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Ronald J. Lipinski

Ronald J. Lipinski (BS, physics, California Institute of Technology, 1971;MS, 1973, and PhD, 1976, nuclear engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has been at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) since 1977. His recent past experience and current interest is in modeling boiling and dryout in porous media.

John E. Gronager

John E. Gronager (BS, engineering science, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1973; MS, 1975, and PhD, 1978, nuclear engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) joined SNL in 1978. He was the lead experimenter in the in-pile debris test D-4 and is currently the lead experimenter for future D-series tests.

Michel Schwarz

Michel Schwarz (Dipl. Ing., Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures de Paris, 1972) was on assignment at SNL from the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in France. He is currently working in the Safety Department at Cadarache and is involved in code development and experiment analysis regarding the French Fast Reactor Safety Program. His interests include thermohydraulics and computational methods.

Satoshi Suzuki

Satoshi Suzuki (MS, electrical engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, 1973) is a researcher at the Energy Research Laboratory (ERL), Hitachi Ltd., Japan. He is working in the area of monitoring and control of nuclear power plants. His current interests are in the field of system identification and optimization problems.

Kohyu Fukunishi

Kohyu Fukunishi (PhD, control engineering, Osaka University, Japan, 1977) has engaged in the control engineering and data processing of nuclear power plants and also in the control engineering of the nuclear fusion facility at ERL, Hitachi Ltd. He was visiting researcher at the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Laboratory from 1979 to 1980. His current interests are in CAD of control system and diagnostic analysis of nuclear power plants.

Alex Galperin

Alex Galperin (MS, engineering physics, Leningrad Poly-technical Institute, USSR, 1969; PhD, nuclear engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 1979) is lecturer in the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the Ben-Gurion University. His research interests are in the field of nuclear fuel cycle analysis and particularly improvements in fuel utilization.

Yigal Ronen

Yigal Ronen (BS, mechanical engineering, and MS, nuclear engineering, 1967, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; PhD, nuclear engineering, Cornell University, 1970) is associate professor of nuclear engineering at Ben-Gurion University. His research interests include advanced concepts of nuclear reactors and problems in uncertainty analysis.

Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

Hiroyuki Tsuchiya (MS, nuclear engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1972) has worked in the development of radwaste treatment systems and is currently involved in the uranium enrichment system at the Energy Research Laboratory (ERL) of Hitachi, Ltd.

Yamato Asakura

Yamato Asakura (MS, nuclear engineering, Nagoya University, 1975) has worked in the development of radiation reduction procedures in boiling water reactor (BWR) plants and is currently involved in deuterium-tritium isotope separation by chemical exchange reactions at ERL.

Kunio Kamiya

Kunio Kamiya (BS, electrical engineering, Ibaraki University, 1967) has worked in the development of radwaste treatment systems at ERL.

Hideo Yusa

Hideo Yusa (BS, physics, Tohoku University, 1959; Dr. Eng., nuclear engineering, Osaka University, 1969) is a chief researcher in radwaste treatment development at ERL.

Masaki Takeshima

Masaki Takeshima (MS, nuclear engineering, Tokyo University, 1968) is a senior engineer in the BWR plant design at the head office of Hitachi, Ltd.

Abdul-Rahman Foad Abdul-Fattah

Abdul-Rahman Foad Abdul-Fattah (PhD, nuclear engineering, Iowa State University, 1978) is an assistant professor of electrical engineering at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His technical interests currently include activation analysis, siting of nuclear power plants, nuclear desalination, and system analysis.

Waleed H. Abulfaraj

Waleed H. Abulfaraj (MS, nuclear engineering, Iowa State University) is a PhD candidate in nuclear engineering at Iowa State University and on leave from the Nuclear Engineering Department at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His current research work is on planning a nuclear research center for Saudi Arabia.

E. Teuchert

E. Teuchert [PhD, theoretical physics, University of Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)] has been employed by Kernforschungsanlage JUlich (KFA) since 1964. His current interests are computer code system development and analysis of high temperature reactors (HTRs) and HTR fuel cycles, preferably of the pebble bed reactor.

H. J. Rütten

H. J. RUtten (PhD, engineering science, Technische Hochschule Aachen, FRG, 1976) joined KFA in 1972. He is working on HTR core design and fuel cycle, especially for the OTTO reactor. His current interests are burnup physics and the design of HTRs in a high converting fuel cycle.

H. Werner

H. Werner (PhD, engineering science, Technische Hochschule Aachen, FRG, 1975) joined KFA in 1971, His current interests are core design, burnup physics, and the fuel cycle of the HTR (OTTO, pebble bed reactor) within the PNP project.

Alfred L. B. Ho

Alfred L. B. Ho (BS, 1975, and MS, 1977, nuclear engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; PhD, nuclear engineering, Purdue University, 1981) is working in the Neuronics and Fuel Management Section of Exxon Nuclear Company. His current interests are in the areas of in-core power monitoring, neutronic method development, and core management analysis.

