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Gunji Nishio

Gunji Nishio (chemical engineering, Professional Technology School, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 1957) is a principal engineer at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). He is engaged in solvent fire and explosion tests to demonstrate safety evaluation methods for a postulated accident in a spent-fuel reprocessing plant. He was previously engaged in safety research in reactor containment spray tests for light water reactor (LWR) loss-of-coolant accidents and in aerosol behavior in the containment in fast breeder reactor accidents.

Kazuichiro Hashimoto

Kazuichiro Hashimoto (BS, electrical engineering, Keoi University, Japan, 1976) is a research engineer at JAERI. He is presently engaged in severe LWR fuel damage research. His current interest is the pool scrubbing effect for aerosols under severe LWR accident conditions. He was previously engaged in the solvent fire test program for reprocessing plants.

T. J. Liaw

T. J. Liaw (photo not available) [BS, 1986, and MS, 1988, nuclear engineering. National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan] currently serves in the army and plans to begin work at Taipower Company of Taiwan in 1990. His research interests include reactor physics and thermal hydraulics.

Chin Pan

Chin Pan (BS, nuclear engineering, NTHU, Taiwan, 1979; MS, 1983, and PhD, 1985, nuclear engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is an associate professor of nuclear engineering at NTHU. His current research activities involve boiling heat transfer, concentration effect in steam generators, and reactor safety analysis.

Gen-Shun Chen

Gen-Shun Chen (PhD, nuclear engineering. University of Cincinnati, 1985) is an associate professor of nuclear engineering at NTHU. His interests focus on reactor dynamics and neutron transport.

Jung-Kue Hsiue

Jung-Kue Hsiue (MS, nuclear engineering, NTHU, 1972) is the division head of nuclear safety analysis at Taiwan Power Company. He is responsible for transport and accident analysis. His main interests are in plant design review, safety analysis, licensing, and probabilistic risk analysis.

Rosanna Chambers

Rosanna Chambers (top right) (MA, mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1966) is currently a principal program specialist for EG&G Idaho (EG&G) in the Advanced Reactor Severe Accident Program at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). Her past experience includes severe reactor accident management, computer code assessment, and simulation of reactor transients and accidents.

Duane J. Hanson

Duane J. Hanson (top left) (MS, mechanical engineering, Stanford University, 1968) is a senior engineering specialist for EG&G at INEL. His primary interests include severe accident management and resolution of reactor safety issues.

R. Jack Dallman

R. Jack Dallman (bottom right) (MS, mechanical engineering. University of Nebraska, 1978) is manager of reactor safety analysis for EG&G at INEL. His technical interests focus on the phenomenological and risk-based safety evaluations of nuclear and nonnuclear facilities.

Fuat Odar

Fuat (Frank) Odar (bottom left) (PhD, civil engineering. Northwestern University, 1962) is a senior reactor systems engineer in the Reactor and Plant Systems Branch, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is the project manager of various projects on the management of severe accidents. His past experience includes research on thermal hydrauUcs of nuclear reactors.

Hoju Moon

Hoju Moon [MS, nuclear engineering. The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), 1988] is currently pursuing his PhD degree. His research interest is in fuel management and nodal coarse-mesh reactor analysis.

Samuel H. Levine

Samuel H. Levine (PhD, nuclear physics. University of Pittsburgh, 1954) is a professor of nuclear engineering at PSU. His current technical interests are in fuel management, neutron radiography, optimization techniques, beta dosimetry, reactor design, fast reactor physics, researchreactor experiments, and neutron spectrum measurements and calculations.

Moussa Mahgerefteh

Moussa Mahgerefteh (MS, physics, 1977; PhD, nuclear engineering, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, 1984) is a senior nuclear engineer at GPU Nuclear Corporation, where his principal activities are in fuel management and plant life extension studies for Three Mile Island Unit 1.

Tatsutoshi Inagaki

Tatsutoshi Inagaki (BS, chemical engineering, 1967, and MS, nuclear engineering, 1969, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) has been the manager of the fast breeder reactor (FBR) development department at the Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) since 1985. He previously managed FBR plant design and research and development (R&D) at the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Federation of Electric Power Companies. For 20 years, his technical interests have been in the areas of reactor physics and plant design for liquid-metal fast breeder reactors.

Hiroyuki Kuga

Hiroyuki Kuga (no photo available) was an engineer at the JAPC until his death in 1988.

Masao Suzuki

Masao Suzuki (top right) (BS, physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, 1969) is the manager of the Core and Safety Engineering Section of the advanced reactor engineering department at Toshiba Corporation. He has worked in the area of FBR core design since 1969. His current interests include core design of a demonstration FBR, planning of FBR core development, and advanced core concepts

Tsugio Yokoyama

Tsugio Yokoyama (top left) (BS, 1971, and MS, 1973, nuclear engineering, Tohoku University, Japan) is an engineer in the advanced reactor engineering department at Toshiba Corporation. He has worked in the area of FBR core design since 1973. His current interests include core design for a demonstration FBR and advanced core concepts.

Mitsuaki Yamaoka

Mitsuaki Yamaoka (center right) (BS, 1978, and MS, 1981, nuclear engineering, Osaka University, Japan) is a researcher at the Nippon Atomic Industry Group Company Nuclear Research Laboratory. He has worked in the areas of FBR physics and core design since 1981. His current interests include development of core calculational methods and advanced core concepts.

Kunikazu Kaneto

Kunikazu Kaneto (BS, nuclear engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, 1971) is a senior engineer in the advanced reactor and nuclear fuel cycle department at the Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Works. He has been engaged in core design and R&D for FBRs and heavy water reactors (HWRs). His current interests are in the area of core system development for demonstration FBRs and HWRs

Masahisa Ohashi

Masahisa Ohashi BS, nuclear engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan, 1974) is an engineer in the advanced reactor and nuclear fuel cycle department at the Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Works. He has been engaged in FBR core design and R&D. His current interests are in the areas of core design for a demonstration FBR and advanced core concepts.

