M.S., Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, PA, 1970
B.S., Meteorology, City College of New York, NY, 1968
A.A., Mathematics, Kingsborough Community College, NY, 1966
Mr. Mazzola is currently a Senior Safety Analyst at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Subject Matter Expert with Project Enhancement Corporation with almost 52 years of experience. His primary focus areas are nuclear safety, risk management, chemical safety, software quality assurance, environmental management, and emergency preparedness & response. He is currently involved in various nuclear safety, environmental management, and emergency management programs in both the public and private sectors and has provided expert testimony on several occasions at federal rule making and power generation facility hearings.
DOE facilities where such expertise has been applied include Savannah River Site, Nevada Nuclear Security Site, Waste Isolation Pilot Plant), Sandia National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Hanford Reservation, and Oak Ridge Reservation. He has also supported numerous projects in the nuclear power industry within his areas of expertise, which include Byron, Braidwood, Comanche Peak, Diablo Canyon, Dresden, Quad Cities, La Salle, Browns Ferry, Oconee, Beaver Valley, Millstone, Fort Calhoun, Davis-Besse, Point Beach, Kewaunee, Sequoyah, Watts Bar, Limerick, Peach Bottom, and the Private Fuels Storage Facility.
He served as a subject matter expert on the Meteorology Working Group of the Interagency Nuclear Safety Review Panel that developed Safety Evaluation Reports for risk-informed analyses associated with a spectrum of potential accidents from the launch and reentry of space vehicles, inclusive of the Mars Science Laboratory launch of Curiosity on November 25, 2011. He served in this same capacity with an additional responsibility of leading the Software Quality Assurance Working Group for Mars 2020 launch of Perseverance on July 30, 2020.
He provided significant environmental permitting, chemical safety, and ES & H support to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility Project as the Environmental Manager and Chemical Coordinator for 15 years. This project achieved ISO-14001 certification and membership in the South Carolina Environmental Excellence Program.
He managed and supported emergency preparedness and environmental compliance projects at SRS for eight years. He has directed various environmental monitoring and consequence assessment programs, conducted meteorological program appraisals, and executed specialized atmospheric flow phenomena studies for licensees of civilian nuclear facilities. Earlier in his career, he was involved in the licensing activities associated with nuclear and fossil fueled power plants including the provision of expert testimony at Federal and State hearings.
He has authored more than 100 technical publications and presentations at various national and international forums.