A. Hassan, Dept. Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3133 Tamu, College Station, TX 77843-3133, USA
Professor Hassan has been at Texas A&M University, College
Station, since 1986. He is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received
his Ph.D. and MS in nuclear engineering from University of Illinois, and MS in mechanical engineering from University of Virginia. Prior
to his academic career, he was principal engineer (1980-1986) at Babcock & Wilcox Company's Nuclear Power Division in Virginia. Hassan
has authored/co-authored over 100 refereed papers in various journals and several chapters in books. Hassan is a registered professional
engineer in Texas and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Nuclear Society (ANS). He is also
a member of several other societies, and chair of Nuclear Engineering of ASME. Hassan was the recipient of the George Westinghouse Gold
Medal of ASME and Arthur Holly Compton Award of ANS. He has given invited lectures and short courses in the United States, Italy, Japan,
Korea, Netherlands, Belgium and Mexico. Hassan's research interest is in the areas of computational and experimental fluid mechanics
and turbulence, two-phase flow, laser-based flow visualization and diagnostic imaging techniques, and system modeling.
J. Chao, United Nuclear Inc, PO Box 761, Los Altos, CA 94203, USA
Dr Chao is currently a Chief Scientist at United Nuclear Inc, and a Chair
Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT, his MA in Nuclear Physics from University
of Texas-Austin, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Mechanical Engineering in California.
Dr Chao managed the Nuclear
Analysis Methods at EPRI for 23 years. Nuclear Analysis Methods comprise Reactor Physics, Thermal Hydraulics, Severe Accidents, and analysis
of abnormal occurrences and accidents at nuclear plants, including the events at the Prairie Island SGTR and Chernobyl. Dr Chao was the
project manager for the severe accident analysis tool, the MAAP4 and MAAP5 codes, which are now used worldwide. He has knowledge of
RELAP5, CORETRAN, RETRAN02, RETRAN03, VIPRE, COBRA, GOTHIC, COMMIX, ANISN, SIMULATE, CASMO, CPM-3, etc. He has also reviewed PRA projects,
material damage caused by radiation, safety analyses of new designs, MHD, and Fusion Reactor Blanket Designs.
Dr Chao has been
the Secretary for the Thermal Hydraulics Division of the American Nuclear Society and was the founder of the NUTHOS (Nuclear Thermal
Hydraulics, Operations and Safety) series of meetings. He was the 1994 recipient of the Presidential Citation from ANS for his research
activity in technology transfer.
G. Lohnert, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Professor Lohnert received his university education in the
United States of America. Shortly before entering Carnegie Tech he had been granted a Fulbright fellowship of one year. He had his first
insight into nuclear reactors while in training at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. He then started to study plasma physics and nuclear sciences
at the University of Florida on a 5-year scholarship from the US Navy. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1970 in the field of "Positron
Annihilation in a Plasma". While employed in the field of reactor physics first by the Brown Bovery Company and later by Siemens/Germany,
he frequently visited his alma mater to lecture in this field. In 1978 the University of Florida awarded him the post of "Permanent
Visiting Associated Professor". From 1972 until 1991 he was worked for Siemens and became Head of the 'HTR Reactor Safety' department
in 1979.
Professor Lohnert has over 30 years experience in nuclear reactor sciences with emphasis on nuclear safety, nuclear physics
and nuclear plant layout. He is the co-inventor of the Modular HTR-MODUL, an inherently safe power reactor, which now is the most promising
and advanced reactor of all Generation IV reactors, and for which he holds the basic patents. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed
papers in international scientific journals as an author and co-author, many papers dealing with crucial and fundamental issues related
to an inherently safe modular HTR. While employed by Siemens/Interatom, Professor Lohnert was responsible for all issues related to nuclear
safety and nuclear physics during the licensing procedures of the HTR-Module conducted by Siemens in Lower Saxony during 1987 -1989.
He has lectured extensively on HTR-physics and HTR-safety at Universities in Florida, Bogota and Tokyo, and has frequently visited the
Nuclear Institute INET at Tsinghua University of Peking and the Nuclear Institute in Jakarta.
In 1991 Professor Lohnert moved
to Paris and joined the French/German team at FRAMATOME/NPI to work on the European Pressurized Water Reactor, as manager for 'Severe
Accidents'. In mid-1997 he was appointed full professor of Nuclear Sciences at the University of Stuttgart, a post that incorporates
directorship of the "Institute of Nuclear Engineering and Energy Systems (IKE)", which is the largest nuclear institute at
a German university. Professor Lohnert lectures three graduate courses in the field of nuclear sciences and reactor physics, and currently supervises more than 10 Ph.D theses in the field of nuclear reactors.
In 2001 Professor Lohnert was named member of the Technical
Subcommittee on the PBMR Pebble Bed Modular Reactor of South Africa/Centurion-Johannesburg. He is Chair Professor at the Tsinghua University
of Peking and Advisory Professor at the Jiao Tong University Shanghai. He is a member of the Executive Board of the German Nuclear Society
as well as a member of the German Reactor Safety Advisory Board.
In January 2001 Professor Lohnert was officially appointed as
Principal Editor of NED.
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