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COMMITTEE ON ELECTROMETALLURGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DOE SPENT FUEL TREATMENT
GREGORY R. CHOPPIN,
Florida State University,
Chair
MICHAEL J. APTED,
QuantiSci, Inc.
PATRICIA A. BAISDEN,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
EDITH M. FLANIGEN,
UOP (retired)
CHARLES L. HUSSEY,
University of Mississippi
BERNARD KEAR,
Rutgers University
FLORIAN MANSFELD,
University of Southern California
L. EUGENE MCNEESE,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ROBERT A. OSTERYOUNG,
North Carolina State University
RALPH E. WHITE,
University of South Carolina
JOEL D. WILLIAMS,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Staff
CHRISTOPHER K. MURPHY,
Program Officer
MARIA P. JONES, Senior Project Assistant
DOUGLAS J. RABER, Director,
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY
LARRY E. OVERMAN,
University of California, Irvine,
Co-Chair
JOHN J. WISE,
Mobil Research & Development Company (retired),
Co-Chair
HANS C. ANDERSEN,
Stanford University
JOHN L. ANDERSON,
Carnegie Mellon University
DAVID C. BONNER,
Westlake Group
PHILIP H. BRODSKY,
Monsanto Company
GREGORY R. CHOPPIN,
Florida State University
BARBARA J. GARRISON,
Pennsylvania State University
LOUIS C. GLASGOW,
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
JOSEPH G. GORDON II,
IBM Almaden Research Center
ROBERT H. GRUBBS,
California Institute of Technology
KEITH E. GUBBINS,
North Carolina State University
VICTORIA F. HAYNES,
B.F. Goodrich Company
JIRI JONAS,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
GARY E. MCGRAW,
Eastman Chemical Company
GREGORY A. PETSKO,
Brandeis University
WAYNE H. PITCHER, JR.,
Genencor Corporation
PETER J. STANG,
University of Utah
JOAN S. VALENTINE,
University of California, Los Angeles
WILLIAM J. WARD III,
General Electric Company
JOHN T. YATES, JR.,
University of Pittsburgh
DOUGLAS J. RABER, Director
RUTH MCDIARMID, Senior Program Officer
CHRISTOPHER K. MURPHY, Program Officer
SYBIL A. PAIGE, Administrative Associate
MARIA P. JONES, Senior Project Assistant
DAVID GRANNIS, Project Assistant
COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS
ROBERT J. HERMANN,
United Technologies Corporation,
Co-Chair
W. CARL LINEBERGER,
University of Colorado,
Co-Chair
PETER M. BANKS,
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
WILLIAM BROWDER,
Princeton University
LAWRENCE D. BROWN,
University of Pennsylvania
RONALD G. DOUGLAS,
Texas A&M University
JOHN E. ESTES,
University of California at Santa Barbara
MARTHA P. HAYNES,
Cornell University
L. LOUIS HEGEDUS,
Elf Atochem North America, Inc.
JOHN E. HOPCROFT,
Cornell University
CAROL M. JANTZEN,
Savannah River Technology Center
PAUL G. KAMINSKI,
Technovation, Inc.
KENNETH H. KELLER,
University of Minnesota
KENNETH I. KELLERMANN,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
MARGARET G. KIVELSON,
University of California at Los Angeles
DANIEL KLEPPNER,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
JOHN KREICK,
Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company
MARSHA I. LESTER,
University of Pennsylvania
NICHOLAS P. SAMIOS,
Brookhaven National Laboratory
CHANG-LIN TIEN,
University of California at Berkeley
NORMAN METZGER, Executive Director
Acknowledgment of Reviewers
This report has been reviewed by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council's (NRC's) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the NRC in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The content of the review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report:
Robert Connick, University of California, Berkeley,
Harold Forsen, Bechtel Corporation (retired),
Norman Hackerman, The Robert A. Welch Foundation,
Royce Murray, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
Thomas Pigford, University of California, Berkeley, and
Raymond Wymer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (retired).
Although the individuals listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of this report rests solely with the authoring committee and the NRC.
