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Can hydrogen be the transportation fuel in an otherwise nuclear economy?
Let’s face it: The global economy should be powered primarily by nuclear power. And it probably will by the end of this century, with a still-significant assist from renewables and hydro. Once nuclear systems are dominant, the costs come down to where gas is now; and when carbon emissions are reduced to a small portion of their present state, it will become obvious that most other sources are only good in niche settings. I mean, why use small modular reactors to load-follow when they can just produce that power instead of buffering it?
Dr. Bertram Wolfe was the 32nd president of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Dr. Bertram joined ANS in 1956. In 1970, he was elevated to Fellow of ANS. During his membership years with ANS he received numerous awards: the Walter Zinn Technical Accomplishment Award in 1990; the Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award in 1992; and the Tommy Thompson Nuclear Safety Award in 1997.
Dr. Wolfe was born on June 6, 1927. He worked in almost all technical phases of peaceful nuclear power and had responsibility for a number of successful nuclear reactor projects. In 1987 he was appointed a vice president of GE and manager of its Nuclear Energy Division, which under his leadership became a highly successful enterprise. He retired from General Electric (GE) in 1992 as a vice president and general manager of GE’s Nuclear Energy Department after a career of over 35 years with GE.
Following his retirement from GE, he served as an independent consultant in the fields of business, energy, and nuclear energy. He also served on several corporate and university committees, including the Boards of Directors of Houston Industries and Houston Lighting and Power Co., and the Boards of Urenco Inc. and Urenco Investments Inc., and academic advisory committees at the University of California at Berkeley and Texas A & M. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
Dr. Wolfe graduated from the Bronx High School and Science, and received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1950 and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Cornell University in 1954.
Dr. Bertram Wolfe passed away on September 6, 2004.
Read Nuclear News from July 1986 for more on Bertram.
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