Nuclear Engineering and Radiological S c i e n c e s

NERS

University of MichiganCollege of Engineering

November 2-4, 2008

Michigan MeMorial Phoenix energy institute

The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences would like to thank the following organizations for their generous support

of the NERS@50 Anniversary Symposium Celebration

College of Engineering andMedia and Marketing

Welcome to our 50th Anniversary!1958-2008

Schedule of Events(All activities take place in the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library unless noted otherwise)

Sunday, 11/2/08 6:00-8:00pm Welcome Reception/Early Registration Chesebrough Lobby, Chrysler Center

Student Poster Display Gallery –Duderstadt Center

Monday, 11/3/08 Morning Session 7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast

Registration

8:30-8:40 Welcome

Introduction of Keynote Speaker

8:40-9:30 Dr. David Kay, Senior Research Fellow

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, Arlington, Virginia

Rethinking the non-proliferation requirements for the nuclear renaissance

9:30-9:45 Bill Martin, NERS Department Chair

NERS Department: Past, Present and Future

9:45-10:15 Chairs Panel

Former Dept chairs talk about the department and significant/interesting events during their tenures

10:15-10:30 BREAK

10:30-10:45 Sidney Yip, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nuclear Engineering Then and Now – Reflect, Rejoice, and Reload

10:45-11:00 John Engdahl, Donald V. Fites Chair of Engineering

College of Engineering and Technology, Bradley University

The Evolution of Gamma Imaging Technology for Nuclear Medicine

11:00-11:10 John Kelly, Sandia National Laboratories

Innovative Applications of Nuclear Power

11:10-11:20 Todd Palmer, Oregon State University

Deterministic Transport for Radiation Detection Problems – Monte Carlo Isn’t the Only Game in Town

11:20-11:30 Jim Rathkopf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Memories of the 80’s

11:30am-1:00pm LUNCH

Monday, 11/3/08 Afternoon Session 1:00-1:45 Alumni Panel

Alum from each decade – personal recollections and pictures are encouraged

1:45-2:00 Jim Fici, Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Personal Thoughts and Reflections – NERS Years Ago and The Bright Future Ahead

2:00-2:15 John Luginsland, NumerEx

NERS Plasma Physics in the Last 20 Years

2:15-2:25 Tom Mehlhorn, Sandia National Laboratories

NERS, Sandia, and me – 30 years of learning and research

2:25-2:35 Jacob Trombka, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

X-Ray, Gamma Ray and Neutron Remote and In-Situ Exploration of the Solar System

2:35-2:45 Siaka Yusuf, The Dow Chemical Company

Industrial Research Measurement Problem Solving Using Neutron Activation Analysis

3:00-5:30 Student Poster Display Gallery - Duderstadt Center

4:00-5:30 Laboratory Tours See schedule

6:30-11:00 Social Hour and Banquet Michigan League

Radiation image of the 0.724 and 0.756 meV gamma Rays of ZR-95.

Radiation image of the 1.173 and 1.332 meV gamma Rays of Co-60.

Tuesday, 11/4/08 Morning Session

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 Todd Allen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recollections on Graduate School at Michigan and Advice for Those to Come

8:45-9:00 Sidney Karin, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California-San Diego

Reflections

9:00-9:15 John Valentine, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Musings of a Measurements Graduate

9:15-9:25 Forrest Brown, Los Alamos National Laboratory

NERS and the National Laboratories – Transport Methods

9:25-9:35 Paul Rockett, Sandia National Laboratories

TBA

9:35-10:20 Futures Panel

A panel of alumni will discuss the nuclear “renaissance” and its implications for NERS.

