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Appendix E
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Biographical Sketches of
Committee Members
Michael Corradini, Chair, is a professor i n the Department of
Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and asso-
ciate dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. Corradini's research focus
is nuclear engineering and multiphase flow with specific interests that
include light-water reactor safety, fusion reactor design and safety,
waste management and disposal, vapor explosions research and
molten core concrete interaction research, and energy policy analysis.
He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the
American Society of Engineering Education, and the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, and is a fellow of the American Nuclear
Society. Dr. Corradini has received numerous awards including the
National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigators Award,
the American Nuclear Society reactor safety best paper award, and the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, campus teaching award. He is the
author of more than 100 technical papers and has served on various
technical review committees, including the research review panel of
the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the direct heating review
group. He is currently a member of the National Research Council's
Electric Power/Energy Systems Engineering Peer Committee and chair
of the Frontiers of Engineering Organizing Committee. Dr. Corradini
was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998. He
received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Marquette University
and his M.S. and Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
David Campbell worked as a chemist with the Chemical
Technology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory until his retire-
ment in 1991 and has since consulted on nuclear fuel and radioactive
waste processing. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Energy
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High Level Waste Tanks Technical Advisory Panel and the subpanel on
Hanford waste pretreatment. His research interests include radiochem-
ical processing and separations chemistry. He is a member of the
American Chemical Society and the American Nuclear Society, which
honored him with the Special Award for advancements in Nuclear
Technology in response to Three Mile Island. Other awards include the
Glenn T. Seaborg Actinide Separations Award. He served on the
National Research Council's Committee on the Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory High-Level Waste
AlternativeTreatments. He received his B.A. in mathematics and chem-
istry from the University of Kansas City (Missouri) and his Ph.D. in phys-
ical chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Micheline Draye is a professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de
Chimie de Paris. She conducts research in the Laboratory of
Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (UMR CNRS 7575) where
she is a member of the Separation Processes and Radiochemistry
Group. Dr. Draye's research interests include the development of new
separation processes for pollution prevention and remediation, the
design of efficient extraction systems with high selectivity for hazardous
ions and the investigation of the effect of radiolysis on organic ligands
and ion-exchange resins. Her awards include the 1991 prize of the
French Societv of Nuclear Enerav a fellowship with the Commissariat
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a l tnergie Atomique and a fellowship with compagnie cenerale des
Matieres Nucleaires, or COG EMA. Dr. Draye worked for two years as
visiting scientist in the Nuclear Engineering Department of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after having received her Ph.D.
i n analytical chemistry from the U n iversity of Lyon, France.
Charles Drummond, 111 is a professor i n the Department of
Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. His
research is concerned primarily with the structure and properties of
amorphous solids or glasses the nature of the glassy state and the struc-
ture and crystallization of glasses and the vitrification of industrial and
governmental waste to produce salable products. Dr. Drummond is a
fel low of the American Ceramic Society, has been awarded its
Governor's Award for Emerging Technology, and is Director of the
Annual Conference on Glass Problems. He received his bachelor of
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ceramic engineering, bachelor of engineering physics, and degrees
M.S. in Ceramic Engineering from the Ohio State University and the
science master and Ph.D., in applied physics from Harvard University.
Peter Hayward is a sen for consu Itant with Eutech n ics Consu Iti ng,
Inc. Dr. Hayward has more than 18 years of research experience on
reactor safety issues and waste management with Atomic Energy of
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Canada Limited. He is a member of the Canadian Nuclear Society and
the American Ceramics Society and has authored or co-authored
numerous papers on nuclear waste glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramics,
and reactor safety issues. His current research interests include nuclear
and toxic waste immobilization, nuclear fuel-cladding-steam interac-
tions under reactor accident conditions, ceramic membranes, and
high-temperature mineral extraction processes. Dr. Hayward received
his B.Sc. in geology and chemistry from Bristol U niversity in the U nited
Kingdom and his Ph.D. in geochemistry and ceramic science from
Birmingham University in the United Kingdom.
