Peter Prassinos

Pete Prassinos died May 15. He was 75.

Prassinos of Boyds, Maryland was born on Jan. 17, 1949 in Hampton, Virginia; he was the son of George and Helvetia Prassinos. He worked at Idaho National Engineering Lab at the Loss of Fluid Testing Facility, was an engineering consultant to Sandia National Labs studying hydrogen combustion in various physical confinement configurations, and helped establish Tecnadyne Engineering Consultants in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1984 and worked on safety engineering probabilistic risk assessment of nuclear power plants, packaging for shipping radioactive material in transportation systems, and was a member of the DOE panel that reviewed the Chernobyl accident. He was the office director for the LLNL Germantown Field Office which reviewed EISs for DOE Germantown. He was loaned to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and later to NASA, where he conducted PRAS for space systems and operations. He joined NASA before he retired in 2012.

Along with his wife, Judy, he is survived by his three children, Callie, Nikolas and Alec, and three grandchildren. A celebration of his life will be held on July 20 in Rockville, Maryland.