10:20-10:35 BREAK

10:35-10:45 Donald Hall, Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute

The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute: A Unique National Resource

10:45-10:55 George Baldwin, Sandia National Laboratories

International Nuclear Safeguards at Sandia National Laboratories

10:55-11:05 Donald Spong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Magnetic Fusion Energy Research, 2008 and beyond

11:05-11:15 Tom Sutton, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

The MC21 Monte Carlo Transport Code

11:15-11:30 Final Remarks

Tuesday, 11/4/08

12:00-1:30 Student/Alumni Luncheon Johnson Rooms/LEC

Schedule for Tours of the NERS Research LaboratoriesMonday, November 3

There will be 3 groups for the laboratory tours. Based on the labs that you would like to see, select a group. Lab tours will leave the Gallery in the Duderstadt Center to walk or go by van at 4:00 pm.

Group A – Laboratories located in the NAME Bldg. and Cooley Bldg.4:00 Board vans to NAME Bldg.4:10 Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory (Was)

Neutron Science Laboratory (Hartman)Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory (Gilgenbach)

4:40 Board van to return to Cooley Bldg.4:50 Arrive at Cooley Bldg.4:50 High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory (Was)

Position-Sensing Radiation Detection Laboratory (He) Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory (Kearfott) Detection for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Laboratory (Pozzi) Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory (Foster) 5:40 Adjourn for Banquet at the Michigan League (6:30pm)

Group B – Laboratories located in the PML, Gerstacker Bldg. and NAME Bldg. Walk to PML 4:10 Irradiated Materials and Testing Laboratory (Was) Walk to Gerstacker Bldg. High Intensity Laser Laboratory (Krushelnick) 4:40 Walk to Cooley 4:50 Board van to NAME Bldg.

5:00 Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory (Was) Neutron Science Laboratory (Hartman)

Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory (Gilgenbach) 5:30 Board van to Cooley Bldg. 5:40 Adjourn for Banquet at Michigan League (6:30pm)

Group C – Laboratories located in the Cooley Bldg., PML and Gerstacker Bldg. Walk to Cooley Bldg. 4:10 Arrive at Cooley Bldg. 4:10-4:25 High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory (Was) Position-Sensing Radiation Detection Laboratory (He) Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory (Kearfott) Detection for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Laboratory (Pozzi) Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory (Foster) 5:00 Walk to PML Irradiated Materials and Testing Laboratory (Was) 5:15 Walk to Gerstacker Bldg. High Intensity Laser Laboratory (Krushelnick) 5:30 Walk to Cooley 5:40 Adjourn for Banquet at Michigan League (6:30pm)

Dr. David Kay, Senior Research FellowPotomac Institute for Policy Studies

Arlington, VAhttp://www.potomacinstitute.org/aboutus/staff/kay.htm

“Rethinking the Non-proliferation Requirements for a Nuclear Renaissance”

Monday, November 3, 20088:30 AM

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library1000 Beal Avenue

If a worldwide nuclear renaissance of nuclear generated electricity is to in fact occur, the nuclear enterprise – in all its compo-nents – must meet at least three requirements:

A very high standard of operational safety regardless of • where the nuclear reactors are located;

Demonstrable economies in construction and operation of all• components of the nuclear fuel cycle;

At the least not contribute to the possibilities of nuclear proliferation,• and preferably be highly resistant to nuclear proliferation.

This talk will address the third of these requirements: What are the non-proliferation requirements for a nuclear renaissance? The non-proliferation system that was designed for the first age of nuclear power met the needs, as foreseen in the early 1960’s. Compared to many efforts to foresee where technology and national competition will lead, the first efforts at non-proliferation were remarkable achievements. But technologies and the pressures toward proliferation have changed. This talk lays out what these changes are and the requirements for an effective non-proliferation system to undergird a new age of nuclear power growth.

