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50-205 Mr. J. B. Neilands 185 Hill Road Berkeley, California
Dear Mr. Neilands:
This refers to your letter of May 20, 1963 in which you asked several
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questions concerning the Advisory Committee on Raactor Safeguards, l
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With reference to your first question, there are set out below brief l
accounts of the background and experience of Messrs. Rogers and stratton and of Dr. Williams.
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y j 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 1924 to 1951, as Manager of Central Engineering from 1951 to 1959, and as Eirector of Project Analysis, Central Research
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Laboratory from 1959 to 1962. He was an'. instructor in l
h mechanical engineering at Cornell University from 1922 to 1924. Mr. Rogers has had 12 years experience in reactor I
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safety matters as a member of the present statutory ACRS I
and the reactor safety advisory committees that preceded J
JM it. Mr. Rogers' special fields include' design and operation 7j of high pressure systems and large-scale chemical processing plants. He is a siember of the Nuclear Subcomunittee of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel. Committee.
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Mr. Reuel C. Stratton, presently a consulting engineer, was until recently Assistant Director of Research in charge of
- l chemical, engineering and nuclear research, Travelers In-surance Companies with which he has been affiliated since 1919. He was Assistant Chief Chemist with New Departure Manufacturing Company from 1916 to 1917 and chemist with Scoville Manufacturing Company in 1916. Mr. Stratton, ' as a commissioned officar, served as Assistant Director of Safety of the Office, Chief of Ordne.nce (Army). In this capacity ha TfsmI8sa st wed
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directed the safety engineering service in all plants, both government and privately orned, subject to Office, Chief of Ordnance jurisdiction, within which explosives, l
ammunition, or pyrotechnics were manufactured, loaded, I
tested or stored. Mr. Stratton represented the Joint
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Army-Navy Ammuniton Storage Board during the investi-gation of catastrophes involving large quantities of' explosives. For 12 years Mr. Stratton has been a member-
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I of the statutory ACRS and the reactor safety advisory couanittees which preceded the statutory ACRS.
Dr. Charles R. Williams received his PH.D. from Harvard
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University in 1934 He is Assistant Vice President, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (Director of Industrial ry
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Applied Industrial Hygiene at the Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Williams is past president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. He has-been a member of the ACRS for four and one-half years.
and is presently its Vice-Chairman. Dr. Williams'.ex-
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perience includes prevention of occupational disease hf from toxic materials and control of radiation exposure.
9 He has also worked extensively since 1947 on identifica-tion of fallout constituents.. He is a certified health physicist and industrial hygienist.
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You have inquired whether certain of the members of the ACRS "have F7 aver been the direct or indirect, through the Universities or-
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institutions with which they are associated,' recipient'of grants or 3
contracts for research, teaching or any other purpose, from the AEC."
You also ask how many members of the present staff of the ACRS have previously served as consultants or advisors to the AEC. During the past several years the AEC has had research contracts with and J
has made research grants to a large number of Universities and other organizations. The services of hundreds of consultants have also been 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.
With specific reference to the present members of the ACRS, all of the fin you have named, in numbered paragraphitwo of your letter, 9
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employees of Commission' contractors.
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