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August 31, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Raymond F.
Fraley Exegntive Director, ACRS/ACNW TrhR FROM:
child Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Legal Counsel, Legislation and Special Projects
SUBJECT:
STOCK OWNERSHIP BY ACRS/ACNW MEMBERS As you are aware, the.Crmmission in response to the stock ownership exemption request of Mr. William J. Lindblad has-requested the Office of the General Counsel to prepare for Commission consideration a rulemaking proposal which would address the issue of whether advisory committee members should be subject to the Commission's stock ownership restrictions.
See Memorandum from Samuel J. Chilk, Secretary to William C.
- Parler, General Counsel on COMSECY-92-019, dated August 28, 1992.
To assist the Office of the General Counsel prepare its analysis of the issues, I would appreciate it if you could provide me with the views of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards and the Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste on whether members of those committees should be subject to the stock ownership restrictions.
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617 495-3387 Mailine-Addressi ITS 530-3387 Depc. of Physics Harvard Universicy FAX: (617) 495 0416 Cambridge, MA 02138 TLX:
499 2111 RARHEPL BITNET: vilson @ HUREPL Office Andre s n_:_.
PHYSNET: HUNEPL::vLison Lyman Laboratory. Rs. 231 EDUCATION St. Paul's School, London,. England Christ Church, Oxford University, Oxford, England:
Open Mathematical Scholar 1943 B.A.
(Physics) 1946 M.A.,
D.Phil. (Physics) 1950
_P_ OSITIONS 1949-54 Reseprch Lecturer. Oxford University Research Associate, Universicy of Rochester 1950-51 Research Associate.' Stanford University 1951-52 Research Officer, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University 1952-55 Assistant Professor of Physics, Harvard University 1955-57 Associate Professor of Physics, Harvard University 1957-61 Professor of Physics, Harvard University 1961-83 chairman, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
.1982-85 Chairman, Cyclotron Operating Committee, 1961-81 Harvard University Cyclotron Operating Committee. Harvard University, Member 1981-present Acting Director, Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Harvard University 1977-79 r
Member, Advisory Committee, Energy and Environmental Policy Center Harvard University 1979-90 Associate, Adams House, Harvard University 1971-present Affiliate, cancer for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University 1990- pre sent Affiliate, Gancer for Science and International Affairs, Harv Eniversity 1990- present Director, W Center for Global Environmental Change, HarvarW Opiversity 1990-present Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University 1983-present sgwMn AND VISITIltG POSITION _S, Stanford University 1958 University of Paris-Sud (Orsay) (John Simon Guggenheim Fellow) 1961 Laboratori Nationali di Frascati, Rome (Fulbri5 t Tellow) 1969 h
overseas Lecturer, U.S. Information Agency 1973-83 Lecturer on Energy and Environment, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory 1973 Summer Institute, Berkeley, California Lecturer, Second Enargy Symposium, Boulder, Colorado 1974 ATTACHMENT.H-r
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l 1975 Lecturer, W. Suttmer School on Aspects of Energy Conversion Co-Director, International Schools on Energetics I, II, III, IV, 1974-80 Erice. Italy Grenoble, France 1981 Visiting Professor, Ut.iversity of Grenoble, 1981 Visiting Scientist, CERN, Caneva, Switzerland 1982 National Science Foundation Lecturer, Pakistan COMMITTEE. CONSULTANT. AND OTHER POSITIONS 1956-B4 Editor Annals of Physics 1967-70 Assistant National Science Foundation, Physics Advisory Board 1968-73 Trustee, Universities Pasearch Association 1971-72 Consultant to the Attorney Ganaral, State of Maine 1973 Transportation Advisory Comittee, City of Newton Energy Research and Development Administration Breeder Reactor 1974-76 Safety Committee to the Nuclear Re5ulatory Commission Advisory Committee Consultant 1974-77 on Reactor Safeguards 1975-77 Consultant to the Electric Power Research Institute 1976-77 Consultant to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1977-82 Consultant to Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1977-78 Consultant to the U.S. General Accounting Office 1977-80 Consultant to Air Products and Chemicals 1977-82 Consultant to Lavrence Livermore Laboratory Visiting Committee. Engineerins Physics Division, Oak Ridge 1978-82 National Lsboratory 1979-83 Consultant to clairol. Inc.
to the Chairman, Governor's Panel on Reactor Safety Subsequent Accident at Three Mile Island, Commonwealth 1979-80 of Massachusetts 1980 consultant to the United Nc. ions Council on Namibia 1982-83 Advisor, King Faisal Intetnational Prize, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 1982-91 National Academy of Sciences Energy Engineering Board Chatruan, American Physical Sociecy Study Group on Radiolo6 cal-1 1983-85 Consequences of Nuclear Power Plants f Rhode Island 1983 U.S. Depart $ga. the Attorney General, State oant of Energy Health and Env Consultant 1984-86 Advise g Committee Visiting cellimittee, Nuclear Engineering Division, Brookhaven 1984-91 National Laboratory Chairman, Visitin5 Committee on Radiation Medicine, Massachusetts1984-present General Hospital Tobacco Smoking Committaa, Health Advisory Council, City of 1984-1988 Nevron Member, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Research Advisory 1986-91 Committee 1988-90 Los Alamos National Laboratory Consultant, Intergovernmancal Personnel A6reement with Food and Drug 1988-90 i
Administration Member. Advisory Council, Atomic Library & Technology 1988-present 9 Center
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Member. Committee on Future Nuclear Power, National Academy 1989-92' of Sciences Member, Organizing Committee, 1st International 1989-90~
Sakharov Conference Member, Science Advisory Committee. Atlantic Legal Foundation 1990-presenc l
Member, Subcommittee on Electromagnecie Radiation Science 1991' Advisory Board. EPA Chairman, International Advisory Committee, Sakharov College.
