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Remembering Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till
Charles E. Till, an ANS member since 1963 and Fellow since 1987, passed away on March 22 at the age of 89. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Imperial College, University of London. Till initially worked for the Civilian Atomic Power Department of the Canadian General Electric Company, where he was the physicist in charge of the startup of the first prototype CANDU reactor in Canada.
Till joined Argonne National Laboratory in 1963 in the Applied Physics Division, where he worked as an experimentalist in the Fast Critical Experiments program. He then moved to additional positions of increasing responsibility, becoming division director in 1973. Under his leadership, the Applied Physics Division established itself as one of the elite reactor physics organizations in the world. Both the experimental (critical experiments and nuclear data measurements) and nuclear analysis methods work were internationally recognized. Till led Argonne’s participation in the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE), and he was the lead U.S. delegate to INFCE Working Group 5, Fast Breeders.
Dr. Nunzio J. Palladino was the 16th president of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). He was a member of the Society since its start in 1954 and elevated to a Fellow of ANS in 1964.
Dr. Palladino served as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1986.
Dr. Nunzio Palladino was born on November 10, 1916. From 1959 until his appointment to NRC in 1981, Dr. Palladino was a member of the faculty at Pennsylvania State University. He served as the first head of the department of the Nuclear Engineering Department there. In that capacity, he was responsible for development and implementation of course work and graduate programs and research in nuclear engineering. He became Dean of the College of Engineering in 1966 and served in that capacity until he joined the NRC in 1981.
He worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for 20 years before going to Penn State, including four years on loan to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory. In 1950-59, while working at Westinghouse, Dr. Palladino was in charge of reactor core design for the Submarine Prototype Reactor, Mark I; for the Nautilus Reactor; and for the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. In World War II he was a captain in the Army and served in Europe.
Dr. Palladino served on many committees including the Governor’s Energy Council and the Governor’s Science Advisory Committee for which he chaired the Energy Management Subcommittee; member and chairman of both the Pennsylvania Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy Development and Radiation Control and the U.S. Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards which reviews all nuclear plants proposed for construction and operation in the United States. He was also a member of the Governor’s Commission on Three Mile Island, and participated on a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Special Task Force to evaluate the clean-up activities at Three Mile Island, which culminated in the preparation of a report submitted to the NRC Commissioners. He was also a member of the National Nuclear Accrediting Board for several years.
In 1958 he was awarded the Westinghouse Order of Merit for Technical Direction of Reactor Designs of the Nautilus and Shippingport power plants; in 1956 he received the Prime Movers award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his work on the Shippingport plant.
Dr. Palladino received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University in 1938 and 1939. In addition, he did graduate work in nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee and in business and management at the University of Pittsburgh. Lehigh University awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1964.
Dr. Nunzio Palladino passed away on December 12, 1999.
Read Nuclear News from July 1970 for more on N. J. Palladino.
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