Kunitoshi Kurihara

Kunitoshi Kurihara (PhD, nuclear engineering, Osaka University, Japan, 1984) is a senior researcher at the Hitachi, Ltd., Energy Research Laboratory. He has been engaged in research on reactor noise analysis, reactor physics, and core design for FBRs, HWRs, and boiling water reactors. His current interests are in the area of advanced core disgn for improved fuel economy and safty.

Jean Mégy

Jean Megy (Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, France) is director of the Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires de Cadarache, Commissariat a I’Energie Atomique (CEA). He was director of the Reprocessing and Waste Management Division at CEA from 1980 to 1987. He played a key role in the development of the fast breeder program in France as the head of the Phenix project and director of the Superphenix project. His interests involve nuclear reactor design and fuel cycle.

Robert Harold Allardice

Robert Harold Allardice (photo not available) (applied chemistry, Glasgow University, United Kingdom) has had a 40-year career in the nuclear industry, working for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and for British Nuclear Fuels pic.

Klaus Ebert

Klaus Ebert (Dr., physical chemistry. University of Vienna, Austria, 1954; Prof., applied physical chemistry. University of Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany, 1969) is director of the Institut fiir HeiBe Chemie at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe. His research interests include the kinetics of complex chemical systems and applications in chemical engineering.

Jean-Marie Morelle

Jean-Marie Morelle right) (Ingenieur Civil Electricien et Mecanicien, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; MS, nuclear engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is director of the fast breeder and fuels programs at Belgonucleaire. He worked on the Kalkar project from 1968 to 1972 and has also been responsible for the design and fabrication of fuel for the Internationale Natrium Baugesellschaft reactor. A photograph and a biography for

Paolo Venditti

Paolo Venditti were not available at publication time.

Mrs. Shakila Abdul Majeed

Mrs. Shakila Abdul Majeed (MSc, chemistry, Bombay University, India, 1982) joined the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Bombay, in 1981. She has worked in the Radiochemistry Program of the Indira Gandhi Center (IGC) for Atomic Research since 1983 and is presently working in the Materials Science Division, IGC.

Thandangorai Ganapathi Srinivasan

Thandangorai Ganapathi Srinivasan (BSc, chemistry, Madras University, India, 1972) joined BARC in 1973. He was a member of the Fuel Reprocessing Division at BARC until 1982 when he was transferred to IGC.

Kanwal Nain Sabharwal

Kanwal Nain Sabharwal (MSc, chemistry, Delhi University, India, 1979) joined BARC in 1981. He has been with IGC since 1982.

Wen-Shan Lin

Wen-Shan Lin [BS, 1983, and MS, 1985, nuclear engineering, National Tsing-Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan] is a PhD candidate in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at NTHU. His research interests include two-phase flow, boiling heat transfer, and reactor safety analysis.

Chien-Hsiung Lee

Chien-Hsiung Lee (BS, 1972, and MS, 1976, mechanical engineering, Chung-Cheng Institute of Technology, Taiwan; PhD, nuclear engineering, Purdue University, 1987) is the manager of the thermohydraulic laboratory at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research. His main research interests include transient critical heat flux, boiling heat transfer, and reactor safety analysis.

Bau-Shei Pei

Bau-Shei Pei (BS, nuclear engineering, NTHU, 1975; MS, 1980, and PhD, 1981, nuclear engineering. University of Cincinnati) is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at NTHU. His research interests are in two-phase flow and heat transfer, reactor safety analysis, and severe core damage study.

Hassan E. S. Fath

Hassan E. S. Path (BSc, 1972, and MSc, 1975, Alexandria University, Egypt; MS, engineering, 1977, and PhD, 1981, McMaster University, Canada) is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Alexandria University. He was a visiting professor at the University of Technology, Iraq, and Beirut University, Lebanon, from 1985 to 1988, and worked at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited from 1980 to 1982. He was a member of the Egyptian Nuclear Safety Commission from 1983 to 1985. His research interests include thermal engineering applications.

Makarem A. Hussein

Makarem A. Hussein (BS and MSc, nuclear engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt; PhD, nuclear engineering and engineering physics. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989) has worked in the field of numerical simulation and modeling since 1982. He worked on the simulation of fluid flow, particularly moderator circulation in CANDU reactors, from 1982 to 1985. His current research interests include simulation of plasmas for fusion reactor systems and plasma processing experiments.

Carol A. Jaeger

Carol A. Jaeger [MS, mechanical engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU), 1988] is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at VPI&SU. Her research interests are in instrumentation, controls, and computer appUcations.

Eric R. Ellis

Eric R. Ellis is a laboratory instrument worker in the electrical engineering department at VPI&SU and is completing requirements for a degree in nuclear science at VPI&SU. He has extensive experience in reactor operations and nuclear instrumentation.

Thomas F. Parkinson

Thomas F. Parkinson (PhD, physics, University of Virginia, 1953) has been a professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at VPI&SU since 1975. His research interests include nuclear instrumentation, neutron activation analysis, reactor physics, and reactor safety.

DeeEarl Vaden

DeeEarl Vaden (BS, chemical engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1979; MS, chemical engineering, University of Arizona, 1982) is a chemical engineer in the Reactor Neutronics and Chemistry Section at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II (EBR-II), operated by Argonne National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy. He is responsible for the monitoring of impurity levels in the primary and secondary sodium gas systems at EBR-II as well as the operation and calibration of impurity monitoring equipment. He has 5 years’ experience in operating and calibrating the hydrogen meter leak detectors at EBR-II.