Jack Rosenthal is a Nuclear Safety Consultant to Talisman. Prior to consulting for Talisman, Mr. Rosenthal was at the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as the Branch Chief of the Advanced Reactor Research Branch in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research. Mr. Rosenthal has over 30 years of federal service, primarily with the NRC. He was a member of the Senior Executive Service from 1986-2006.
Mr. Rosenthal’s experience includes nuclear power plant safety, regulatory development, policy development, incident response and event analyses, operational experience analyses and feedback, physics and thermal-hydraulic analyses, and severe accident analyses. As Chief of the Advanced Reactor Branch he managed multi-disciplinary research planning, identified knowledge gaps and the data and experiments needed to provide the technical basis for licensing the future generation of nuclear power plants, including AP 1000, ESBWR, ACR-700, EPR, IRIS, and PBMR. He directed the daily review of domestic and foreign operational experience to identify operational experience warranting feedback to the industry, and led and participated in major incident investigations. He initiated and directed multi-disciplinary studies of systems, components and human performance issues at nuclear power plants to identify risk-significant issues and corrective actions. He also directed the Accident Sequence Program, which applies probabilistic risk assessment techniques to the analysis of actual incidents at nuclear power plants.
Prior to joining the NRC, Mr. Rosenthal was a Principle Physicist at Combustion Engineering where he designed new reactor cores for System 80 and reload cores (Calvert Cliffs, Maine Yankee), performed reactor safety analyses, and criticality analyses for the first generation of high-capacity spent fuel pools. He holds both an M.S. and B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from New York University.