NAME CO-AUTHORS TITLE

Abdul-Jabbar, Najeb Y. Boucher, J. Dolan Radiation Shielding Design for Aircraft CrewAmbers, Scott M. Flaska, S.A. Pozzi Analytical Description of Pulses Measured with an Organic

Liquid Scintillator for Pulse Shape

Ampornrat, Pantip Y. Chen, G. Was, L. Wang Microstructure of Oxide Scales Formed on Alloy HCM12A in Supercritical Water

Anderson, Stephen Event Classification in 3D Position Sensitive Semiconductor Detectors

Beauvais, Zachary K. Thompson Evaluation of Total Effective Dose to Certain Environmentally Placed Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials Using Residual Radioactivity (RESRAD) Code

Campbell, Anne Z. Jiao, R. Zhou, G. S. Was Stage Design for In-Situ Proton Irradiation Induced Creep Experi-ments

Hubble, Aimee B. Yee, E. Gillman, J. Foster Research Activities at the Plasma Science and Technology Laboratory

Davidson, Greg E. Larsen Sweepless Time-Dependent Transport Calculations using the Stag-gered Block Jacobi Method

Fowler Guzzardo, Tyler Sensitivity Study of Electron Dose Distributions in Inhomogeneous Water

Fynan, Douglas F. Rahman, John Haddad Gamma Irradiation for the Disinfection of Municipal Wastewater

Gomez, Matt Michigan Accelerator for Inductive Z-pinch Experiments (MAIZE)

Haas, Jason J. Lee Equilibrium TRU Management Scheme for Diverse Fuel Cycle Analysis

Haddad, John F. Rahman, T. Briley, A. Fisher The Use of Weapon-Grade Plutonium as a MOX Fuel in the AP-1000 Reactor

Student Research PostersGallery - Duderstadt Center

Hamilton, Ceris M. Hartman, H. Wu, T. Udovic, J. Rush, A. Gross, J. Vajo, T. Baumann

A Study of the Effects of Nanoconfinement on the Dynamical Properties of Lithium Borohydride Using Neutron Scattering Techniques

Harvey, John E. Thomas, K. Kearfott Precision, Accuracy, and Optimal Numbers of Trials for Calibration of Individual Thermoluminescent Dosimeters (TLDs) Through Glow Curve Peak and Region of Interest Analysis

Harvey, John E. Thomas, K. Kearfott Glow Curve Peak Fading Properties of Thermoluminescent Dosimeters (TLDs)

Hou, Jason B. Collins, V. Seker, T. Downar

Comparison of TRU Burning Capabilities of SFR and RBWR

Jabaay, Dan V. Seker, Y. Xu, T. Downar Analysis of High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors with PARCS/AGREE

Jiang, Hao F. Becchetti, A. Villano, M. Ojaruega, A. Rose, R. Ray-mond, R. Torres-Isea, J. Kolata, A. Roberts

Quantitative Low-Energy Ion Beam Profile Measurement with Gafchromic Film

Johnson, Seth E. Sunny Non-Proliferation Border Security

Johnson, Seth T. Urbatsch Opacity Distribution Functions in Implicit Monte Carlo

Joshi-Kaye, Sonal On behalf of Dr. He’s Research Group

Polaris Project

Kaye, Willy N. Bennett, C. Wahl, Z. He Gamma-ray Source Location Through Attenuation

Kochunas, Brendan M. Hursin, T. Downar, V. Seker

DeCART: Deterministic Core Analysis Based on Ray Tracing

Lehnert, Adrienne Z. Whetstone, T. Zak, K. Kearfott

Preliminary Simulations in the Use of Fast Neutrons to Detect Explosives

Li, Weixing L. Wang, K. Sun, Q. Wei, Y. Chen, R. Ewing

The nature of fission track in apatite: on its structure and forma-tion

Maestas, Ben P.R. Stanfield, S.D. Clarke, M. Flaska, S.A. Pozzi

The iFIND Mobile Standoff Radiation Detection System: A Pix-elated Two Plane Compton Imaging Detector with Active Coded Aperture Array Capability

McGuffey, Chris T. Matsuoka, M. Levin, S. Bulanov, V. Chvykov, G. Kalintchenko, P. Rousseau, V. Yanovsky, A. Zigler, A. Maksimchuk, and K. Krushelnick

