Dr. Manfred Puls Fuel Material BIOGRAPHY Manfred Puls obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Physics (1964) and a Masters of Applied Science degree in Physics (1965) both from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently Puls obtained a PhD degree in Physics (1970) from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Both post-graduate…
Dr. Malcolm Griffiths Fuel Material BIOGRAPHY Dr. Malcolm Griffiths obtained his PhD in Physical Metallurgy from the University of Birmingham in 1981. After a three-year post-doctoral term working on radiation damage in Ti-alloys he joined AECL at the Chalk River Laboratories in 1984. He has worked on various aspects of materials performance in nuclear reactor…
Dr. Wilfried Rühle has been working in nuclear power industry for about 35 years. His degree as Ph.D. in chemistry, physical chemistry and radiation biology he has got from the faculty of natural sciences at Heidelberg University, Germany. His thesis on a subarea of nuclear fuel reprocessing he has made
Dr Robert Cowan, retired Chief Technologist of General Electric’s Nuclear Energy Division, with over 40 years of Boiling Water Reactor chemistry, corrosion, structural material and fuel material experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
At GE he headed the development activities which qualified and commercialized various new technologies for boiling water reactor (BWR) application including: IGSCC resistant grades of stainless steel, hydrogen water chemistry, zinc injection (utilizing both natural and isotopically depleted zinc), noble metal technology and in-reactor ECP monitoring.
Dr. Samson Hettiarachchi has 33 years of experience as a college lecturer, researcher, innovator and a technologist. He has held a variety of technical positions at GE Nuclear Energy as Chief Engineer/Physical Sciences, Chief Technologist/Chemistry, Engineering Fellow and Principal Engineer prior to his retirement from GE in February 2011. Prior to joining GE, he held the position of Electrochemist/Senior Electrochemist at SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) and the position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Mr. François Cattant graduated in chemical engineering in 1974 and joined Electricity of France (EDF) in 1975 as chemist engineer at the chemical department of the corporate laboratories (Plants Operation Division). At that time, he was involved in power plants water and steam
Dr. Peter Scott received his B.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Sheffield in England in 1965 and then his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the same university in 1968. He spent two years as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Chemistry of the National Research Council of Canada before starting his career in the nuclear industry in 1971 in the Materials Development Division at the Harwell Laboratory of the UKAEA.
Dr. Ulf Ilg received his first degree as “Diplom-Ingenieur” in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University Karlsruhe (today KIT),
Dr. Pierre Combrade received his first degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, in 1967 and earned
Dr. Peter Ford received his bachelors and doctoral degrees from Cambridge University (UK) and a masters degree from RPI (USA),