International Beryllium Corporation reports the IBC nuclear fuels advisory board is created and has appointed Dr. Alvin Solomon, Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University, as the board’s first member.

Dr. Solomon is a highly respected international authority on nuclear fuels and the leading international expert on high thermal conductivity uranium oxide beryllium oxide (UO2 – BeO) nuclear fuels specifically. His academic career includes undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Illinois followed by a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford University. After spending five years at Argonne National Laboratory on nuclear fuels research, he then joined the faculty of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University where his pioneering work caught the attention of both the scientific community as well as the nuclear power industry as they endeavored to create a safer and more efficient nuclear fuel.

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