 |
|
|
|
Nuclear Fuels Advisory Board
IBC has created a Nuclear Fuels Advisory Board to assist in developing and implementing a long term strategic plan to commercialize the nuclear fuel technology currently being developed by Purdue and Texas A&M Universities in partnership with IBC. | | | Dr. Alvin Solomon
Dr. Alvin Solomon, Professor Emeritus at Purdue University's School of Nuclear Engineering, was appointed to IBC's Nuclear Fuels Advisory Board in February 2009. He is a highly respected international authority on nuclear fuels and the leading international expert on high thermal conductivity uranium oxide / beryllium oxide (UO2 -- BeO) nuclear fuels specifically. His academic career includes undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Illinois followed by a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford University. After spending five years at Argonne National Laboratory on nuclear fuels research, Dr. Solomon joined the faculty of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University in 1974. Over the past 20 years Dr. Solomon has also been periodically involved in sabbatical research based in France.
Dr. Solomon is widely published in a range of highly respected peer-reviewed scientific journals where his work has been acknowledged as having important economic and safely implications for the future of the nuclear industry. His numerous achievements in nuclear materials developments and applications include being appointed a member of the American Nuclear Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, National Institute of Ceramic Engineers, National Association of Corrosion Engineers and being elected a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. In 1996 he was awarded "Best Paper of 1996" by the American Nuclear Society.
|
|
|
