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Home > Staff > Donald T. OakleyDonald T. Oakley, Sc.D.
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Dr. Oakley is an Associate Director and Senior Scientist for Center for Biomedical and Toxicological Research at the Florida State University. He has research and management experience in radiation protection, waste management, and environmental protection activities with the US Public Health Service, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Los Alamos National Laboratory, and as a contractor to the US Department of Energy (DOE). |
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His research activities have been in the areas of nuclear weapons and nuclear rocket testing, effluents from the operation of
the commercial and defense nuclear fuel cycles, environmental technology development and deployment, and related international
environmental issues. He has co-authored articles on environmental protection activities related to nuclear facility operations
and on natural background radiation. His responsibilities at CBTR include: evaluation of technologies for application at USDOE
facilities, assessment of international opportunities for exchanging information relevant to the cleanup of DOE facilities, and
basic and applied research in the field of environmental technology development and deployment. Dr. Oakley has taught courses
to state health department personnel on nuclear radiation instrumentation. He has provided technical direction to three principal
USEPA laboratories that conduct analyses of environmental samples for the presence of radionuclides. Dr. Oakley has managed
multidisciplinary teams of scientists to evaluate nuclear waste treatment, storage, and disposal. In particular, he conducted
research on the suitability of Yucca Mountain as a high level waste repository and was a principal contributor to the initial
Site Characterization Plan for the Yucca Mountain site. This work consisted of the characterization and modeling of radionuclide
transport in the vadose zone and groundwater at the site. Dr. Oakley has served as a USEPA representative to
government-to-government commissions on environmental programs in Poland, Yugoslavia, Israel, Egypt, India, and Pakistan.
He served as co-principal investigator with a Polish team investigating worldwide contamination of glaciers due to industrial
and nuclear atmospheric fallout. As a USEPA representative, Dr. Oakley has lead US Government initiatives to develop environmental
business in Middle Eastern countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iran. Dr. Oakley has served on numerous
technical advisory panels on waste management and environmental safety and health. He currently serves on the USDOE's High
Level Waste Tanks Advisory Panel, which evaluates the safety of waste storage and treatment at the DOE Hanford Site. He has
evaluated the technology for the treatment and disposition of nuclear materials (plutonium and uranium) at the Plutonium
Finishing Plant at the Hanford Site, and he has recently completed an evaluation of the USDOE complex-wide R&D Plan for the
disposition of nuclear materials. Dr. Oakley also contributes to nuclear waste assessment activities of the National
Commission on Radiation Protection, Scientific Committee 87. Dr. Oakley is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Certified
Health Physicist. | |
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