Dr. Seth Tuler was appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Joseph Biden on September 16, 2024..
Dr. Tuler is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies Division, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the Social and Environmental Research Institute, Shelburne, Massachusetts. His research interests focus on risk governance, public participation in risk assessment and decision making, and developing tools to characterize human impacts and vulnerabilities to risk events. He has extensive experience with interdisciplinary research in multiple policy arenas, including climate adaptation planning, oil spill response planning, nuclear waste management, and regional land-use planning.
Dr. Tuler was a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Energy-Related Epidemiologic Research and chaired its Subcommittee for Community Affairs for two years. He served on the National Academy of Science’s Committee on Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste and was asked to co-author two technical reports for the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future on social distrust and public engagement. More recently he served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Chemical Demilitarization; and National Research Council Committee on Review of Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate, a hazardous byproduct of chemical weapons demilitarization, at two facilities in Pueblo, Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky.