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Robert J. Budnitz has long been involved with nuclear-reactor safety and radioactive-waste safety. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He retired in 2017 from the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Earlier, he ran a one-person consulting practice in Berkeley, Calif. for over two decades. He earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics from Harvard in 1968.