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UW-Madison: A Midwestern nucleus of fission and fusion
With more than six decades as a top-ranked program in its rearview, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics (NEEP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is hardly slowing down. In fact, NEEP is continuing to grow and develop its faculty, curriculum, and research.
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Senior Vice Present of Back-end Nuclear Technology Laboratory
KAERI
Dr. Min Hoon Baik is a Senior Vice President at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) with over 35 years experience in the R&D for the back-end nuclear fuel cycle technology. As a Senior Vice President of KAERI, he is managing all R&D activities of the Back-end Nuclear Technology Laboratory in KAERI including deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste, storage and transport of spent nuclear fuels, pyro-processing and recycling of spent nuclear fuels, decommissioning and clean-up of nuclear facilities, radiochemistry, and operation of reasech facilities for investigating irradiated nuclear fuels.
Dr. Baik holds a Ph.D degree of Nuclear Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). After graduation from KAIST in 1994, he has worked as a senor and principal researcher in the KAERI, mainly working in the radioactive waste disposal area such as geochemical behaviors of radionuclides, colloids, and microbes in the subsurface disposal environment. He published over 120 research papers. He also served as a Head of Radioactive Waste Disposal Division of KAERI. From this year, Dr. Baik also serves as the President of Korean Radioactive Waste Society which has over 4,000 members.