1991-present of Radioecology (Minsk)
Ceneral Accounting Office (US) Consultant 1977; 1992 1992 -
Director, Sakharov Foundation, New York L
AEARD.S Forum Award, American Physical Society for Forum on Science 1990 and Society socirtirs Fellow, American Physical Society Memb,er, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, New York Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Life Member, Society for Physical Research (landon)
Member, Massachusetts Group A5ainst Smoking. Pollution (GASP).
Member, Society for R.isk Analysis Member, Newton Conservators.(Beard of Directors,'1972-76)
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Richard Wilson was born in London, England in 1926. He got his D.Phil in Oxford in 1949 with a thesis on the cross section for photodisintegration of the deut.eron (1,3,9).
Durin5 a postdoctoral year at Rochester New York, USA, he measured the reaction # + D - P + P thereby determining that the spin of the pi meson is zero (17.18).
Returnin5 to Oxford University, he started an extensive program of work on nucleon-nucleon scattering using the Cyclotron at the Atomic Energy research Establishment (AERE) at Harvell. On accepting an appointment at Harvard in 1955 this which was continued at the Harvard University Cyclotron. This was summarized in his book "Nucleor,mueleon interactions" (Ulley-Interscience) which was recently listed in the citation index as a most quoted book (68,452).
Then ha embarked on a program of electron scattering from hydrogen (protons) and deuterium (proton + neutron).
In a collaboration (in Orsay, France) with 14hmann and Taylor, he was the first to perform a precise (2t) cross section measurement (60). Subsequently he was the first to analyze elastic scatterin6 data in terms of the electric and magnetic form factors.
In a review paper reanalyzing all data, he showed that the ratio of these form factors is almost independant of four momentum transfer (71). This was an important impetus to the theoretical idea of the partial symmetry SU6. Subsequently he extended j
these measurements to higher momentum transfers (93,94,126.139).
He was an early enthusiast for electron-positron colliding beams and with others at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator "by-pass" project, produced in 1972 the first measurement of the extra " charm" degree of freedom, by finding an unexpectedly large cross section for electron-positron annihilation (152,158).
This was subsequently dramatically confirmed at SlAC. He still collaborates in this field with scientists at the Cornell University Storage ring, CESR, with the j
CLEO detector.
He was a principal in the first muon scattering experiment at TERMIlAB which demonstrated that the " scaling" of inelastie' form factors does not hold -
one of the factors that su5 gests the existence of gluon radiation as predicted by the theoretical ideas of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) (189,198,215,217).
Incthe last 25 years, he has spent much time in a number of scientific issues closer to public policy. He joined with others in convertin 5 the Harvard University Cyclotron from nuclear physics use to medical treatment.
He was the first Chairman of the operating committee and still remains a member of the cyclotron operating constittee. This cyclotron has now treated as many patients (over 5,000) with heavy charged particles as all other facilities in the world put to5 ether (229,342,388,396).
He has also been involved with various aspects of energy policy, and in particular in explaining nuclear power and nuclear safety to the public.
He was Chairman of a comanittee of the American Physical-Society to study the "Radiolo5 cal consequences of severe nuclear power accidents" (341). He was one i
of the first foreigners to visit Chernobyl after the accident in 1986 (389), and B
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He has written extensively since -
about the accident (475,485,501).
He is now Chairman of.an International Advisory Committee to the newly formed Sakharov College of Radioecology in Minsk.
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He also chaired an advisory committee for the government of the i
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Republic of China, on the operation of the nuclear power plants in Taiwan.
has worked in particular on possible effects of low doses of radiation on public health (457,458,470,471).
He has been an early writer in the field of Risk Analysis (174,227)'and is a founder member of the Society of Risk Analysis. In this, he has' been a pioneer I
in the use of 'comparin5 risks to aid in their understanding (212,406). He has 1ectured on this subject in over 25 countries.
In 1990 he was awarded ~the
" Forum Award" of the American Physical Society, for his work in communicating i
physics to the public (454).
He has also written on details of risk assessment of chemical carcinogens (437,440), and in particular on the controversial question of how the risk.of' chemically produced cancer may be lo6 cally derived from the data on animal 1
bioassays (211.363,460,479).
In all of thia he emphasizes proper attention to uncertainty (305.327).
He has always been attentive to 5 obal environmental issues such as global.
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air pollution and acid rain (225,244) and is presently Director. of the. NE Regional Centar of the National Institute of Global Environmental Change (486)..
l He' han served on a dozen government advisory committees in many different agencies and countries.
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Richard Wilson Selected Publications 3.
"The decay constant of radio-sodium, 2'Na,"
R'. Wilson and C.R. Bisby,
j Proc. Phys. Soc. Lond. jM, 457 (1949).
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"The cross section for photodisintegration of the deutcron at. lov.
energies," G.R. Bishop, C.H. Collie, H. Halban, A. Hedgran, K. Siegbahn, S. DuToit and R. Vilson, Phys. Rev. H.D., 211 (1950).
17.
" Cross section for the reaction of z' + d p + p and the spin of the r+
meson," D.L. Clark, A. Roberts and Richard U11 son, Phys. Rev. (letter) g),,
549 (1951).
18.
" Disintegration of the deuteron by w+ mason," Donald L.
Clark, Arthur Roberts and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. H, 523 (1952).
60.
" Electron-proton scattering at low momentum trans fe rs, " P. Lehmann, P..
Taylor and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. H i, 1183 (1962).
68.
NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS, EXPERMENTAL ASPECTS, Richard Wilson, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1963.
71.
" Electric and magnetic form factors of the nucleon," L.N.
Hand,.D.G.
Miller and Richard Wilson, Rev. Mod. Phys. H, 335 (1963).
93.
" Measurements of elastic electron-proton scattering at. high momentum transfer by a coincidence technique."
M. ' Goitein.
R.J.
- Budnitz, L.
Carroll, J. Chen, J.R. Dunning, Jr., K. Hanson, D. Imrie, C. Mistretta, J.K. Valker and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. Intes. H, 1016 (1967).
'l 94.
