Stephen G. Burns is an American lawyer and the 15th and former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Burns received a bachelor's degree in 1975 from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

He left the NRC to serve as Head of Legal Affairs of the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris from April 2012, until he rejoined the NRC in November 2014 with a term which ended on April 30, 2019.

[3] He was appointed as the chair of the IAEA’s International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group in May 2022.

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