Professionals:Donald P. Irwin

Donald P. Irwin

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Contact

  • Richmond
    p804.788.8357
    f804.343.4536

Education

  • JD, Yale Law School, 1971
  • MA, Yale University, 1971
  • AB, Princeton University, cum laude, 1965

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • Virginia

Awards & Recognition

  • Leader in the Field, Energy: Nuclear (USA), Band 3, Chambers Global, The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2010, 2011 
  • Leader in the Field, Energy: Nuclear, Band 3, Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2010, 2011 
  • Leader in the Field, Energy: Nuclear, Band 4, Chambers USA: Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2009

Memberships

  • Member, American, Virginia, and Richmond Bar Associations
  • Lawyers' Committee, Nuclear Energy Institute (Chairman, 2003-2004)
  • Richmond
    p804.788.8357
    f804.343.4536

Don's practice focuses principally on electric utility and nuclear energy regulatory and project finance issues.

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Don is a partner in the Administrative Law Group, resident in Richmond. His work involves primarily nuclear regulatory issues faced by utilities and other licensees of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and applicants to it.

Relevant Experience

  • Representation of electric utility clients in commercial nuclear power reactor licensing, license renewal, and enforcement proceedings and related matters before U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and related federal court litigation.
  • Representation of electric utility clients in rule making proceedings before U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Environmental Protection Agency and related appellate work.
  • Representation of licensees and individuals with respect to "whistleblower" provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, including NRC and related Department of Labor enforcement proceedings involving allegations of discrimination for having engagement in protected activity.
  • Advice to reactor licensees pertaining to employment at nuclear facilities of foreign materials subject to DOE regulations at 10 CFR Part 810.
  • Representation of nuclear materials licensees with respect to NRC and DOT requirements for transportation of radioactive sources and licensing of shipping containers.
  • Representation of U.S. Department of Energy in licensing of Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
  • Advice to clients on loan guarantee applications to the U.S. Department of Energy for new nuclear power plants.
  • Advice to electric utilities and others in connection with potential mergers and acquisitions involving electric utilities, particularly as they affect nuclear assets.
  • Advice to electric utilities with respect to spent nuclear fuel storage and decommissioning issues.
  • Advice to utilities and suppliers concerning nuclear legal liability structures in U.S. and other countries.
  • Advice concerning effect of U.S. nuclear regulatory requirements for ownership, operation and financing of nuclear power plants.
  • Representation of governments in connection with privatization of electric power assets.
  • Advice to and representation of shippers (U.S. and international) of radioactive materials under U.S. NRC, U.S. DOT and IAEA regulations.
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