About Sue Aggarwal - President & CEO
Sue Aggarwal supervises all aspects of NMNTI’s radiation programs, particularly compliance programs regarding license requirements for radioactive materials and radiation procedures in the laboratory and field. She also plans strategies and oversees activities in radioactive sample collection, analysis, and characterization.
Prior to joining NMNTI, Sue was a Research Scientist at BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels), Incorporated, in the UK. At BNFL, she generated policy documents based on her reviews of liquid and solid radioactive waste streams. The waste characterization reports she wrote helped increase clients' awareness of the need for treatment of wastes. She also provided the technical support to initiate such waste treatment projects for BNFL.
Sue was also Research Scientist at AEA (Atomic Energy Authority) in the UK. She directed a project to develop a new technology in waste management, which was later implemented commercially. During her tenure, quality assurance and record keeping procedures were upgraded, and her measures increased public confidence in nuclear waste disposal. Her coordination ability, combined with her technical knowledge, led to improved analysis and characterization of radioactive materials at various AEA sites. She has the capability to operate various radioanalytical instruments such as Liquid Scintillation Counter, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Spectrometry, ICP-MS, Wet Chemistry and mobile laboratory instruments. Personnel training and database formulation were also Sue's responsibilities.
Sue has also successfully developed a new technology for expressing fluids from cement blocks at high temperatures in the nuclear industry and is proficient in technical research projects, improving quality assurance, training staff, writing procedures, and reports, publishing papers. She has knowledge of many laboratory instruments and computer modeling as well as experience in public speaking, technical presentations, budgeting, implementing policies, and procedures, interpretation of results and information technology.