" Comparison of elastic electron-proton scattering cross sections with some theoretical predictions,"
M.
- Goitein, J.R. Dunning,'Jr. and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. Lates. H. 1018 (1967).
126.
" Elastic electron-proton scattering cross sections measured by a coincidence technique " M. Goirein, R.J. Budnitz, L. Carroll, J.R. Chan, j
J.R. Dunning, Jr., K. Hanson, D.C. Imrie, C, Mistretta and Richard Wilson,.
.l Phys. Rev. E, 2449 (1970),
j 139.
- $enkward-angle electron-proton elastic scattering and proton-e64ceroma5netic form factors," L.U. Price, J.R. Dunning, Jr., M.
- Goitein, C1Benson, T. Kirk, and Richard Wilson, Phys. Rev. E, 45 (1971).
4 GeV center-152.
" Hadron production by electron-positron annihilation at of-mass energy," A. Licke, et al., Phys. Rev. Letts., vol. 30, No. 23, pp.
1189-1192 (1973).
158.
" Hadron Production by Electron-Positron Annihilaton at $ GeV Center of Mass Energy," J. - Leong, et al.
Paper presented at the int. Conf. on Electron and Photon Interactions at Hi h Energies, Bonn, Germany, August 5
(1973).
174.
" Examples -in Risk Benefit Analysis." New Scientist (1975); also in
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" Measurement of the Proton Structure Function from Muon Scattering," Phys.
189.
Rev lerts.. H, 1450 (1977).
of 198.
"From the Compton Effect to Quarks and Asymptotic Freedoci," Amer. J.
Phys.. ji, 1139 (1977).
4 of "Interspecies Comparison of Carcinogenic Potency," with E. Crouch, J.
211.
Tox. and Environ. Health. 5:1095-1118, 1979.
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212.
"The Daily Risks of Life," Technology Review, March 1979.
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"A Measurement of the Nucleon Structure Functions," B.A. Gordon, et al.,
215.
i Physical Review D22, 2645 (1979).
217.
" Muon Scattering at 219 GeV and the Proton Structure Function, B.A.
Gordon, et al.. Phys. Rev. Letts. 41, 615 (1978),
225. Hen 1th Effects of Fossil Fuel Burninc* Assessment and Mirication,
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with S.D. Colome, J.D. Spengler and D.C. Wilson, Ballinger Cambrid e, MA (1981).
Publishing Company:
5 Risk / Benefit Annivsis, with E. A.C. Crouch, Ballinger Publishing Company:
227.
Cambridge MA (1982).
The cyclotron," Harvard Magazine, pp. 58-62, Nov.-Dec.1979.
229.
"Rx:
" Health Effects of Fossil Fus1 Burning," The Env. Prof., 2d, 224 (1980).
244 305.
"The Risks of Drinking Vater," with E. A.C. Crouch and L. Zeise, Vater Resources Research, H. 1359 (1983).
" Uncertainty in Risk Assessment," with E. A.C. Crouch and L. Zeise, Banbury 327.
Report H, 133 (1985).
341.
" Report to The American Physical Society of the Study Group on radionuclide release froin severe accidents at nuclear power plants",
j 3aviews of Modern Physics, 22, 3, pt. II, July 1985.
tautial for low LET charged particle radiation therapy in cancer", with 342.
M h 1 Goitain, Herman D. Suit. Evan5elos Gragoudas, Andreas Koehler, Rad. Research, Vol. 104, pp. F297-F309 (1985).
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" Problems in Interspecies Comparisons," with E. Crouch, in Mechanisma of 363.
DMA D== ee and Renair.
Imolications for Careinerenesis and Riak Assessment. Ed. M. Simic, L. Grossman, and A.
Upton, New York:
Plenum Press, 1986, p. 543.
389.
"A Visit to Chernobyl," Science, 215., 1636 (1987).
" Proton Beam Treatment Facility for Tumors of the Eye," A.M. Koehler, E.
396.
B.
Gottschalk, J.
Muczourider, J. Sisterson, M. Wagner, R.
Gragoudas,presented at the Second International Meeting on Diagnosis and
- Wilson, 1987).
Treatment of Intraocular Tumors. Nyon, Switzerland (Nov.
An Introduction " with E.A.C. Crouch, 406.
" Risk Assessment and Comparisons,:
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437.
-Do Mouse liver tumors predict rat tumors? A study of coneccdance between tumors induced in different sites in rats and mice."
P.M.Byrd, E.A.C.
Crouch, Richard Wilson, he Liver Carcinorenisis: Mech.snisms and Seecies Comparisons. p. 19-41, Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1990.
440.
" Consistencies and Inconsistencies underlying the quantitative assessment of Icukemia risk from benzene exposure" 5.H.Laas, A.S Walters, Richard Wilson D.M.Byrd and Hans Grunwald, Environmental Health Perspectives, 11, 289,'1989.
452.
"First Review of the Mature Field of Nucleon-Nucleon Intaractions", R.
Wilson, Current Contents 21, 20 (1990).
454.
" Comparing Risks
-A Hazardous Undertaking", Forum Award Lecture, R.
Wilson. Physics and Society 11, 3 (1990).
457.
" Leukemias in Plymouth County, Massachusetts", R. Wilson, letter to the f
edieor.
Health Physics f.1, 279 (1991).
'l 458.
" Radiation Doses and Cancer",
A. Shylakhter, R. Wilson, Nature HQ, 25 (1991).
..J.
460.
" Predicting the Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Humans from Rodent Bioassay Data", G. Goodman, R. Wilson. Environ. Health Perspect. 3: 195 (1991).
470.
"Is There a Large Risk of Radiation?
A Critical Review of Pessimistic Claims",
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Shihab-Eldin, A.
Shlyakhter, R.
Wilson.
Environmental International, 11, 117-151 (1992).
471.
"Is There a Large Risk of Radiation?
A Critical Review of Pessimistic Claims",
A.
Shihab-Eldin, A.
