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Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 243-250
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His professional experience includes research and operations positions at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, the Electric Power Research Institute, and Bechtel. He was elected to National Academy of Engineering in 1976.
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His professional interests are in mineralogy and materials science, and his research has focused on radiation effects in complex ceramic materials and the long-term durability of radioactive waste forms. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, and the Mineralogical Society of America, and a member of Sigma Xi.
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Burns is The Henry Massman Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of the Energy Frontier Research Center, concurrent Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on the solid state and environmental chemistry of heavy metals, especially actinides including uranium, neptunium, and plutonium.
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Her work in these areas has addressed such topics as modeling radiation fluxes and nuclear reaction rates in geologic media for studies pertaining to the geochemistry of fission products and plutonium, interpreting geochemical and isotopic compositions as indicators of water-rock reactions and groundwater flow paths, characterizing legacy transuranic waste streams produced by past Los Alamos National Laboratory activities, and
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In 2008 she won the Wendell Weart Lifetime Achievement Award in nuclear waste management for more than three decades of outstanding contributions to nuclear waste management. She is a fellow, past president, and distinguished life member of the American Ceramic Society.
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Dr. Johnson won the Taylor Lecture Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University; the Ross Coffin Purdy Award for the best paper in ceramic literature, the Fulrath Award, the John Jeppson Award, and the Orton Lecture Award from the American Ceramic Society; and received the Industrial Ceramics 2000 prize from the Academy of Ceramics.
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the synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic molecular sieve materials and waste forms for the selection and storage of radiological isotopes; (2) the predictive modeling and synthesis of inorganic aluminosilicate and nonaluminosilicate crystalline zeolitic bulk phases and membranes for Separations and Catalysis of light gases or organic molecules; and (3)
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