Professor of science policy and international affairs at Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in December 2014. She has written at least ten articles for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Views In her 2006 book, Uncertainty Underground, Macfarlane criticized plans to store spent nuclear fuel in a mountain near Las Vegas called Yucca Mountain. She said the seismic and volcanic activity as well as oxidizing in the environment would make the nuclear waste unstable. Macfarlane has supported storing nuclear waste at reactor sites in dry casks and the allocation of billions to find a suitable geologic repository for storage over the next few decades. Works "Déjà vu for U.S. nuclear waste". Science. 30 June 2017 Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High Level Nuclear Waste, MIT Press, 2006. Personal life Macfarlane is married to Hugh Gusterson, a professor of anthropology and author of works on nuclear culture, with whom she has two children. References External links Nuclear agency’s new chief, Allison Macfarlane, on science and ‘Downton Abbey’ NRC Chief says agency prioritized lessons from Japan disaster For new nuclear chief, concerns over plant safety What's next for the NRC: A conversation with Allison Macfarlane Welcome Remarks International Regulators Conference on Nuclear Security, December 4, 2012. Speech to Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), Atlanta, November 6, 2012. Platts Energy Week TV interview November 25, 2012 Press Conference at National Press Club August 14, 2012 Keynote address Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference April 8, 2013 Remarks at Fuel Cycle Exchange conference, Rockville, MD, June 11, 2013 Remarks at State Liaison Officers Conference, Rockville MD, November 5, 2013 Remarks at American Nuclear Society meeting, November 11, 2013 Regulatory Information Conference keynote address, March 11, 2014 video Regulatory Information Conference keynote address official text, March 11, 2014 Regulatory Information Conference keynote address slides, March 11. 2014 On leadership and nuclear power The Washington Post interview August 6, 2013. The New York Times profile November 17, 2014. The Washington Post profile October 21, 2014. Galison, Peter & Robb Moss, "Containment" (documentary), Independent Lens, premiered January 9, 2017 on U.S. PBS. Interviewed as part of review of nuclear power and waste disposal. Living people George Washington University faculty George Mason University faculty Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials People associated with nuclear power University of Rochester alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Obama administration personnel