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Appendix H
Biographical Sketches of Molten Salt
Pane! Members and Consultants
John L. Margrave, Chair, is the E.D. Butcher Professor of
Chemistry at Rice University. His professional interests lie in areas of
physical-inorganic chemistry including matrix-isolation spectroscopy and
metal atom chemistry; fluorine chemistry; high-temperature chemistry,
including mass spectrometry; levitation calorimetry and fluorine bomb
calorimetry; laser applications; chemical vapor deposition of thin films;
and environmental chemistry. Dr. Margrave was a member of the
founding board of directors of Houston Advanced Research Center,
where he has also served as vice president for research, director of the
Materials Science Research Center, and currently serves as chief
scientific officer. He has edited the journal High Temperature and
Materials Science since its founding and has received numerous
professional awards. A member of the National Academy of Sciences,
Dr. Margrave has served on many National Research Council
committees. He received his B.S. in engineering physics and Ph.D. in
chemistry from the University of Kansas.
Sol Burstein is a registered professional engineer and currently
does consulting work mainly in the areas of nuclear and mechanical
engineering management. He retired as vice chairman of the board of
directors of Wisconsin Energy Corporation and spent 21 years of his career
with Wisconsin Electric Power Company. Dr. Burstein is the recipient of
numerous awards and honors, including distinguished service awards from
the University of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and the Engineering
and Scientific Societies of Milwaukee. He has served on numerous industry
and government advisory committees, including the Nuclear Safety
Research Review Committee of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
several committees of the National Research Council, and its Board on
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Radioactive Waste Management. Dr. Burstein is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. He received his B.S.M.E. from Northeastern
University and an honorary D.Sc. from the University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee.
Robert Catlin is a licensed medical physicist and certified health
physicist. He retired in 1995 as executive director, clinical and laboratory
safety, at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston,
where he also served as executive director of the Positron Diagnostic and
Research Center and taught radiological science at the School of Public
Health. Previously, he served as scientific adviser for the Electric Power
Research Institute and had careers in federal service and industry. Mr.
Catlin is a member of Sigma Xi, the American Academy of Health
Physics, and other professional societies. He has participated as a
consultant to the former Soviet Union and to the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) on radiological matters for incidents at Chernobyl and at
Chelyabinsk. He has served on numerous industry and government
advisory committees, including those of the National Council on
Radiation Protection and Measurements and the National Research
Council's Board on Radioactive Waste Management. Mr. Catlin received
his A.B. degree in biology from Princeton University and an M.S.
equivalent in health physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Gregory R. Choppin is the R. O. Lawton Distinguished
Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University. Dr. Choppin's
research includes nuclear chemistry, physical chemistry of the actinides
and lanthanides, environmental behavior of actinides, chemistry of the f-
Elements, separation science of the f-Elements, and concentrated
electrolyte solutions. During a postdoctoral period at the Lawrence
Radiation [Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, he participated
in the discovery of mendelevium, element 101. His research activities
have been recognized by the American Chemical Society's Award in
Nuclear Chemistry and Southern Chemist Award, the Manufacturing
Chemists award in Chemical Education, and a Presidential Citation
Award of the American Nuclear Society. He has served on numerous
National Research Council committees and currently is a member of the
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology and the Board on
Radioactive Waste Management's Committee on Remediation of Buried
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and Tank Wastes. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Loyola
University, New OrIeans, his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of
Texas, Austin; an honorary degree from Chalmers University, Goteborg,
Sweden; and an honorary D.Sc. from Loyola University.
Melvin S. Coops is currently a part-time staff member with
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a consultant with Los
Alamos National Laboratory and, through the University of Chicago, is a
technical reviewer of the Nuclear Technology Program at Argonne
National Laboratory. Mr. Coops's experience in chemical separations of
radioactive materials, actinide metallurgy, and remotely operates}
processing systems spans more than 40 years. He is an expert in nuclear
fuel cycle chemistry using both aqueous methods and pyrochemical
techniques. His experience includes separations chemistry of the fission
product and lanthanide and actinide elements, with a special interest in
the chemistry, metallurgy, and nuclear properties of the isotopes of
uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium. Mr. Coops is
retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory but continues to
work there part-time. He has been a member of the American Nuclear
Society since its inception. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from the
University of California at Berkeley and an Sc.D. equivalent from
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Floyd L. Culler, Jr., is president emeritus of the Electric Power
Research Institute (EPRI). He is recognized for his knowledge and
leadership in all types of energy research and development, analysis, and
related environmental impact assessment. Prior to his service with EPRI,
he was deputy director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Mr. Culler spent 30 years at ORNE in nuclear energy, chemical
reprocessing, reactor research, fuel cycles, and radioactive waste
management. He has received many honors, including the International
Atoms for Peace Award and the E.O. Lawrence Memorial Award. He is a
member of the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of
Chemists, and the National Academy of Engineering, and he served on
the Scientific Advisory Committee to the International Atomic Energy
Agency. He received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the Johns
Hopkins University.
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Albert W. Jache is professor emeritus of chemistry at Marquette
University, where he has served as dean of the Graduate School,
associate vice president for Health Sciences, and associate vice president
for Academic Affairs. His research interests lie primarily in the area of
inorganic chemistry, with emphasis on fluorine and its compounds. The
concept of anhydrous water-like systems as solvents and reaction media
has had special attention. Dr. Jache has served in various posts, including
scientist in residence at Argonne National Laboratory. He has also had
considerable industrial research experience. He is a member of the
American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research
Society. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science and the American Institute of Chemists. He received his B.S.
and M.S. in chemistry from the University of New Hampshire and his
Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Washington.
