Rodney C. Ewing

Rodney C. Ewing (1946-2024) was the Frank Stanton Professor in Nuclear Security and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University. He was also a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan and the University of New Mexico. He is the author or co-author of over 750 research publications and is co-editor of Radioactive Waste Forms for the Future (North-Holland, 1988) and Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation’s High-Level Nuclear Waste (MIT Press, 2006). Ewing served as chair of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (2012-2017) and was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 2017. He had served the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.