Guiding and Ionization Blueshift in Ablative Capillary Waveguide Accelerators

Miller, Eric M. Flaska, S.D. Clarke, S.A. Pozzi, P. Peerani

Monte Carlo Simulation of the Full Neutron Multiplicity Distribution Measured with a Passive Counter for PuO2

Moran, Tiberius D. Zaide Theoretical and Numerical Developments in Turbulent Radiative Hydrodynamics

Newton, J. P. J. Laird, K. Thompson, Z. Beau-vaiz, Z. Whetstone, K. Kearfott

Mapping of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials and Indoor Radon Gas Concentrations with Population and Land Type in Several North Central Mountain States

Nowicki, Suzanne S. Anderson, Z. He, K. Shah, L. Cirignano, H. Kim

Investigation of Polarization Effect in Thallium Bromide Detectors

Pavenayotin, Niravun Y. Chen, L. Wang Ion Implantation of Gold Nanoparticles in Sulfide Minerals

Penisten, Janelle Z. Jiao, Gary S. Was Radiation-Induced Segregation in Candidate Alloys for the Advanced Burner Reactor

Perez-Bergquist, Alejandro K. Sun, Y. Zhang, L. Wang Thermally-Induced GaSb Core-Shell Nanofibers: Evidence of Nanoscale Phase Instability

Thompson, K. H. D. Cooper, A. Lehnert, J. Har- vey, J. Newton, K. Kearfott

Calibration of a Charcoal Canister-Based Radon Screening System Using a Small Radon Chamber

Thrall, Crystal C. Wahl Performance of Five-or-More-Pixel Event Sequence Reconstruction for 3-D Semiconductor Gamma-Ray-Imaging Spectrometers

Wang, Weiyi MLEM Deconvolution in Spatial and Combined Spatial-Energy Domains for Combined Single-, Two-, Three-, and Four-Interaction Events

Ward, Andrew B. Collins, Y. Xu, T. Downar Modeling of the Argentina Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor, ATUCHA-II

Wei, Qiangmin K. Li, W. Lu, L. Wang Self-assembly of ordered nanopatterns via ion beam irradiations

West, Elaine IGSCC Mitigation in Supercritical Water

Whetstone, Zachary A.Lehnert, T. Zak, K. Kearfott Preliminary shielding design for a D-T neutron generator

Wolters, Emily E. Larsen, W. Martin A Hybrid Monte Carlo-S2 Method for Preserving Transport Ef-fects in Interface Problems

Xu, Yunlin T. Downar, V. Seker, A. Ward, B. Collins

PARCS: An Advanced Reactor Core Simulator

Zak, Tomasz A. L. Lehnert, Z. D. Whetstone, K. J. Kearfott

Shadow Shield Development for a Liquid Scintillator Neutron Detector

Zhu, Yanbo M. Heath, M. Claus Sodium Cooled Fast Reactors for the Disposal of Higher Actinides and Weapons Grade Plutonium

Then and Now - A Few NERS@50 Speakers

Todd Allen University of Wisconsin-Madison

Daniela Atanasovski DTE Energy

George Baldwin Sandia National Laboratories

Ronald Berliner Instrumentation Associates

John Booske University of Wisconsin-Madison

Robert Borcherts Retired

Jeffrey Bradfute Westinghouse Electric Company

Forrest Brown Los Alamos National Laboratory

Paul Cook Wolverine Sign Works

Moni Dey Deytec, Inc.

Jie Du

John Engdahl Bradley University

Jim Fici Westinghouse Electric Company

Patrick Finnegan

David Gilliam National Institute of Science and Tech.