Alexander Sesonske

Alexander Sesonske (PhD, University of Delaware, 1950) is professor of nuclear engineering at Purdue University. In addition to nuclear fuel management, his interests include nuclear reactor engineering and liquid-metal heat transfer.

Meyer Steinberg

Meyer Steinberg (BS, chemical engineering, Cooper Union, 1944; MS, Polytechnic Institute, 1949) is head of the Process Sciences Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). He started his career in the Manhattan District on gaseous diffusion and plutonium recovery. At BNL he worked on radiation chemical processing and recently on coal conversion alone, and with the use of fission and fusion power for synthetic fuels.

James R. Powell

James R. Powell (BS, chemical engineering, ScD, nuclear engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958) is head of the Reactor Systems Office in the Department of Nuclear Energy at BNL. He has worked on analyses of liquid-metal-fueled reactors, advanced reactor concepts for nuclear rocket propulsion, applications of superconductivity, ball lightning, fusion, and high temperature electrolysis.

Hiroshi Takahashi

Hiroshi Takahashi (PhD, electrical physics, Waseda University, 1959) has been working on physics and mathematics in the area of nuclear reactors at BNL, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, and Euratom Research Center at ISPRA and was a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1966. His current research interest at BNL is in accelerator reactors and the u-catalyzed fusion reaction.

Hiromichi Fumoto

Hiromichi Fumoto (BS and MS, nuclear chemical engineering, University of Tokyo) has been a doctoral research associate at the Institute for Chemical Technology of Kern-forschungsanlage JUlich (KFA) since 1979. His current research is in extraction studies for the separation process of nuclear reprocessing.

Erich Zimmer

Erich Zimmer [Dr. rer. nat., chemistry, University of Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), 1965] is a section head at the Institute for Chemical Technology of the KFA. He is involved in reprocessing, waste treatment, and refabrication developments.

Ryohei Kiyose

Ryohei Kiyose (BS, physics, 1952; MS, chemical engineering, 1954; and PhD, nuclear engineering, 1976, University of Tokyo) is a professor of nuclear chemical engineering at the University of Tokyo and is interested in reprocessing and waste management technology and safety aspects of nuclear fuel facilities.

Erich R. Merz

Erich R. Merz (Dr. rer, nat, nuclear chemistry, University of Mainz, FRG, 1957, professor of Nuclear Technology Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 1970) is director of the Institute for Chemical Technology of KFA since 1968. He is a member of the German Reactor Safety Commission. His work has been in the area of the backend of the nuclear fuel cycle including radioactive waste disposal.

Robert C. Doerner

Robert C. Doerner (BS, physics, St. Johns University, 1949; PhD, physics, St. Louis University, 1954) is presently involved in light water reactor safety analysis and plant performance studies at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) after previous participation in the ANL fast reactor safety experiments program.

Theodore H. Bauer

Theodore H. Bauer (PhD, physics, Cornell University, 1970) has worked since 1977 on the analysis and planning of in-pile experiments for the RAS Division of ANL. His current interests lie in the effective use of experiments in the analysis of reactor safety issues.

Charles L. Fink

Charles L. Fink (BS, physics, 1966, and PhD, nuclear physics, 1971, University of Pittsburg) is a research physicist whose current work at ANL involves analysis of hodoscope data, development of new mathematical models to describe the hodoscope system, and testing of new fuel motion detectors.

William F. Murphy

William F. Murphy (BS, 1937, and MS, 1939, chemistry, Syracuse University; BS, metallurgy, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1945) is a metallurgist in the Materials Science Division of ANL where he has studied radiation effects on fuels and structural materials and conducted hot cell examinations since 1949. For the past ten years he has performed posttest examinations on TREAT experiments.

Arthur E. Wright

Arthur E. Wright (BS, science engineering, Northwestern University, 1966; MS, 1969, and PhD, 1972, nuclear engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has for ten years been involved in the planning, preparation, and analysis of in-reactor liquid-metal fast breeder reactor safety experiments at ANL.

André Preumont

André Preumont (Ingénieur Civil des Constructions Aéronautiques, 1973, and Docteur en Sciences Appliquées, 1981, University of Liège, Belgium) is currently an independent consultant at Belgonucleaire, where he has been involved for several years in the mechanical design of pressurized water reactor RCC (Zircaloy) fuel assemblies. He is in charge of the seismic analysis of liquid-metal fast breeder reactor cores for which his research involves the time integration of impacting structures and fluid-structure interaction. His other research interests are mainly in random vibration and earthquake simulation.

Antonio Villalobos

Antonio Viltalobos [BA, physics, California State University, San Diego, 1973; MS, physics, 1975, and PhD, nuclear engineering, 1981, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)] is a research scientist in the Department of Nuclear Energy at the Instituto de Investigaciones Eléctricas. His current interests are simulation of nuclear systems, reliability studies, and fission gas behavior.

A. R. Wazzan

A. R. Wazzan (PhD, engineering science, University of California, Berkeley, 1963) is a professor in the Department of Chemical, Nuclear and Thermal Engineering at UCLA. His current fields of interest include light water reactor and fast breeder reactor fuel element modeling, thermal hydraulics of pressurized water reactors, and laminar boundary layers.

