Experience

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  Ceramic Tubular Products LLC

  • Founder, Part Owner, VP Business Development

    • Jan 2016 - Present

    CTP develops and markets advanced ceramic cladding for nuclear power plant fuel cladding, with passive safety, high burnup and additional power uprate capability. Recently, we have developed a new application of our multilayered ceramic tubing for use in Receiver Assemblies of Concentrated Solar Power plants operating with molten chloride salt at 700 C TH, and as piping for supercricital CO2 Brayton cycle piping at up to 900C. Initial testing is underway.

  • part owner, Vice President - Business Development

    • Jan 2016 - Present

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  Gamma Engineering Corporation

  • Rockville, Maryland

  • Founder and President

    • 1986 - 2005
    • Rockville, Maryland

    Consulted on advanced nuclear technology, including burning of US and Russian excess plutonium as MOX fuel in CANDU reactors, and with KAERI (Korea) on conceptual design and cost estimate of a DUPIC facility to burn LWR spent fuel in CANDU reactors without wet reprocessing. With NRC SBIR grant,...

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  US Atomic Energy COmmission

  • Germantown Maryland

  • Chief, LMFBR Facilities, Director, Reactor Technology Branch

    • 1974 - 1984
    • Germantown Maryland

    Managed full sized testing of sodium cooled reactor components including pumps, valves, steam generators. Advisor to Kemeny COmmission investigating accident at TMI, Planned and initiated TMI accident research program, including initial examination of damaged core. Planned and oversee the Citiz...

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  U.S. Atomic Energy COmmission, Naval Reactors

  • Washington DC

  • PWR Project Office, Core Design, Core Manufacture, B&W Project Officeer

    • 1957 - 1974
    • Washington DC

    Covered the early operation of Shippingport, the first refueling of Shippingport, design stages of PWR Core 2, and Light Water Breeder Reactor (thorium - U233 core), design of aircraft carrier reactor cores, management of core manufacturing, etc.