Shlyakhter, R. Wilson.
Argonne National Laboratory Report, 1991.
(102 pages) 475.
"The Effects of the Chernobyl Accident.
What We Know, What We Want to Know and How to yind Out".
Presented at the lac International Sakharov Confepanes on Peace, Progress and Human Rights, Moscow, May 22, 1991.
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479.
"Quane$tative Prediction of Human Cancer Risk from Rodent Carcinogenic Potend$as:
A Closer Look at the Epidemiological Evidence for some Chemicals Not Definitively Carcinogenic in Humans".
C.
- Goodman, R.
Ullson, Regul. Toxicol. Pharmacol. M, 118 (1991).
485.
"Chernobyl and Glasnost: The Effects of Secrecy on Health and Safety", A.
Shlyakhtar and R. Wilson, Environment M. 25-30 (1992).
486.
" Climate Change as a Risk Problem",
A.
Shlyakhter and R.
Wilson, in Thinkint Man's Guida to the Creenhouse Problem",
W.
Clark and H. Lee, editors.
501.
"Chernoby1: The Inevitable Results of Secrecy", A. Shlyakhter, R. Wilson, j
Submitted, Public Understand. Sci. 1 251-259 (1992).
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Sept.3, 1992 Ms. Mabel Lee, ACRS Staff Enclosed is a copy of my resume including publications and presentations in detail.
There are several items that are likely relevant that do not appear there.
I have an active DOE Q clearance (CI003590 AB).
Either LASL or Sandia - Albuquerque should be able to confirm that.
I have been named to the INPO Advisory Council beginning -in February 1993.
That group does not make policy - I believe Commissioner Remick served on it until recently.
I have no active contracts with NRC regulated utilities.
I have been invited to give presentations on training and accreditation activities at Palo. Verde in the past.
I do not own stock in any utility or equipment vendor.
My retirement plan may have some holdings but I play no part in the management of those portfolios.
If conflict of-interest is deemed tx> exist due to any of my current activities, I would be willing to discuss and possibly reconsider their continuation.
If there are further inquiries you might need to make,. I will be glad to respond.
Sincerely, Robert L.
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RESUME Robert L.
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Address:
8815 Calle Bogota, Tucson, Ari zona 85715 Telephone:
Home - 602/298-7118; Work - 602/621-8793; FAX - 602/621-8096 Born:
March 18, 1928, Rosenberg, Texas EDUCATION B.S.
in Physics - University of Houston, 1947 M.A.
in Physics - University of Texas, 1951 Ph.D. - University of Texas, 1953 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE July 1990-present:
Professor of Nuclear and Energy Engineering, University of Arizona.
1969-1990:
Professor and Head of the Department of Nuclear &
Energy Engineering, University of Arizona..
1961-1968:
Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of-Arizona.
1959-1961:
Part-time Lecturer in Physics at Arlington State College, Arlington, Texas.
1955-1959:- Part-time Lecturer in Nuclear Engineering at Southern Methodist University, Dallas,. Texas.
1949-1953:
Research Scientist in Nuclear Physics Laboratory and Defense Research Laboratory at The University of Texas.
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE 1947-1948:
Analysis of seismic data for petroleum prospecting for Gulf Research and Development Company, Houston, Texas.
1953-1961:
General Dynamics / Fort Worth (formerly Convair).
Several positions including work in~ shielding; supervisor of Nuclear Analysis Group that developed advanced shield design methods, etc., assistant project engineer for nuclear systems for the ANP airplane program; chief.of Nuclear Design and Operations
Robert L. Seale Page 2 including supervision of work in operation of ASTR and GTR reictors, etc., probabilistic assessment of the risk cf operations of ANP aircraft,Salto-directed
studies in advanced space power systems and served as consultant to the Special Committee on Space Material Requirements of the Materials Advisory Board of the National Academy of Sciences.
CONSULTING 1962 present:
Consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
1966-present:
Consultant to Reactor Safeguards Committee, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1972-1983:
Consultant to Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
1979:
Consultant to the Technical Staff of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (The Kemeny Commission).
1981-1983:
Member, Safety Audit Committee, Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Arizona Public Service Company, Phoenix, Arizona.
1981-1983:
Senior Consultant, Industry Degraded Core Program, Technology for Energy Corporation, Knoxville, TN.
1987-1991:
Member, Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety, Department of Energy.
1992:
Consultant t,o Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Member of an external assessment team for ES&H activities at.LLNL.
REGISTRATION 1964-present:
Registered Professional Engineer (Arizona #5608)
COMMITTEES AND BOARDS 1969-present:
Member of Education and Research Committee of Associated Western Universities.
1971-1983:
Member of Nuclear Engineering Education Committee,
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Argonne Universities Association.
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Engineering Evaluation and Accreditation Committee of the American Nuclear Society.
1972-1978:
Representative from the American Nuclear Society to the Board of Directors, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.
1977-1978:
Chairman, Education Division, American Nuclear
- Society, 1979-1984:
Member, Engineering Accreditation. Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.
1982-1984:
Member and Vice Chairman of the American Nuclear Society Special Committee on Nuclear Reactor Accident Source Terms.
1985-1986:
Member National Research Council Committee on Electricity in Economic Growth.
1985-1991:
Member of National Nuclear Accrediting-Board.for Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Operating Personnel.
1985-1989:
Member of Honors & Awards Committee, American Nuclear Society.
1986-1987:
Member EPRI Senior Review Committee on Chernobyl Reactor Accident Response Program.
1986-1990:
Member of University of Chicago. Review Committee for Reactor Analysis and Safety Division, Argonne National Laboratory.
1988-1990:
Member National Research Council Committee on Nuclear Engineering Education.
1992-present:
Member of The Accrediting Board, U. S. Department' of Energy, Training Accreditation Program.
SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Nuclear Society (Fellow)
American Physical Society American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
Society of the Sigma Xi National Society of-Professional Engineers Tau Beta Pi J/
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'I Robert L.