D. Okrent

D. Okrent (PhD, physics, Harvard University, 1951) is a professor in the Department of Chemical, Nuclear and Thermal Engineering at UCLA. His current fields of interest include nuclear fuel element behavior, reactor safety, and risk benefit.

Geoffrey G. Eichholz

Geoffrey G. Eichholz (PhD, physics, University of Leeds, 1948) is Regents' professor of nuclear engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT), where he has conducted research over a broad spectrum of radiation technology, including radiation detectors, radiotracer methodology, environmental aspects of nuclear power waste disposal, and radiation effects on materials.

Barry G. Wahlig

Barry G. Wahlig (BS, engineering science. Louisiana State University, 1974; MS, 1975, and PhD, 1980, nuclear engineering, GIT) has done research concerning the migration of water-suspended mineral particles in rock formations. His present professional interest is the application of published research to the regulatory problems of nuclear utilities, especially in the area of emergency response planning.

Gregory F. Powell

Gregory F. Powell (BS, physics, Auburn University, 1979; MS, health physics, GIT, 1980) is presently a graduate student in the field of medical physics in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. His present research interests include digital radiography and radiation cancer therapy using fast neutron beams.

T. F. Craft

T. F. Craft (MA, chemistry, Emory University, 1947, MS, sanitary engineering, 1965, and PhD, nuclear engineering, 1969, Georgia Tech) is senior research scientist at the School of Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics at GIT. His professional and research interests concern water quality, migration of pollutants and radiotracers in subsurface and surface waters, water treatment, and radiation qualification of technical equipment.

Toshiaki Ohe

Toshiaki Ohe (BE, 1975, and ME, 1977, environmental chemistry, Keio University, Japan) is a research chemist at the Energy and Environment Laboratory of the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan. His current interest includes the geochemical behavior of radionuclides, particularly chemisorption.

Akira Nakaoka

Akira Nakaoka (BE, applied chemistry, Seikei University, Japan, 1969) is a senior research chemist at the Energy and Environment Laboratory of CRIEPI. His current interest is in radionuclide behavior analysis on both natural and artificial nuclides in the environment.

Shinji Takagi

Shinji Takagi (BS, 1956; MS, 1958; and PhD, 1961, spectrochemical analysis, University of Tokyo, Japan) is a fellow research chemist at the Energy and Environment Laboratory of CRIEPI. His current interest is in the safety assessment of nuclear materials, especially in nuclear fuel transport.

K. L. Murty

K. L. Murty (MSc, physics, Andhra University, India, 1963; MS, materials science and engineering, Cornell University, 1967; PhD, applied physics and materials science, Cornell University, 1970) has been a senior engineer in the Nuclear Materials Department at the Westinghouse Research and Development Center since 1979 where the research work reported in this article was performed. Since 1979, he has been involved with the development of constitutive equations for deformation and fracture of metals; physical and mechanical metallurgy of Zircaloy materials; fracture behavior, radiation embrittle-ment, and corrosion fatigue of nuclear pressure vessel steels; and anisotropic deformation behavior of textured materials.

J. R. Holland

J. R. Holland (BS, metallurgical engineering, University of Kentucky, 1953; MMet, physical metallurgy, University of Sheffield, England, 1954; PhD, physical metallurgy, University of Kentucky, 1962) is director of the School of Mines and energy development at the University of Alabama. Previously, he was manager of nuclear reactor materials research for West-inghouse Research Laboratories where his activities included studies of radiation damage in reactor pressure vessel steels, simulation of 14-MeV neutron damage in fusion reactor first-wall materials, development of fuel pellets for commercial scale inertiai confinement fusion reactors, development of better alloys for duct cladding required for fast breeder reactors and mechanical behavior of reactor materials.

Martin L. Grossbeck

Martin L. Grossbeck (BS, physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1966; MS, physics, Cornell University, 1968; PhD, University of Illinois, 1975) is at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) where he is leader of the research effort in radiation damage of fusion reactor first-wall materials. His own research is in the area of the effects of radiation on fatigue and tensile properties of materials. From 1967 to 1971, he served as instructor of reactor physics at the U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School. He has worked in the area of hydrogen em-brittlement, refractory metals, fracture behavior, and radiation creep.

Kenneth C. Liu

Kenneth C. Liu (BS, National Taiwan University, Tapei, Taiwan; PhD, engineering and applied science, Yale University) is a research staff member with the Metals and Ceramics Division of ORNL. He has contributed to theoretical and experimental studies of plasticity, multiaxial extensometry for high temperature applications, and fatigue of metals in multiaxial loading.

T. E. Gangwer

T. E. Gangwer (PhD, physical chemistry, Notre Dame University, 1973) is an associate chemist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. His technical interests are in radiation chemistry and nuclear waste management.

K. K. S. Pillay

K. K. S. Pillay (PhD, nuclear chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 1965) is a member of the staff of the Nuclear Safeguards Systems Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was an associate professor of nuclear engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. His professional interests are in process chemistry of nuclear materials and radioactive waste management.