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Louis Harry Roddis, Jr.
Pages 180-183

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... to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. After serving on Joint Task Force I, which was conducting atomic weapons tests in the Bikini Atoll, he joined the group of naval officers that included Admiral (then Captain)
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... In 1967 Lou became chairman of the board of Pennsylvania Electric Company and a member of the GPU corporate staff. As director of nuclear activities, he was responsible for the development of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant of the Jersey Central Power and Light Company, the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant of the Metropolitan Edison Company, the first breeder reactor plant of Pennsylvania Electric, and the Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation plant.
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... He was a registered professional engineer in South Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia and a chartered engineer in the United Kingclom. He was president of the Atomic Industrial Forum from 1962 to 1964 and was elected president of the American Nuclear Society in 1969.


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