The Second Annual Ohio State University Forum on Nuclear Power This Conference will focus on the needs, opportunities, and emerging technologies in Nuclear Power. From the need for a carbon-free energy source able to provide base-load power to medical treatments using radio-isotopes to new types of reactors and fuels, the future for the nuclear power industry has many opportunities. This forum will explore some of these opportunities and their impacts. Speakers Mike Childerson Mr. Childerson serves as the B&W mPower Design Engineering Manager for the nuclear island design team located in Lynchburg, Virginia. His team is responsible for the Nuclear Steam Supply System design and interfaces with the Bechtel Power engineering team responsible for the balance of plant design as well as all civil/structural design for the plant. Much of Mr. Childerson’s 30-year career with Babcock & Wilcox was spent at the Babcock & Wilcox Research and Development Division (later McDermott Technology, Inc.) in Alliance, Ohio. He was involved with nuclear thermal-hydraulic research and development programs associated with the power generation industry. These programs included small break loss-of-coolant accident testing of scaled models of the Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Steam Supply System. He also managed the Performance Engineering Unit at Babcock and Wilcox’s Nuclear Operations Group in Barberton, Ohio prior to the mPower development project. The Unit is responsible for the thermal-hydraulic design of nuclear plant components including multi-phase heat exchangers. Mr. Childerson received his bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering in 1980 and his master’s degree in nuclear engineering in 1981, both from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with the State of Ohio. Dr. Henry Cialone Dr Cialone is President and CEO of EWI, North America’s leading independent materials joining technology organization. He has a record of creating new business opportunities through technological innovation. After joining EWI in 2005, Dr. Cialone engineered a turnaround of the company by focusing on strengthening the balance sheet, expanding the company’s portfolio of manufacturing technologies, and creating public-private partnerships like the Nuclear Fabrication Consortium. Previously, he was an executive at Battelle, where he developed and managed the commercial energy technology portfolio ultimately leading the commercial energy business and serving on the governing board of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Dr. Cialone received his BS degree in materials engineering from Brown University, and his MS and PhD degrees in materials science, also from Brown, where he specialized in hydrogen enhanced fracture. He has completed executive management programs at Fuqua and Wharton. Dr. Rich Denning Dr. Denning spent most of his career at Battelle Memorial Institute before joining the OSU faculty in 1999. He was a major contributor to the two major studies of the risk of nuclear power plant accidents, WASH-1400 (1975) and NUREG-1150 (1990. He assisted the NRC in the development and oversight of its severe accident research program. He was a consultant to the Three Mile Island Special Inquiry Group. Dr. Denning was previously a member of DOE’s Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety and NRC’s Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. He chaired the Nuclear Engineering Program at The Ohio State University from July 1999 to June 2001 and from March 2006 to June 2007. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He has recently been examining the societal risk of nuclear power plant accidents in light of the extensive land contamination experienced in the Fukushima Dai-ichi accidents in comparison with other societal risks. Dr. Charles Forsberg Dr. Forsberg is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study, Director and principle investigator of the High-Temperature Salt-Cooled Reactor Project, and University Lead for Idaho National Laboratory Institute for Nuclear Energy and Science (INEST) Nuclear Hybrid Energy Systems program. Before joining MIT, he was a Corporate Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and recipient of the 2005 Robert E. Wilson Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for outstanding chemical engineering contributions to nuclear energy, including his work in hydrogen production and nuclear-renewable energy futures. He received the American Nuclear Society special award for innovative nuclear reactor design on salt-cooled reactors. Dr. Forsberg earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota and his doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. He has been awarded 11 patents and has published over 200 papers. Dr. Robert Hargraves Dr. Hargraves is a study leader at Dartmouth ILEAD. He was chief information officer at Boston Scientific Corporation and previously a senior consultant with Arthur D. Little. He founded a computer software firm, DTSS Incorporated, while at Dartmouth College where he was assistant professor of mathematics and associate director of the computation center. He graduated from Brown University (Ph.D. Physics) and Dartmouth College (A.B. Mathematics and Physics). Dr. Hargraves is the author of the book THORIUM: energy cheaper than coal. He promotes the “Aim High!” vision of a world energy future powered by Thorium and liquid-fluoride reactors. He is the co-author of the American Scientist article “Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors” and teaches energy policy at Dartmouth’s Institute for Lifelong Education. Dr. Robert Iotti Dr. Iotti has had an extensive career in the nuclear industry, primarily in engineering and construction, project management and liability management. Dr. Iotti’s involvement with fusion energy dates back to the early 80’s with the design and construction of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR ), then with the design of the TPX at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory until TPX was canceled (TPX eventually became South Korea’s K-Star. In the early 90’s he was seconded to the Department of Energy to help manage the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor , at that time a joint effort of the European Union, Japan, the Soviet Union and the US to develop fusion power. The U.S left ITER for a period of years, but rejoined when the [...]
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