaluations using Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code (MCNP). Mr. Bland holds a graduate and undergraduate degrees in Nuclear Science and Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Michael Davidson, CHP

(Vice President
Radiation Safety Officer)

Michael S. Davidson has over twenty years experience in reactor, radioactive materials, and environmental restoration industries specializing in program management and diverse applications of occupational and envi­ronmental safety and health. He has held the position of Corporate Director of Radiological Protection for a 1300 employee, $300M/yr international company with six radioactive materials licenses. His career has included continu­ous contact with regulatory compliance issues, health and safety program implementation and evaluation, and the use of technical training technology. Mr. Davidson works closely with management and the radiological workforce on a variety of reactor facility and environmental restoration projects to ensure safe radiological and environmental work practices. He holds a graduate degree from the Johns Hopkins University and is certified by the American Board of Health Physics and the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management.

Wayne C. Gaul, Ph.D., CHP

(Technical Director, Operations)

Dr. Wayne C. Gaul possesses diverse experience in health physics, nuclear engineering, industrial hygiene, regulatory affairs, RCRA, TSCA, and radioactive and NORM waste management. As former Radiation Safety Officer at the Barnwell Low-level Radioactive Waste disposal site he led the radiological and industrial health and safety programs and coordinated licensing with state regulators. He has been responsible for environmental compliance and waste management activities at a number of radioactive materials and reactor licensed sites, including decommissionings throughout the DOE, DOD, and various states. Dr. Gaul holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Science with an Industrial Hygiene option from the University of South Carolina and a graduate degree in Radiation Biophysics from the University of Kansas. He is certified by the American Board of Health Physics and the Institute of Hazardous Materials Management.

Val Malafeew

(Technical Director, Technology Applications)

Val Malafeew has over thirty years of experience in the nuclear industry in the areas of information technology and computer system applications, radioactive waste management, and regulatory compliance. He has provided computer software and system design for nuclear utilities in areas related to radiation dose evaluation, systems and data management, and procedural controls. He has assisted three utilities with their radioactive waste classification and management programs. As an engineer, he has been directly responsible for numerous inceptive radioactive waste system designs as well as major system retrofits. While with the NRC, he authored regulatory positions including those relating to on-site storage of radioactive wastes. He also possesses expertise in nuclear facility emergency preparedness, and has worked with nuclear utilities to demonstrate compliance with NUREG 0767, Clarification of TMI Action Plan Requirements. Mr. Malafeew is a veteran of the nuclear U.S. Navy and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the George Washington University.