Kingsley Graham Retired

Rachel Gunnett Advent Engineering

Donald Hall Armed Forces Radiobiology Res. Institute

Wei Ji Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Valentin Jordanov

Reza Kamaly N & C LLC

Sidney Karin San Diego Supercomputing Center

John Kelly Sandia National Laboratories

Juan Carlo Lopez Boeing

John Luginsland NumerEx

Tom Mehlhorn Sandia National Laboratories

Thomas Merchant St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Michel Mirkovitch Lockleed-Martin Space Systems

Todd Palmer Oregon State University

Richard Polich Energy Options & Solutions

Shikha Prasad ERIN Engineering and Research

William Price Theradex

Jim Rathkopf Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Paul Rockett Sandia National Laboratories

Robert Rulko CNSC

Virinder Sandhu Lockheed Martin - KAPL

Ronnie Shepherd Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Donald Spong Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Allison Stolle Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Thomas Sutton Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory

Jacob Trombka NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

John Valentine Science Applications International Corp.

Brian Wagner Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Mary Beth Ward Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Sam Werner National Institute of Science and Technology

Sidney Yip Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Out-of-Town Alumni Attendees

A. Ziya AkcasuScott AmbersPantip AmpornratMichael AtzmonMargaret BaconEric BakerKaushik BanerjeePaul BartonCameron BatesRichard BeckTroy BeckerAnn BellAlex BielajewBrandon BlackburnYvan BoucherMegan BrownAnne CampbellLiu (Will) ChangyuanJesse CheathamYanbin ChenShaun ClarkeBenjamin CollinsJeremy ConlinDonna ConstantPaul CummingsGregory DavidsonPam DerryYuni DewarajaJennifer Dolan

Burcin DonmezThomas DownarJames DuderstadtMichaela EddyJohn-Michael FischerMarek FlaskaRon FlemingJohn FosterDavid FrenchRon GilgenbachErci GillmanMatt GomezPeggy Jo GramerGeoffrey GreeningDouglas HakeHiruy HadguCeris HamiltonMichael HartmanJohn HarveyJohn HayesZhong HeBrad HoffAdam HoffmanAimee HubbleAlexander HunterDaniel JabaayHao JiangCaroline JoaquinSeth Johnson

Sonal JoshiWilly KayeKimberlee KearfottJae Cheon KimBrian KitchenGlenn KnollKarl KrushelnickJustin LamyEdward LarsenY. Y. LauJohn LeeAdrienne LehnertDiana LiWeixing LiJu LiuangWilliam MartinKathryn MasiEric MillerTiberius Moran-LopezMaria Eugenia Morell GonzalezKyeoung OhBrock PalenAndrew PattonNiravun PavenayotinJanelle PenistenScott PfefferJane PolingSara PozziVolkan Seker

University of Michigan AttendeesBradley SommersEva SunnyAlexander ThomasElizabeth ThomasShannon ThomasKaylie ThompsonCrystal ThrallAndrew TillNick TouranScott WagnerWilliam WalshLumin WangAndrew WardGary WasBrandon WeatherfordDavid WeheMatthew WeisElaine WestScott WildermanEmily WoltersHao YangJinan YangBenjamin YeePeng ZhangJacob ZierOwen Zinaman

The Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Mich-igan is the oldest degree program and the second oldest department of its type in the coun-try. In the late 1940s the Department of Aeronautical Engineering organized a graduate program for Air Force officers who came to the University for training. One of the courses offered was a course that began with introductory material in neutron-nuclear physics and in cluded some material on reactor physics, such as diffusion theory and elementary criticali-ty calculations. The course was first held on a classified basis, and was organized and taught by Larry Rauch and Myron Nichols.

In the early 1950s, when the material became available on an unclas-sified basis, it was decided to offer the course on a college-wide basis. Developing interest in nuclear energy led to the introduction of sev-eral additional courses including a Radiation Measurements course, taught in Electrical Engineering (Kerr), a course on Interaction of Ra-diation with Matter, taught in Electrical Engineering (Gomberg), and a course on Industrial Applications of Radiation taught in Chemical Engineering (Brownell).

