United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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No. 98-33 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Wednesday, February 25, 1998)

NRC NAMES DR. GRAHAM B. WALLIS

TO ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACTOR SAFEGUARDS

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has appointed Dr. Graham B. Wallis to its

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS).

Dr. Wallis received his B.A. degree (with honors) in Mechanical Sciences from

Cambridge University in 1957; and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cambridge University. In

1959 he received his S.M. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he

studied Nuclear Reactor Theory and Engineering, Thermonuclear Processes, Fluid Mechanics,

Mathematics, and Two-Phase Flow Research .

Dr. Wallis is presently consulting for Creare, Inc. Since 1962 he has been on the faculty

at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, serving as Interim Dean from 1994

to 1995. He is currently the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering. He was a Visiting

Scholar at the Cambridge University, Department of Applied Math and Theoretical Physics and

the Department of Engineering in 1995; from 1989-1993 he was Associate Dean, Thayer

School of Engineering, Dartmouth, College. Dr. Wallis has held various teaching and research

positions at universities in England.

He has been an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering and of the

International Journal of Multiphase Flow.

The ACRS was established in 1957 by the Congress to advise the former Atomic

Energy Commission, and subsequently the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on the safety of

proposed and existing nuclear facilities and the adequacy of related safety standards. The

ACRS also performs such other special assignments as the Commission may request, such as

the review of NRC research programs.

A list of other ACRS members follows:

CHAIRMAN: Dr. Robert L. Seale, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear and Energy Engineering,

Department of Nuclear and Energy Engineering, College of Engineering and Mines, University

of Arizona, Tucson, AZ;

VICE-CHAIRMAN: Dr. Dana A. Powers, Manager, Nuclear Facilities Safety Department,

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM;
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Dr. George Apostolakis, Professor, Nuclear Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute

of Technology, Cambridge, MA;

Mr. John B. Barton, retired Vice-President, GPU Nuclear Corporation, Parsippany, NJ;

Dr. Mario H. Fontana, Adjunct Professor, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of

Tennessee, and retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN;

Dr. Thomas S. Kress, retired Head of Applied Systems Technology Section, Oak Ridge

National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN;

Dr. Don W. Miller, Professor and Chair, Nuclear Engineering, Department of Mechanical

Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;

Dr. William J. Shack, Associate Director, Energy Technology Division, Argonne National

Laboratory, Argonne, IL.

Dr. Robert E. Uhrig, Distinguished Professor, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of

Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Distinguished Scientist, I&C Division, Oak Ridge

National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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