Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nomination of Joseph M. Hendrie To Be a Member.

The President today announced that he will nominate Joseph M. Hendrie, of Bellport, N.Y., to be a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Hendrie is chairman of the department of applied science at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y.

Hendrie was born March 18, 1925, in Janesville, Wis. He received a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1950 and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1955. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946.

Hendrie was a research assistant at Columbia University from 1950 to 1955. He worked at Brookhaven Laboratory from 1955 to 1972, beginning as an .assistant physicist in the reactor physics division and ending as head of the engineering division in the department of applied science.

From 1972 to 1974, Hendrie was Deputy Director for Technical Review at the Directorate of Licensing of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Since 1975 he has been chairman of the department of applied science at Brookhaven Laboratory.

Hendrie is a member of the board of directors of the American Nuclear Society and serves on the Risk-Impact Panel, Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems, of the National Research Council. Since 1974 he has been the U.S. representative on the International Atomic Energy Agency's Senior Advisory Group on Reactor Safety Codes and Guides. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1966 to 1972. He has had numerous articles published in professional journals.