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The League of Women Voter’s monthly community event, Lunch with a Leader, will take place via Zoom at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15. Below you will see how to get on the Zoom meeting. 

 Our speaker will be Ms. Bobbi Merryman. She  is a young nuclear engineer pursuing her PhD at the University of New Mexico. While her technical research focuses on developing new criticality safety code methods for loosely – coupled systems; she is active in nuclear energy public education and policy advocacy. She is a Co-Chair for the American Nuclear Society (ANS) retention committee, the UNM ANS Advocacy Officer, and previously served on the Board of Directors for Generation Atomic. She is currently developing a working group on Spent Nuclear Fuel options for New Mexico and the greater Southwest.  

She will discuss the safety of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage (SNF) storage installations in New Mexico and Texas for receipt of SNF from 99 US operating commercial nuclear power reactors and decommissioned U.S. nuclear facilities. 

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscO2gqzMsE9BmeTJLrGfPc5M5GJLX7vTy 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.