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Nuclear industry exec resigns

Published Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 | 3:07 p.m.

Updated Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 | 3:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The head of the nuclear industry’s main lobbying arm is stepping down.

Frank L. Bowman resigned as president and CEO today “after much deliberation about the right course of leadership for our industry and the Nuclear Energy Institute during this period of dramatic change in the Congress and the White House.”

The Nuclear Energy Institute is a main supporter of Yucca Mountain, the federal government’s proposed nuclear waste dump planned for 90 miles north of Las Vegas. Bowman led NEI for four years.

“As a new administration and Congress prepare to govern in one of the most challenging periods in our nation’s history, this is a fitting time for NEI to take stock of how best to meet the challenging energy and environment issues that confront,” Bowman wrote in a letter to the board chairman.

NEI said Marvin S. Fertel, its executive vice president and chief nuclear officer, would lead the organization during the transition period.

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