Jeff C. Griffin

Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Office of Environmental Management, Department of Energy

Dr. Griffin is serving as the Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations for the $7.2B Office of Environmental Management (EM). In this key leadership position, Dr. Griffin has the overriding responsibility to support 16 EM field sites working across the Nation to clean up and safely disposition large volumes of nuclear waste, safeguard and prepare for disposition of nuclear materials, deactivate and decommission several thousand radiologically and chemically contaminated facilities, and remediate extensive surface and groundwater contamination. Prior to joining EM, Dr. Griffin served as the Associate Laboratory Director for Environmental Stewardship at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), where he held responsibility for the leadership and development of the SRNL portfolio in environmental cleanup, an
$80+ million portfolio covering support for EM, the DOE Office of Legacy Management, and other national and international programs. During Dr. Griffin’s 30 years with SRNL, he served in many positions, primarily in the areas of high-level waste processing, radiochemistry, analytical chemistry, and nuclear materials measurements. He also served as managing director for SRNL support to Japanese remediation efforts in and around the Fukushima Daiichi Power Station.
Dr. Griffin holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology.

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