Seale Page 4 RESEARCH INTERESTS Nuclear Criticality Safety in Fuel Processing and other out-of-reactor situations throughout the fuel cycle.
Safety and Dynamics of Reactor Systems.
Thermal-Hydraulic Design of Reactor Syctema.
Environmental Effects of Nuclear Fuel Cycle.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
" Coupled Phoebus Cores," Los Alamos Scientific La'boratory, Report No. LA-3284-MS.
" Investigation of Power Asymmetries in Coupled Rocket Reactor Cores," Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Report No. LA-3283-MS.
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" Studies of U-235 Post-Fission Gamma and Beta Radiation and of Post-Shutdown Radiation Release from Fission Operation at Constant Power," (with Peterson and Graves),-Los Alamos n;ientific Laboratory, Technical Report LA-2902.
" Neutron Waves and Vibrational Modes in Moderating Materials,"
(with D. L.
Hetrick), abstracted in Bull. Amer. Phys. Soc., Ser.
II, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1964); published as University of Arizona Engineering Research Laboratories Technical Report No.1.
" Power Density Asymmetries in Coupled-Core Reactor Systems,"
LA-3283-MS, September 1964.
" Investigation of Coupled Phoebus Cores,"
LA-3284-MS, December 1964'.
" Temperature-Dependent Kinetics of Coupled-Core Reactor," (with C. G. Chezem), Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Report No.
LA-3148-MS, December 1964.
" Application'of Dual Purpose Nuclear Reactors to Desalting Sea Water for Arizona," (with R. G.
Post), 41st Annual Meeting, Rocky Mountain Division of AAAS, Flagstaff, Arizona (May 1965).
" Techniques and Kinetic Analysis of the Los Alamos Coupled-Reactor Experiment," (with C. G. Chezem and H. H.
Helmick), llth Annual Meeting American Nuclear Society, Gatlinburg, TN (June 1965).
"The Los Alamos Coupled Kiwi B-4 Experiments," (with C. G. Chezem and H.
H.
Helmick), AIAA Propulsion, Joint Specialists Conference, Colorado Springs, CO (June 1965).
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.Page 5 Water Production Using Nuclear Energy, (Editor, with R. G.-Post),
Proceedings.of Symposium held March 1966, University of Arizona Press (1966).
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" Thermodynamics of Selected Water Processes,". Paper given-at Symposium on' Water Production Using Nuclear Energy,-Proceedings' l
published by the University of Arizona Press, 1966.
" Calculation of Interaction Parameters for Loosely Coupled Reactor Systems," (with.G.'E. Hansen),. Paper _at Symposium on i
Coupled Reactor Kinetics, Texas A & M University, January 1967.
-i Published in Proceedings of Coupled KineticsLConference, June 1967.
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"The Study of Thermal' Neutrons in Shields Containing Ducts by Source Separation Techniques," (with F. R.
Channon),.Nucl. Sci.-
and Engr. 30 No. 2, 242 (1967).
" Thermal Neutron Behavior in Shield Ducts," (with F.
R..Channon),
LPaper at International Conference on the Physics Problems of Reactor Shielding, British Nuclear Energy Society,-Harwell,
September 1967.
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" Modulated Neutron Source," (with J. E. Foley),' Transactions of the American Nuclear Society 10 No. 1,.313 (1967).
"A New Method for Determining Half-Lives Using a' Modulated.
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Excitation Source," Transactions of the'ANS ll'No. 1,J72 (1968).-
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" Production of High Frequency Neutron Waves from a Positive-Ion Electrostatic Accelerator," (with J. E. Foley),1 Nuclear Applications 6 142-146, February 1969.
"The Neutron Slowing. Down Time Kernel for Graphite,"-(Seale, et al.), Transactions of the ANS 13'No. 2, 691 (1970).
i "A Review of'the CRAC Experiments," Transactions of the ANS'14 i
No. 1 (1971).
"Some Recent Applications of a Modulated Source,". Dynamics of Nuclear Systems, pp 65-85, University of Arizona. Press.(1971I.
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Energy, the Environment, and Education, Proceedings of Symposium at the University of Arizona, April 1971 (Edited-with Raymond A a
Sierka) University of Arizona Press.
"A Review of the Experiments Performed to. Determine the
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Radiological Consequences of a Criticality Accident," (with P.
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3 Robert L. Seale Page 6 Lecorche, CEA France) Oak Ridge Criticality Data Center-Report CDC-Y-012 (1973).
" Consequences of Criticality Accidents," (Editor, R.
Douglas O' Dell), Proceedings of a short course, May 7-11, 1973.
Published in Nuclear Criticality Safety, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Report TID-2286 (1974).
" Kinetics Calculation in Criticality Safety," International Seminar of Criticality Studies Programs and Needs," CEA, Dijon, France (1983).
" Overview of Power Excursion Analysis Methodology", DOE Contractors workshop,-Rockville, MD, February 1983.
" Report of Special Committee on Source Terms," co-author, American Nuclear Society (1984).
" Safety Design Aspects of Reactors:
Postulated Accidents and Safety Features,"
Amer. Assoc. for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, New York, May 24-29, 1984.
"The Source Terms Resulting from Severe Reactor Accidents,"
Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Nuclear Safety of the Nuclear Safety Research Association held in Tokyo, Japan, 14 June i
1985.
j "Some Different Thoughts on the Problem of Replacements for the Aging Professionals," Am. Nucl. Soc. Criticality Safety Topical j
Meeting, Jackson, WY, Sept. 9-11, 1985.
" Technical Issues in the Training of' Criticality Safety Experts,"
Journal of the People-to-People Nuclear Criticality Safety j
Delegation to the People's Republic of China, June 12-31, 1988, Richard Malenfant, Delegation Leader.
" Differences'Between Initial Accreditation and Renewal Efforts,"
presentation to the Northeast Training Association, November 1, 1988.
Presented the Keynote Address _to the Nuclear Criticality I
Technology and Safety Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 12, 1989.
