ML20199D737

Informs That Sh Levine Replaced by Mh Voth as Director of Reactor,Effective on 860601

ML20199D737
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Site:	Pennsylvania State University
Issue date:	06/10/1986
From:	Hosler C PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV., UNIVERSITY PARK, PA
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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THE P E N N S Y LVA NI A ST ATE ~ UNIVERSITY VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCli AND DEAN OF Ti1E GRADUATE SCHOOL 114 KERN GRADUATE BUILDING UNIVERSITY PARK, PA 16802 C. L. Hosler Telephone:

Vice President and Dean 814-865-2516 814-865-6331 June 10, 1986 Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission j Washington, DC 20555

Dear Sir:

In accordance with Technical Specification 6.6.2b(1) of the Penn State Breazeale Reactor, Operating License R-2, Docket Number 50-005, we wish to inform you of a change in the administration.

., Effective June 1, 1986, Dr. Marcus H. Voth assumed the position of Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director of the Penn State Breazeale Reactor. He replaced Dr. Samuel H. Levine, who served as Director for the past 18 years. Dr. Levine will continue to pursue full-time teaching and research as a Professor of Nuclear Engineering.

Dr. Voth is eminently qualified for his new position, as evidenced by the attached press release. He previously held a Senior Reactor Operator's License (Number 3527) at another research reactor. In the first quarter of 1987 he expects to stand for his SRO at the Penn State Breazeale Reactor.

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLK INFORMATION 312 OLD MAIN BLDG., UNIVER$1TY PARK. PENN5YLVANIA 16802 / TILipHONE B14 865 7517 l }

For Immediate Release

Contact:

Ellen Willoughby (814) 863-2132 (office)

(814) 234-0433 (home) or Marcus Schneck: (814) 865-7517 (office)

(814) 237-9107 (home)

MARCUS VOTH NAMED DIRECTOR OF BREAZEALE NUCLEAR REACTOR University Park, Pa.---Dr. Marcus'5. Voth has been appointed director of the Breazeale Nuclear Reactor at.The Pennsylvania State University.

The reactor is the longest operating university reactor in the country and recently was relicensed for another 20 years by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The reactor began operation in 1955.

Also named associate professor of nuclear engineering, Voth is responsible for the technical operation, administrative operation and management of the reactor facility, which includes the Low-Level Radiation Monitoring Laboratory and the Radio-nuclear Applications Laboratory.

Voth earned doctoral and master's degrees in nuclear engineering from Penn State. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Valparaiso University.

In addition to teaching nuclear engineering at Penn State since 1983, Voth has conducted labs in radiation protection and measurement techniques and has lectured for the Public Involvement and Education on Radiation (PIER) program.

Voth was manager of nuclear operations for the Medical

Products Division of the Union Carbide Corp., Tuxedo, N.Y., for five years prior to coming to Penn State. This five megawatt research reactor makes approximately half of the free world's supply of medical isotopes, said Voth, and is the only major supplier of reactor-produced medical isotopes in the country.

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- From 1971-78, Voth was a nuclear safety and technical engineer with the Northern States Power Company in Minnesota. For four years prior to that, he worked for Northern

! States as station nuclear engineer for the Monticello Nuclear

Power Plant, where he was involved in the startup of the plant and the initial phase of commercial operations.

Voth said that increased utilization of the Breazeale Reactor facility and maintenance of its unmarked safety record are his chief priorities. Currently, personnel from 16 different University departments conduct research at the reactor, but, he

said, the potential exists for additional use.

"We also want to work with industry and government to build on outside research support," he said. "I'd like to build on our strengths in neutron radiography, activation analysis, and

. low-level radiation monitoring, as well as emphasize research for new techniques and assist the researchers who have use for those techniques."

The Breazeale Reactor is "very highly respected as a research reactor," said Voth. "It has more capability than the majority of the nation's university research reactors.

"The Breazeale Reactor has been a pioneer and leader within i the research reactor community and I consider it an honor to be appointed director," said Voth. "I look forward to working with the reactor staff in carrying on that tradition."

Voth is a member of the American Nuclear Society, several honor societies, and is a registered professional engineer in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. He also has been active in the Test J

Research and Training Reactor Managers organization.

A resident of State College, Voth and his wife, Karen, have three children. He is president of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in State College.

Voth replaces Dr. Samuel Levine, who had been director of the reactor for 18 years. Levine has returned to full-time teaching and research as a professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State.

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