Thomas Wellock (born 1959) is the American historian for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Trained as both an engineer and a historian, he writes scholarly histories of the regulation of commercial nuclear energy.
A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk with the University of California Press in 2021.
He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1995, with a dissertation published as Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
[6] In 2007, Wellock also published Preserving the Nation: The Conservation and Environmental Movements, 1870-2000.