Martin James O'Neill

Martin O’Neill ’00 is an attorney with the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, D.C. he is a former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and private sector attorney with two decades of experience representing diverse business and governmental entities in regulatory, licensing, litigation, and enforcement matters before the NRC, related state agencies, and adjudicatory tribunals. His experience includes advising clients on applications for the initial issuance, renewal, amendment, and transfer of power reactor and radioactive materials licenses; successfully defending license applications in contested adjudications before NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Boards; preparing comments on draft agency rulemakings and other documents; performing due diligence reviews to support commercial transactions; and performing internal investigations into allegations of wrongdoing at nuclear power plants. O’Neill’s core knowledge areas include nuclear facilities and radioactive materials regulation, administrative law, and environmental law, especially application of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other federal environmental statutes to agency actions.

He has a B.A. degree in geology from Colgate University and has studied hydrogeology at the graduate level. O’Neill received his J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law with a focus on environmental law.