Ronald A. Knief is a principal consultant with Ogden
Environmental and Energy Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr.
Knief, formerly with the University of New Mexico and GPU Nuclear
Corporation, has primary interests that include nuclear safety, risk
management, and performance-based education and training. At Ogden
he has served on nuclear safety oversight committees and has been
involved in safety analysis and training projects for a number of
commercial and DOE complex facilities. Dr. Knief is the author of
textbooks on nuclear engineering and nuclear criticality safety and is
editor of two books on risk management. He is a fellow of the American
Nuclear Society (ANS), recipient of the ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety
Division Achievement Award, an active participant in the development
of American National Standards Tnstitute's ANSI-ANS-8-series
standards for nuclear criticality safety, and a member of Sigma Xi, The
Scientific Research Society. He received his B.A. in physics,
mathematics, and economics from Albion College and his Ph.D. in
nuclear engineering from the University of TIlinois at Urbana-
Champaign.
Milton Levenson has done consulting work in chemical
engineering with an emphasis on reactor safety, water reactor technology,
fuel cycle technology, and breeder reactor development since his
retirement as vice president of Bechte] International. He has also served
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as director of nuclear power for the Electric Power Research Institute. He
received the Robert E. Wilson Award of the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers. Mr. Levenson is a fellow of the American Institute
of Chemical Engineers and the American Nuclear Society and a member
of the National Academy of Engineering. He received his B.Ch.E. from
the University of Minnesota.
Robert A. Penneman is currently a consultant with Los Alamos
National Laboratory and was a scientist at that facility for most of his
professional career. Dr. Penneman's research interests include general
chemistry, actinides, americium-curium, fluorine, infrared and structural
chemistry, radiochemistry-radiation effects, radioactive nuclide handling,
and waste storage. His numerous publications include an encyclopedia
and chapters in Katz and Seaborg's (1986) The Chemistry of the Actinide
Elements. He is a founding member and editor of Inorganic Chemistry,
and an editor of the Journal of Inorganic ant! Nuclear Chemistry and
Inorganic Chemistry [esters. He has received the Seaborg Award for
Actinide Separations Chemistry. Dr. Penneman is a member of the
American Chemical Society, as well as many other professional societies.
He received an A.B. from Millikin University, an M.S. in chemistry from
the University of Illinois, a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the
University of Illinois, and an honorary Sc.D. from Millikin University.
Robert A. Rapp is distinguished university professor emeritus of
materials science and engineering at Ohio State University. Dr. Rapp's
professional interests include oxidation of metals and alloys,
thermodynamics, electrochemistry, chemical metallurgy, and physical
metallurgical engineering. In the past, he has served as a Fulbright fellow
of the Max Planck Institute of Physical Chemistry and as a Guggenheim
fellow at the University of Grenoble. Dr. Rapp's awards include the
Howe Gold Medal of the American Society of Metals, the Willis R
Whitney Award of the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, and
the U.H. Evans Award of the British Institute of Corrosion. He is a fellow
of the Electrochemical Society; ASM International; the National
Association of Corrosion Engineers; and the American Institute of
Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. He received his B.S.
from Purdue University and both his M.S. and his Ph.D. in metallurgical
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engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, as well as an
honorary Ph.D. from the Polytechnical Institute of Toulouse.
Edwin L. Zebroski is director of risk management services at
Aptech Engineering Services, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California, and also
provides consulting services on risk analysis and decision analysis
through EIgis Consulting Company. He has extensive experience in the
design, development, safety, materials, and fuel cycle aspects of light-
water reactors and sodium-cooled fast reactors. He has authored many
technical publications, including patents and sections of six books.
Previous positions include manager of development engineering, General
Electric Company's nuclear division; director of systems and materials
department and chief nuclear scientist at the Electric Power Research
Institute; and vice president of engineering at the Institute for Nuclear
Power Operation. He is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and the American Physical Society, and is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Nuclear Society. He received his B.S. in science from the University of
Chicago and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of
California.
CONSULTANTS
Valerie L. Putman, Consultant, is senior engineer, criticality
safety, for Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company. Her
experience and interests lie in nuclear criticality safety and in accident
and incident investigation. Ms. Putman is a member of the American
Nuclear Society; its Nuclear Criticality Safety, Human Factors, and
Environment divisions; and its Professional Development Coordinating
Committee. She is also active in several American Nuclear Society ANS-
~ standards writing groups on criticality safety. Ms. Putman received her
B.S. in both applied physics and mathematics from the University of
Utah and her M.E. in mechanical engineering with nuclear emphasis
from the University of Idaho. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in nuclear
engineering through a joint program with Idaho State University and the
University of Idaho.
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Thomas A. Reilly, Consultant, is a technical adviser at the
Westinghouse Savannah River Company. Mr. Reilly has 25 years of
experience in the recovery of plutonium and uranium as implemented at
the separation plants at the Savannah River site. He is an expert in
criticality safety of various separation unit operations including
dissolution, ion exchange, evaporation, precipitation, and solvent
extraction. He has served as the criticality safety lead for assessments at
Oak Ridge and Rocky Flats and as a member of the Kaiser-Hill Nuclear
Criticality Safety Confirmation Team for the Rocky Flats Criticality
Safety Manual. Mr. Reilly is a member of the American Nuclear Society
Criticality Safety Division Program Committee and Criticality Safety
Standards Subcommittee ANS-~. He has a B.Ch.E. from Lehigh
University and an M.Ch.E. from the University of Delaware.
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