Larry Luckett:
CLASS OF 1967
Highlands High SchoolClass of 1967
San antonio, TX
Trinity UniversityClass of 1971
San antonio, TX
Larry's Story
Life
After Highlands I went to Trinity (BS, cum laude in Physics, 1971) and Texas A&M (MS, Nuclear Engineering, 1973), married Judy Blodgett who I met at Trinity (June 1972 and still attached) and spent 22 years in the Army, all over the world (retired 1993 as Lieutenant Colonel). Lived in New York for 12 years (while Judy taught at West Point) and moved back to San Antonio in 2001 (Northside, who would of thought!?).
I work from my home for a super huge corporation that no one has heard of (URS Corporation). Judy is Vice Principal for Incarnate Word High School after several years teaching and supervising social studies programs at Saint Mary's Hall. In 2001 she retired at the rank of Colonel after 27 year career in the US Army. My official bio follows:
Larry Luckett is a Certified Health Physicist with 30+ years experience in the assessment and management of radiological conditions in occupational, environmental, medical and emergency situations in the United States, the Western Pacific, Europe, and the Former Soviet Union. As a Principal Health Physicist with URS Corporation, he provides project management and radiological consultation for radioactive waste management engineering, environmental risk assessment, siting and licensing services. With URS Corporation at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island, New York, Larry supported radiological remediation and decommissioning across the Laboratory's Environmental Restoration Program. He developed plans for and managed the health and safety for remediation of the Chemical Holes and Animal Pits, as well as sampling and treatment of high-level radioactive and mixed wastes from the Building 811 Waste Consolidation Facility. He evaluated new remote radiation sensing instrumentation for in situ use to quantify radioactive materials inside sealed vessels and ...Expand for more
rooms without opening them to expose personnel or the environment, unnecessarily.
Prior to joining URS-Dames & Moore in 1993, he served as a medical health physicist with the US Army Medical Service Corps for 22 years, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Larry's Army career involved the safety analysis of the uses of radiation sources in Army medical, tactical, and industrial applications, including nuclear weapons deployment and weapons accident response. Highlights of his Army career include participation in the decontamination of nuclear test sites in the Marshall Islands for return to native inhabitants, senior health physics advisor to Secretary Weinberger for Department of Defense nuclear weapons accident response, advisor to NASA on radiation hazards to spacecraft crew members, and leader of the US State Department/DOD radiation medical emergency team to Moscow, USSR following the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident, advising Ambassador Hartman on radiological conditions and risks to US citizens in the USSR. In his last position with the Army, LTC Luckett was an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, where he taught introductory and elective courses in physics, nuclear engineering and environmental radioactivity.
Larry earned a BS degree, cum laude in Physics, from Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. He attended Texas A&M University, on a US Public Health Service Fellowship in Health Physics, where he earned an MS degree in Nuclear Engineering/Health Physics. He attended graduate studies in Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and held academic appointments to the faculty at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD and the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
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