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CTEdwards:bsb DLR 6/3/63 l
4 Mr. J. B. Neilands i
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Berkeley, California I
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Dear'Mr. Neilands:
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This refers to your letter of May 20, 1963 in which you asked i
several questions concerning the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safe-4 guards.
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With reference to your first question,a set out below are brief i
j accounts of the background and experience of Messrs. Rogers and Stratton and of Dr. Williams.
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Mr. Donald A. Rogers, presently a private consultant, was until
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recently, Director of Project Analysis, Central Research Laboratory, Allied Chemical Corporation with which he had been affiliated since 1940.
He was a chemical engineer and advisory engineer with the
, u.;.g Atmospheric Nitrogen Corporation and Solvay Process Company
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at Cornell University from 1922 b 1924. Mr. Rogers has had 12 J-)
years experience in reactor safety matters as a mamber of the ACRS and of the reactor Safety Committees which preceeded the statutory ACRS.
Dr. Charles R. Williams received his PHD from Harvard University in 1934 He is Assistant Vice President and
... a Director of Indhstrial Hygiene Services in the Loss-Preventiaa Department of I.iberty Mutual Insurance Company.
He is also Associate Professor of Applied Hygiene at the Harvard University, 1
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Mr. J B. Neilands School of Public Health.
Dr. Williams is past president of
. the American Industrial Eygiene Association He has been-a member of the ACRS for four and a-half years and is presently its vice-chairman.
Mr. Reuel C. Stratton a chemical engineer, has been with Travelers l'
Insurance Company since 1919. He is Assistant Director.of
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Research (Chemical and Nuclear). He was Assistant Chief Chemist l
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with New Departure Manufacturing Company from 1916 to 1917
-and chemist with Scoville Manufacturing Company im 1916
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Assistant Director of Safety of the Office, Chief'of Ordnance (Army),
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he directed the safety engineering service in all plants, both r
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Ordnanco jurisdiction, within which explosives, ammunition or 1
pyrotechnics were_ manufactured, loaded, tested or stored. Vr.
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Stratton represented the Joint Army-Navy Ammunition Storage Board SJ during the investigation of catastrophes involving large quantities of explosives. For 12 years Mr. Stratton has been a member of the AC7) and the Reactor Safety Committee which preceeded the ACRS.
lithough we have not conducted a search of the records in that i
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reEard, it is probable that a number of the ' members of t h'e ACRS i
have previously served as consultants or advisors to the. Atomic Energy Commission and it is equally probable that a number of them, including those mentioned by you, have been the recipients of grants or contracts etc. as stated by you.
It appears germane to point out that although the ACnS is a statutory committee its members are subject to Federal law con-cerning conflict of interest.
l Sincerely yours, i
Robert Lowenstein, Director Division of Licensing and Regulation
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