Fuel Material

Dr. Albert Machiels is a Senior Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute [EPRI].

Fuel Material

Dr. Ron Adamson retired from GE Nuclear Energy in 2000, where he was the manager of Materials Technology.

Mr. Friedrich Garzarolli retired from Framatome ANP in March 2002, where he has held various managerial and research positions, dealing with fuel rod performance analysis, planning and evaluation of irradiation tests, materials characterisation and evaluation of irradiation effects in materials. His degree as Diplom Ingenieur in metallurgy was obtained from the University of Leoben, Austria, in 1963.

Dr. Sheikh Tahir Mahmood retired from Global Nuclear Fuel in 2012 as a Senior Engineer/Technologist for Fuels Engineering at the Vallecitos Nuclear Center. Earlier he received Masters degrees in Physics and Nuclear Technology from abroad and doctorate

Fuel Material

After receiving a PhD in the UK in 1965, Dr. Coleman spent his working career at the Chalk River Laboratories of AECL. He worked on several aspects of zirconium metallurgy applied to the components of the CANDU reactor. He was involved in the development of CANLUB

Clément Lemaignan, born in 1949, graduated in material science from school of Mines, St Etienne, got his MS in metallurgy from MIT and his PhD from Polytechnicum of Grenoble. He worked during his entire carrier

Mr. Kenny Epperson, independent consultant, previously a Principal Engineer with Duke Energy, involved in fuel assembly thermal-hydraulic analysis, fuel performance evaluations, and plant support with fuel performance issues. Involved directly in four fuel product transitions for seven units as well as four first of a kind LTA programs for new fuel designs.

Fuel Material

Mr. Peter Rudling was a senior consulting scientist at Vattenfall, the largest Swedish power company. Earlier he has also been a Specialist of Fuel Materials at ABB Atom (now Westinghouse) and a Project Manager at EPRI.

Dr. Richard Collinghamretired from AREVA in 2004 where he was manager of Safety Analysis Engineering and Fuel Development. His responsibilities included Code Development, Fuel Development, nuclear fuel and reload design and LWR Plant Safety Analyses. In R&D,

Dr. Charles Patterson retired from Global Nuclear Fuel in 2008 as a Consulting Engineer for Fuel Engineering. During 44 years with GE Nuclear Energy/GNF, he was actively engaged in the development of fuel manufacturing processes, fuel materials, thermal-mechanical and fuel performance models and in the improvement of fuel reliability. This activity involved irradiation and hot cell Programs in Asia,