Interest in the area grew to the point that an interdepartmental committee was appointed by the Dean of Engineering in 1952 to administer a graduate program in Nuclear Engineering. It was decided in the early 1950s to construct a research reactor, as part of the Michigan Memo-rial Phoenix Project (MMPP) established as a World War II memorial in 1948. The existence on campus of a program with the responsibility for developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy attracted additional attention and a significant number of graduate students to the Nuclear Engineering program. The Ford Nuclear Reactor (FNR), built with a $1 million grant from the Ford Motor Company, reached initial criticality in 1957 and was the third university campus reactor constructed in the United States.

A Short Departmental History

1957 - Ford Nuclear Reactor criticality reached

1958 - Department of Nuclear Engineering established

1965 - Undergraduate program in Nuclear Engineering estab-lished

1978 - Departmental and faculty offices move to Cooley Building

1977 - Major laboratories not located in PML transferred to shielded bays in Naval Archi-tecture and Marine Engineering Building

1980 - Undergraduate program in Engineering Physics reinsti-tuted

1995 - Name change to Depart-ment of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

2003 - Ford Nuclear Reactor shut down for decommissioning

The first Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering was awarded in 1954. The first three Ph.D. degrees (to M. Iriarte, T. Kammash, and F. Ham-mitt) were awarded at the spring commencement in 1958. By 1958 about 110 graduate students were enrolled, and about eight faculty members were associated with the program on at least a part-time basis: Gomberg, Kerr, King, Zweifel, E. Martin, Osborn, Brownell, and West.

In early 1958 the Engineering College and the University administration approved the formation of a Department of Nuclear Engineering, and it came into being officially on July 1, 1958. Henry Gomberg was appointed the inaugural Depart-ment Chairman.

The first student chapter of the American Nuclear Society was organized at the University of Michigan, and was officially chartered in December 1955. The Department initially offered only a graduate program, with degrees at the Masters, profes-sional, and doctoral levels. It was a national leader in the es-tablishment of Ph.D. programs in Nuclear Engineering and in Nuclear Science. In 1959, a tradition of long standing was begun by the administration of a “preliminary” examination for the incoming class of doctoral candidates (including Albrecht, Borcherts, Carpenter, Ferziger,

Knoll, Latta, Olhoeft, Plummer, Pluta, and Stevens).

In the Fall of 1965, the undergraduate program in Nuclear En-gineering was established. The first B.S. degrees were awarded two years later. A second undergraduate program, in Engineer-ing Physics, formerly Science Engineering, was reinstituted in 1980 under the auspices of the Department of Nuclear Engineering. In the 1980s, teaching and research programs of the Department began to diversify significantly outside the traditional nuclear engineering areas, including plasma physics, materials science, radiation measurements, radiological health, and medical physics. In recognition of the program diversifi-cation, the Departmental name was changed in 1995 to the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences.

Throughout its his-tory, the Department has been housed on North Campus, close to the Phoenix Memo-rial Laboratory (PML) and the FNR. Initially, the Departmental of-fice was located in the Automotive Labora-tory, with faculty of-fices and laboratories also housed in the PML and the Fluids Laboratory (now G. G. Brown Laboratory). A major relocation took place in 1978 with the move of the Departmental office and most faculty offices to the Cooley Building. At the same time, major laboratories not located in the PML were transferred to the large shielded bays that formerly housed the Physics Department cyclotrons.

The Departmental research laboratories in the former cyclotron

bays evolved into the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory and the Plasma, Pulsed Power and Microwave Laboratory, occupying a large part of the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) Building. As a major University-wide facility, the FNR operated successfully between 1957 and 2003, when it was shut down for decommissioning. The Neutron Science Laboratory, featuring a D-T neutron gen-

erator with associated shielding facilities, was added recently to the Departmental facilities in the NAME Building. NERS faculty members also play leadership roles in a number of University facilities, including the Center for Ul-trafast Optical Sciences (CUOS) and the Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory (EMAL).