" Neutron Slowing Down Measurements in the Frequency Domain,"
Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Safety Margins in Criticality Safety, American Nuclear Society, November 1989.
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" Intrinsic Neutron Source Strengths in Uranium Solution," (with R.
E.
Anderson), Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 62, 1991.
" Experimental Determination of Intrinsic Strength in Various Uranium Solutions," (with R. E. Anderson),. International Conference on Nuclear Criticality Safety, Oxford,. England, 1991.
" Accrediting Board Reflections", presentation to the INPO.
Training Manager's Workshop, Atlanta, Ga., April 13, 1992.
" Industry Events Training - It is as Dry As Dust", Session at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Training Workshop, Phoenix, Az., May 19, 1992.
Presented the Keynote Address, " Training Issues and Requirements Based on the ACNFS Experience", DOE Training Accreditation Program Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, June 16,'1992.
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Richard S. Denning Battelle Senior Research leader l
Energy Systems Group Education B.E., Physics, Cornell University M.S.E., Nuclear Engineering, University of Florida Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Florida Qualifications Dr. Denning has directed and performed research related to the safety and risk of nuclear facilities and nuclear power reactors for 25 years. He directed Battelle's participation in the Reactor Safety Study, the first major effort to describe the risk to the public from nuclear plants. Dr. Denning subsequently managed a number of programs for the NRC involved with the development and application of codes for the assessment of severe accidents.
He has also performed studies to develop methods for the use of risk analysis results for regulatory decision making and research prioritization. Dr. Denning was a major contributor and lead author on two chapters of the NRC's evaluation of the technical basis for severe accident source terms, NUREG-0772. He has been a reviewer and provided technical support to the NRC's reassessment of accident source terms, NUREG-0956, and managed a task to provide source term analyses for NUREG-1150, an evaluation of reactor risk for five reference plants. He authored a chapter of the PRA Procedures Guide, NUREG/CR-2300. He was appointed to a National Research Council Committee to review the safety of DOE reactors. He also attended the IAEA Vienna Conference on Chernobyl as a U. S. delegate. He was a member of DOE's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety,.1987-1990.
H e is currently a member of the Safety Advisory Committee for the Advanced Neutron Source.
Relevant Experience New Production Reactor (NPR). Dr. Denning currently has responsibility for Environment, Safety and Health for the Heavy Water Reactor Facility. Two levels of internal safety assessment are being performed under his direction: a detailed review which primarily assures conformance with detailed review plans, DOE Orders and NPR Requirements, and a higher level review performed by the Independent Safety Review Team. 'Ibe Integrated Safety Analysis Report and required environmental permit applications will be prepared under his supervision.
Reactor Risk Studies. In support of the NRC's reexamination of the risk of light water reactors (NUREG-1150), Dr. Denning managed the analysis of source terms for the five reference plants. He also authored two of the chapters in the report. He participated as a technical expert in the areas of fission product behavior, severe accident loads and containment performance for the NUREG-1150 uncertainty analysis. Earlier, Dr. Denning coordinated Battelle's efforts in WASH-1400, the first comprehensive examination of nuclear power plant risk.
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Safety Analyses for Pantex Facilities. Dr. Denning currently has responsibility for performing safety and risk analyses and for preparing safety analysis repons for facilities at the Pantex facility. These SARs are being performed according to DOE Order 5481.1B and to the revised guidance DOE 5480.23.
Accident Manacement Procrams.
Under subcontract to Battelle's Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Dr. Denning managed a task to assist the NRC evaluate candidate accident management strategies for commercial reactors. The results of these studies are being used by the NRC in evaluating IPE submissions.
Dr. Denning recently completed an Accident Management Program Plan for the Heavy Water New Production Reactor to be sited at Savannah River. Earlier he participated in the writing of NUREG/CR4177, Management of Severe Accidents, which was the NRC's original development of accident management principles. Dr. Denning participated in the NRC-IDCOR management meetings as a consultant to the NRC.
Source Term Reassessment.
Dr. Denning has been a major contributor to the NRC's reassessment of severe accident source terms. He performed analyses of physical processes of severe accidents in support of the two definitive NRC studies, NUREG-0772 and NUREG 0956. The Source Term Code Package, which was developed at Battelle, is the basis for the NRC's recommended treatment of source terms.
Severe Accident Research. Dr. Denning managed a task to assist the NRC in the evaluation and redirection of severe accident research. Dr. Denning managed the development of the severe accident code, MARCH. He supported the NRC's Special Inquiry Group examination of the TMI-2 accident.
Safety and Risk Studies for Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Dr. Denning managed programs on accident analysis and risk assessment for the gaseous diffusion plants (GDP),
which are government-owned reactor fuel enriching operations. The study produced an evaluation of the health effects of fluoride (UF and HF) releases, a risk analysis for the HF 6
Tank Farm, and an accident analysis with estimates of residual risk for an upgraded HF Tank Farm at the Portsmouth GDP.
The study also performed an accident analysis for the Decontamination and Recovery Facility and criticality analysis for the high assay sections of the cascade operations at Piketon.
Safety Analysis for Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Dr. Denning directed analyses on the safety of the existing HF, F, and acid handling systems at PGDP. Final report on this project 2
was used as Section 5 of the FSAR for the facility, according to the guidelines of DOE /OR 5481.1.
Alternative Reactor Concents. Dr. Denning was a task leader on a major program performed for NSF to evaluate the potential advantages of a number of reactor concepts as alternatives to the liquid metal fast breeder reactor, light water breeder reactor, gas-cooled fast reactor, and high temperature gas-cooled reactor. Each concept was evaluated :n the bases of economics, safety, environmental impact, safeguards, and development needs or hurdles.
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Nitride Fuels Development. In the nitride fuels development program at Battelle, Dr. Denning performed kinetics analyses for a planned series of tests in the TREAT facility which was intended to investigate the response of these fuels to rapid power transients. Nitride fuels are leading contenders for the use in space nuclear power systems and small reactors for remote applications.
