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Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Fluor to serve as EPC contractor for Centrus’s Piketon plant expansion
The HALEU cascade at the American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio. (Photo: Centrus Energy)
American Centrifuge Operating, a subsidiary of Centrus Energy Corp., has formed a multiyear strategic collaboration with Fluor Corporation in which Fluor will serve as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for Centrus’s expansion of its uranium enrichment facility in Piketon, Ohio. Fluor will lead the engineering and design aspects of the American Centrifuge Plant’s expansion, manage the supply chain and procurement of key materials and services, oversee construction at the site, and support the commissioning of new capacity.
20th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-20)
Education: M,S, Ph.D. and Habilitation (D.Sc.) in Nuclear Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; MS in Mathematics, University of Warsaw.
Served on RPI faculty since 1980 (retired on June 30, 2020), as Professor, Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, and Director of Center for Multiphase Research. Also, was invited as a visiting professor to Oregon State University (1979-80) and MIT (2010-11).
Honors and Awards:
Technical expert for the US government and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Professional consultant for numerous institutions and industrial organizations in the US and overseas.
Gave a total of nearly 140 plenary and keynote lectures, seminars and other invited talks.
Author or co-author of over 360 peer-reviewed publications and books/book-chapters, including 70 archival papers published in the following journals:
Int. J. of Multiphase Flow, J. of Heat Transfer, Physics of Fluids, J. of Fluids Engineering, J. of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Int. J. - Heat and Technology, Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Int. J. - Chemical Engineering Communications, Archives of Thermodynamics, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Nanotechnology, Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics, J. of Power and Energy Systems, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Int. J. of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, Computers & Fluids, Nucl. Sci. and Eng., Nucl. Technology, Nucl. Eng. and Des., Nucl. Eng. and Technology, Atomkernenergie, Annals of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations.
Personal involvement in the NURETH conference series:
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