In addition to the current faculty, a number of individuals served on the departmental faculty. They include George West (died in 1970), Louis Hamilton (died in 1973), Lloyd Brownell (died in 1976), Edward A. Martin (died in 1985), Richard K. Osborn (died in 1987), Chihiro Kikuchi (died in 1988), Fred Hammitt (died in 1989), Milton Edlund (died in 1993), Henry Gomberg (died in 1995), George Summerfield (died in 1996), Fred Shure (died in 2000), John King (died in 2007), Geza Gyo-rey (retired from General Electric Company), Paul Zweifel (now at Virginia Tech), Harvey Graves (retired), Jack Carpenter (now at Argonne National Laboratory), David Bach (semi-retired at California State University, Northridge), M. M. R. Williams (now at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine), Mary Brake (now at Eastern Michigan University), Rodney Ewing (now with the Geology Department with a joint position in NERS), and Donald Umstadter (now at the University of Nebraska). The department also has 4 adjunct faculty and 5 research scientists contributing to various instructional and research programs.

The Department has been headed by seven Chairs over its history: Henry Gomberg (1958-1961), William Kerr (1961-1974), John King (1974-1979), Glenn Knoll (1979-90), William Martin (1990-94, 2004-present), Gary Was (1994-1999), and John Lee (1999-2004). James Duderstadt, a mem-ber of the Departmental faculty, served as Dean of Engineering (1981-1986), Provost (1986-1988), and President (1988-1996).

In the half century of its history, the Department has awarded 726 B.S., 669 M.S., 35 MEng, 9 Professional Nuclear Engineer, and 492 Ph.D. degrees. In addition, the Department served as the home department for 189 B.S. graduates in Engineering Physics and Science Engineering. During the Fall 2008 semes-ter, the Department has a total enrollment of 145 undergradu-

ates, including 25 Engi-neering Physics students, and 102 graduate stu-dents. The Department is consistently ranked first or second among all Nuclear degree programs in national academic surveys, including recent U. S. News and World Report surveys, both at the

undergraduate and graduate levels. As one indicator of excel-lence, students from the Department have won the Mark Mills Award of the American Nuclear Society 12 times out of the 49 selections that have been made to date.

Current Department Faculty(with year of initial appointment)1953 Professor Emeritus William Kerr1958 Professor Emeritus Terry Kammash1960 Professor Emeritus Dietrich H. Vincent1962 Professor Emeritus Glenn F. Knoll1963 Professor Emeritus A. Ziya Akcasu1969 Professor and President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt1974 Professor John C. Lee1977 Professor William R. Martin1980 Professor Ronald M. Gilgenbach1980 Professor Gary S. Was1986 Professor Edward W. Larsen1986 Professor David K. Wehe1987 Professor Michael Atzmon1989 Professor Ronald F. Fleming1990 Professor James P. Holloway1992 Professor Yue Ying Lau 1993 Professor Kimberlee J. Kearfott 1994 Professor Zhong He 1997 Professor Alex F. Bielajew 1997 Professor Lumin Wang 2006 Associate Professor John Foster 2006 Professor Karl M. Krushelnick 2007 Assistant Professor Michael Hartman2007 Associate Professor Sara Pozzi 2008 Professor Thomas J. Downar 2008 Assistant Professor Alexander Thomas

Department Research FacultyAssistant Research Scientist Marek FlaskaAssistant Research Scientist Mark HammigAssistant Research Scientist Zhijie JiaoAssistant Research Scientist Volkan SekerAssistant Research Scientist Sebastien Teysseyre (New position at INL October 2008)Assistant Research Scientist Feng Zhang

Adjunct FacultyAdjunct Assistant Professor Jeremy BusbyAdjunct Professor Forrest BrownAdjunct Professor Frederick W. BuckmanAdjunct Professor Michael J. FlynnAdjunct Professor Mitchell M. GoodsittAdjunct Professor Randall K. Ten HakenAdjunct Professor Ruth Weiner

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November 2-4, 2008