A Brief Professional Resume of the Author

He analyzed the impact of federal budgets and global nuclear policies on various company activities, and interacted regularly with federal agencies responsible for promoting civil nuclear exports and export licensing. Dr. Sazawal was company representative in the NEI Supplier Committee and the Export Task Force, and at the IAEA General Conferences in Vienna, Austria.

Following his retirement, Dr. Sazawal continued his relationship with Centrus, a global supplier of enriched uranium fuel to commercial nuclear power plants, as a Senior Advisor, with emphasis on India and other new markets. He stepped down from that position in 2016.

In January 2011, Mr. Gary Locke, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, appointed Dr. Sazawal to the official U.S. Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) for a two-year term. In March 2013, Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Ms. Rebecca Blank, extended Dr. Sazawal’s term by another two years. Ms. Penny Pritzker, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration, extended Dr. Sazawal’s term to August 2016. In November 2016, Dr. Sazawal was re-appointed to another two-year term extending into the Trump Administration. He was the only Indian-American in the Committee and his term ended in 2018..

Prior to joining Centrus and USEC, Dr. Sazawal worked at COGEMA Inc. (now Orano USA.) for 7 years where his last position was the Vice President of Engineering and Technology. In that position, Dr. Sazawal was responsible for strategic business development, establishing corporate alliances, and management of company marketing and sales force dealing with the nuclear back-end fuel cycle activities in the U.S. His principal interlocutor within the parent company was based in Paris, France, and Dr. Sazawal travelled frequently to Europe.

Dr. Sazawal completed his doctoral degree in structural mechanics in 1975 and immediately joined Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the Advanced Reactors Division as part of the design and technology team working on the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project (CRBRP). His tenure in Westinghouse lasted for 20 years during which time he rose through successive management positions with responsibility for fast reactors, advanced terrestrial and space reactors, nuclear defense programs, and U.S. government programs to promote safety upgrades of Soviet built reactors in Central and Eastern Europe. In that position he interacted regularly with diplomats and energy ministries in foreign countries. He received executive citations from the company for his project leadership on the SP-100 project (1988) and for managing corporate engineering services after the takeover of the Savannah River Site (1989).

Dr. Sazawal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Banaras Hindu University (India), M.Tech. in Materials Engineering from the MA College of Technology, Bhopal (India), and Ph.D. in Structural Mechanics from the Michigan Technological University. Prior to his retirement, he was a member of the Sigma Xi, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society. He has authored nine published technical papers and articles.

Dr. Sazawal was a subject matter expert for the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement for the U.S. India Business Council (USIBC). He continues to maintain contact at the highest levels of both Governments and industries on the subject. He is a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC) based in Washington, DC.

The author with Dr. Shreya Kumar Jain, Chairman and Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL), middle, and Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) & Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, extreme right, in Mumbai on December 10, 2009.