Industrial Anolications of Laser Fusion EngIgy. Acted as deputy program manager in an examination of the potential for applying Laser Fusion Reactors to industrial process heat applications.
Fusion Power Development Issues. Dr. Denning was principal investigator on an NSF study to evaluate alternative development strategies for commercial fusion power with particular emphasis on the relationship between fusion power development and fission breeder development.
Evaluation of ECC Behavior for the MHIA Reactor. Managed a program in which Battelle evaluated the ability of upgraded ECC systems in the MHIA Reactor to satisfy NRC regulations.
Risk of Disposal of Hich Level Radioactive Waste in Scace.
Performed a comparative evaluation of the comparative risks of terrestrial and space disposal of high level waste from nuclear power plants.
Reactor Kinetics Studies. Dr. Denning wrote the two-dimensional, multi-group, space-time kinetics code ADEP which is available from the Argonne Code Center. He has used this code to explore the accuracy of point kinetics approximations and few-group collapsing techniques for the description of the rod-ejection accident in a pressurized water reactor and rod drop-out accident in a boiling water reactor.
Shieldine Design of the Rocky Flats Plutonium Recovery Facility. Under subcontract to the architect-engineer, Dr. Denning developed methods of analysis for shielding plutonium handling operations. He then provided technical consultation and review of the shielding design effort.
Professional Recognition nnd Affiliations Member, American Nuclear Society, Sigma Xi; Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio (No. 39072); Chairman of Battelle's Radiological Safety Committee; Chairman of Battelle's Operational Readiness Review Committee for D&D Operations. Holds active DOE Q and DoD Secret clearances.
Publications Denning, R. S., "'Ibe Safety of DOE Facilities; How Much is Too Much", ANS Topical Meeting on Non Commercial Reactor Safety,1990.
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Denning, R. S., " Severe Accident Behavior", Proceedings of the ACS Severe Accident Chemistry Symposium, September 1986.
Denning, R. S., Cybulskis, P., and DiSalvo, R., " Changing Perspectives on Severe Accident Source Terms", Proceedings of the ANS Topical Meeting - Radiological Accidents-Perspectives and Emergency Planning, September 1986.
Denning, R. S., and Cybulskis, P., " Secondary Containment Building Performance in Severe Accidents", Proceedings of Third Work:: hop on Containment Integrity (NUREG/CP-0076),
j May 1986.
Denning, R. S., Cybulskis, P., and Gieseke, J. A., " Changes in Source Term Perspectives",
Supplemental Proceedings for the ANS Thermal Reactor Safety Conference, Februtry 1986.
Denning, R. S., "The Three Mile Island Unit 2 Core: A Post-Mortem Examination", Annual Review of Energy, Volume 10, 1985.
Denning, R. S., " Interactions and Feedback Effect in Severe Accident Analysis", Proceedings of the ANS/ ENS International Meeting on Thermal Nuclear Reactor Safety, September 1984.
Gieseke, J. A., Chen, H., Cybulskis, P., Denning, R. S., Kuhlman, M. R., and Lee, K. W.,
"Radionuclide Release to the Environment Under Specific LWR Accident Conditions",
Proceedings of the ANS/ ENS International Meeting on Thermal Nuclear Reactor Safety, September 1984.
Denning, R.
S.,
" Perspectives on Technical Issues Evolving from the Source Term Reassessment", Proceedings of LWR Safety Research Meeting, October 1984.
Denning, R. S., " Consequence Analysis Models and Methods in PRA", Proceedings of the j
ANS Mathematical and Computation Meeting, December 1982.
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Rice, E. E., Denning, R. S., Friedlander, A. L. and Priest, C. C., " Preliminary Risk Benefit Assessment for Nuclear Waste Disposal in Space" IAA-82-234, 33rd Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, September 27-October 2,1982, Paris, France.
Yates, K. R., Jung, R. G., and Denning, R. S., " Analysis of an Oil-Uranium Deposit in Gaseous Diffusion Equipment", Transactions of the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting, June 1982.
Denning, R. S., " Key Features of LWR Accident Sequences Which Aff6ct the Consequences",
IAEA Technical Conunittee Meeting on Airborne Fission Product Release Following Extensive Core Damage Accidents, October 1981.
l Denning, R. S., Baybutt, P., and Morewitz, H., " Fission Product Behavior and Containment Response Models for Use in PRA Studies", Proceedings of the International ANS/ ENS Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Risk Assessment, September 1981.
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Denning, R. S., and Cybulskis, P., " Reduction of Reactor Risk by the Mitigation of Accident Consequences", Nuclear Safety,22:2, March-April 1981.
Denning, R. S., and Cybulskis, P., " Reduction of Reactor Risk by the Mitigation of Accident Consequences", Proceedings of the ANS/ ENS Topical Meeting on Thermal Reactor Safety, April 1980.
Denning, R. S., " Key Features of LWR Accident Sequences Which Affect the Consequences",
IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on Airborne Fission Product Release Following Extensive Core Damage Sequences, Vienna 1981.
Denning, R. S. and Cybulskis, P., " Reduction in Reactor Risk by the Mitigation of Accident Consequences", Topical Meeting on Thermal Reactor Safety, CONF-800403,1981 and Nuclear Safety, March-April,1981.
Lofgren, E., Denning, R. S., Cudnik, R. A., Hall, R. E., " Application of Partial Failure Analysis to an Accident Involving IAss of Cooling in a Spent Fuel Storage Pool *, Proc of ANS/ ENS Topical Meeting on Thermal Reactor Safety, April,1980.
Kok, K. D., Goldthwaite, W. H., Denning, R. S., et al, " Laser Fusion Systems for Process Heat", Conference on Alternative Energy Sources II,1980.
Denning, R. S., et al, " Methods of Analysis for Core Meltdown Accidents in Light Water Reactors", 6. Jahreskolloquim, Karlsruhe, Germany,1978.