Linn Hobbs is professor of Materials Science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and was the inaugural holder of the John F.
Elliott chair there. His research activities center on characterization,
using electron microscopy and diffraction methods, of atomic and
extended defect structures of inorganic nonmetals introduced by radia-
tion or chemically driven compositional change and atomic-scale mod-
eling of amorphized structures using topological approaches. He is a
former president of the Microscopy Society of America, a former coun-
ci lor of the Materials Research Society, a fel low of the American
Ceramic Society, and he chairs the British Marshall Scholarship pro-
gram's North-Eastern Regional Selection Committee. Dr. Hobbs
received a B.Sc. degree in materials science from Northwestern
University and the D.Phil. degree in science of materials from Oxford
U niversity as a Marshal I scholar.
Edward Lahoda is an advisory engineer at the Westinghouse Electric
Science and Technology Department. He has more than 25 years of
experience in process analysis, development, design, and field support.
He has extensive background in the manufacture of uranium-based
fuels and operation of the waste treatment and other ancillary systems.
In the environmental area he was responsible for the technical devel-
opment and field startup of the Westinghouse soil washing and high-
temperature thermal Resorption technologies. He has chemical process
design experience in processing chemical warfare agents, nuclear
fuels, and high-and low-level nuclear wastes and in plasma processing
of wastes and plasma production of specialty materials. He has served
on committees at the Savannah River Site addressing overall operation
and test data validity of the Defense Waste Processing Facility, chaired
the In-Tank Precipitation Chemistry Review Panel, and was a member
of the In-Tank Precipitation Replacement Review Panel. He served as a
technical expert for the National Research Council Committee on
Alternative High-Level Waste Treatment at the Idaho National
Engineering and Environmental Laboratory. He is a member of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Dr. Lahoda received his B.S.,
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M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the University of
Pittsbu rich and h is M. B.A. from the U n iversitv of Pittsbu rgh.
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Robin Rogers is a professor of chemistry and director of the Center
for Green Manufacturing at the University of Alabama. Dr. Rogers'
research interests include green/sustainable separation science and
technology, aqueous biphasic systems, room temperature ionic liquids,
environmentally benign polymer resins, crystal engineering, and radio-
chemistry. He is a member of the American Chemical Society,
American Nuclear Society, American Crystallographic Association, and
Sigma Xi. Dr. Rogers is also the editor of the American Chemical
Society journal Crystal Growth and Design. Dr. Rogers received his B.S.
and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Alabama and reached the
rank of presidential research professor at Northern I l l inois U niversity.
Ben Sternberg is a professor and director of the Laboratory for
Advanced Subsurface Imaging at the University of Arizona. Dr.
Sternberg's research interests include high-resolution geophysical sur-
veys, instrumentation, data acquisition, data processing and interpreta-
tion, and subsurface imaging including image processing and pattern
recognition of geophysical signatures. He has 10 years of industry-relat-
ed experience prior to his academic appointment. Dr. Sternberg has
been elected president of the Near-Surface Geophysics Section of the
Society of Exploration Geophysics and was appointed chair of The
Technical Academic Review Group for the U.S. Department of Energy
to review geophysics projects. Dr. Sternberg also is serving on the
National Research Council's Committee on Seeing into the Earth. He
received his B.S. in physics and his M.S. and Ph.D. in geophysics from
the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Edwin L. Zebroski consults on decision analysis and risk manage-
ment in the nuclear and chemical industries and for several national
laboratories. Previously he led large-scale development efforts in mate-
rials, chemical processing, fuel cycle, and reactor design of commer-
cial and naval nuclear power systems. He has written more than 1 50
technical publications, including several patents and sections of six
books. He has served on panels for the National Research Council, the
Department of Energy, the Department of Interior, the National Science
Foundation, the former Commission on Engineering Education, and the
Committee on Prioritization and Decision Making in DOE-OST. Dr.
Zebroski is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, with a
B.S. in physics and chemistry from the University of Chicago, and a
Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
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