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Dear Mr. Neilands:
This refers' to your letter of May ' 0,1963' in which you asked several 2
questions concerning the Advisory Connaittee on Raaetor gafeguards.
. With reference to your first question, there are set out below brief accounts of the background and esperience of Messrs. Rogers and-Stratton and of Dr. Williams.
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Mr. Denald A. Rogers, presently a private consultant, was.
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Mr. Reuel C. gtratton, presently a consulting engineer, was
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chemical, engineering and nuclear research. Travelers In-I surance Companies with which he has been affiliated siuce 1919. He was Assistant Chief Chemist with New Departure Manufacturing Company from 1916 to 1917 and chemist with scoville Manufacturing Company in 1916 Mr. geratton, as a cossaissioned officer, served as Assistant Director of safety of the Office, Chief of Ordnance (Army). In this capacity ha 4
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Mr. Stratton represented the Joint Army-Navy Aassunition Storage Board during the investigation of catastrophes in-.
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Dr. Charles.R. Williams received his Ph.D. from Harvard' University in 1934.. He is Assistant Vice President, Liberty.-
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Dr. Williams is past president of the American Industrial-Hygiene ~ Association. He has been a member of the ACRS for
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Drd Williams' experience includes prevention of occupational disease from toxic materials and control of radiation exposure.
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Dear Mr. Neilands:
1 This refers to your letter of May 20, 1963 in which you asked several questions concerning the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards.
With. reference to your first question, there are set out below brief 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 recently associated with Allied Chemical Corporation.
He served as chemical engineer and Advisory Engineer of its Atmospheric Nitrogen and Solvay Process Divisions from-
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1959, and as Director of Project Analysis, Central Research I
Laboratory from 1959 to 1962. He was an instructor in
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Mr. Rogers has had 12 years experience in reactor safety matters as a member of the present statutory ACRS and the reactor safety advisory committees that preceded it.
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of high pressure systems and large-scale chemical processing "7
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He is a member of the Nuclear Subcommittee of the
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Mr. Reuel C. Stratton, presently a consulting engineer, was until recently Assistant Director of Research in charge of chemical, engineering and nuclear research Travelers In-surance Companies with which he has been affiliated since
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Mr. Stratton represented the Joint Army-Navy Ammunition Storage Board during the investigation of catastrophes in=
volving large quantities of explosives. _ For 12 years Mr.
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Stratton has been a member of the statutory ACRS and the reactor safety advisory committees which preceded the statutory ACRS.-
Dr. Charles R. Williams received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1934. He is Assistant Vice President, Liberty
'I Mutual Insurance Company (Director of Industrial Hygiana and Hanaging Director Hopkinton Research Center, Loss-Prevention '
Department). He is also Professor of Applied Industrial Eygiene at.the Harvard University School of Public Health.
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four and one-half years and is presently its Vice-Chairman.
Dr. Williams' experience includes prevention of occupational
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9 He has also worked extensively since 1947 on identification of fallout constituents. 'He-is a certified health physicist and y
industrial hygienist.
During the past several years the ABC has had research contracts with and made research grants to a large number of universities,.other institutions, J
a and individuals. The services of hundreds of consultants have also been J-engaged from time to time. The persons who have participated at one time or another in projects under AEC research and consulting contracts, and under grants, would'therefore number in the thousands and would include-some of the members of the ACRS.'
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