Denning, R. S., et al, " Methods of Analysis for Core Meltdown Accidents", Topical Meeting on Thermal Reactor Safety, CONF-770708, Sun Valley,1977.
Denning, R. S., Cybulskis, P. and Wooton, R. O., " Containment Venting Considerations for Light Water Reactor Accidents", Transactions of the ANS, December 1977.
Levine, S., Wall, I. B., Murphy, J. A., Yanio, Blond, R. M., Denning, R. S., Ritzman, R.
L., McGrath, P. E., Church, H. W. and Wayland, J. R., " Risk Assessment of Light Water Reactors" IAEA-CN-36/447,1977.
Gillett, T. C., Denning, R. S. and Ridihalgh, J. L., " Shielding Calculation Techniques for the Design of Plutonium Processing Facilities", Nuclear Technology, v31,244,1976.
Denning, R. S., "Few-Group Approximations for Transients in Commercial Power Reactors",
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society M (2) 644,1971.
Perez, R. B., Denning, R. S. and Ohanian, M. J., "He neory of Fast Reactor Integral Measurements by Propagation Methods", ANL-7320,714,1967.
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1389 08/13/g2 22:54 FRON : LEWIS HAL LEWIS TO:
ALL SHRY: real ly for Dave Hard Dave:
As before, there i s no way to wri te you a note, ye t make i t access ible to others, except this one. I hope tha t wi l l be fi xed soon. Anyway, th is is a note abou t formal i ty---I think we have become much too informal about our decision-making procedures. You know some that have concerned.
me, in which we have made deci sions a bi t 'too capr iciously, bu t let me ci te two o thers here, then ge t to a conc l us i on.
When the Commi ttee voted to support my trip to Florida in October to give a talk, I should have been asked to l eave the room. O f course i do n ' t obj e c t t o the ou tcom e, bu t th i nk tha t i f any one obj e c ted the y could have fel t pressure to keep s i len t, in genera l, when we make decisi ons abou t indivi dual s, they should leave the room, even when the issue seems to be non-controversial. If it isn ' t done in the easy cases, i t wi l l never be done when the chi ps are down.
We now have (I 'm not sure) either one or two amendments to the bylaws pending. Our bylaws are cl ear on the procedure, but we didn' t foll ow i t, and no one seemed to care. The bylaws state that any member may of fer an amendment, whi ch must be d istr ibuted in wr i ting at a meeti ng, then voted on (or ref erred to commi ttee) at the next meet ing. Two proposed by law amendments were submitted properly, and then one was dropped by the proponent. Then another was added casually (wi th no complaint by our parliamentarian) and we have yet to see it in writing. i hones tly don' t know what i t says. I p lan no fuss abou t th is, but since the last one is clearly out of order for voting at the next meeting, I wonder.how you plan to handle the problem. We should never have gotten into this p i ck l e, and do no t have the r i ght to v i o l a te our o wn by l aws on wh i m.
Similarly our procedure on voting for new member recommendations. We vo ted and then eyeballed the resul ts, af ter which someone said 'we ll it l o oks l i ke a, b, c, e tc. ' It may have been obvious to some, but even if it was, i t wi l l not a lways be. We should have a f orma l and agreed way to count votes when we have to ceder several candidates. As you know, I've only recently discovered that this is for from a trivial question when there are mul t iple voters and r ul t iple candida tes. (There is a beautiful series of articles on this by the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who noticed the problems over a hundred years ago. ) I know I will be told
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that only mathematicians worry about such things, and that it is all I
c l ear to e ng i n eers. pe op l e who mak e su ch a c l a i m ( i f a ny0 shou l d r ead Dodgson.
I f you want me to suggest a voting rul e, I w i l l, but must warn you tha t it is universally acknowledged by informed people to be an insoluble problem. Whatever rule we adopt (and we should adopt one) will have i
intrinsic prob lems of coherence.
The message is that we wil l not always agree wi th each other, and should 4
have c lear procedures for resolving the inevitable disagreements.
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September 9, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR:
ACRS Members FROM:
J.
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Carroll
SUBJECT:
ACRS STAFF EDITING OF ACRS REPORTS On 8/7/92, the Committee voted affirmatively (four to three with two members not present and one member not voting) on a motion to limit the scope of ACRS staff and cognizant Subcommittee Chairmen's
" Monday morning" editing of ACRS reports. This decision will allow-the staff to continue its historic practice of correcting factual errors, adding references, and changing format to the Committee's standard format.
As in the past, such changes will be made with the concurrence of the cognizant Subcommittee Chairmen.
As a result of this decision, neither the staff nor the cognizant Subcommittee Chairmen will be allowed to make standard style changes (e.g.,
10 CFR Part 50 vice 10CFR50 vice 10 CFR 50 or thirteen vice 13 or electrical buses vice busses) or to make changes in sentence structure / grammar, which in their judgment, improve the readability of the report but do not in any way change the Committee's intended meaning at the time it approved the report.
During our report writing session on 8/8/92, it became apparent that the restrictions placed on the staff and the cognizant Subcommittee Chairmen as a result of this motion were not workable.
The Committee agreed to reconsider this matter during its 9/10-12/92 meeting.
I propose the following motion, that:
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The motion concerning staff editing passed by the Committee on 8/7/92 be rescinded.
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The past practice of staff and the cognizant Subcommittee Chairmen editing be reinstated.
The staff prepare a Committee procedure that clearly states 3.
that any changes made to a Committee report must be approved by the cognizant Subcommittee Chairmen and must not change the Committee's intended meaning at the time it approved the report.
In cases where the staff and the cognizant Subcommittee Chairman cannot agree if a proposed change changes the Committee'c intended meaning, the Committee Chairman shall be consulted and shall resolve the disagreement.
In the case where he is the cognizant Subcommittee Chairman, the Vice Chairman'shall perform this function.
The procedure shall also state that the Subcommittee Chairman is ultimately responsible and accountable to the Committee for all changes that he approves.
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