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My story: Abraham Weitzberg, ANS member since 1962
. . . and today.
Weitzberg then. . .
My first exposure to nuclear engineering was in 1956–57 when I was a fourth-year chemical engineering undergraduate at MIT. The previous summer, I worked at an oil refinery in New Jersey and our class visited a Monsanto sulfuric acid factory in Boston Harbor. I lost my enthusiasm for chemical engineering and decided to take a couple of introductory nuclear engineering courses as a senior. After a summer job at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, I started on a nuclear engineering master’s degree program. (An Atomic Energy Commission fellowship certainly helped my decision.)
The following summer, I performed reactor physics experiments at Brookhaven with Herb Kouts, Joe Hendrie, Rudy Sher, and Henry Windsor. In January 1962, after defending my Ph.D. dissertation on measuring uranium-238 capture in lattices of uranium rods in heavy water, I headed to Los Angeles to work on SNAP reactors for Atomics International. There, I performed critical experiments and managed their aerospace safety program.
August 24–28, 2014
Chicago, IL|Hyatt Regency Chicago
In cooperation with the World Council on Isotopes The Hyatt Regency Chicago, located at 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601, is the location for the 8th International Conference on Isotopes and Expo, where all meeting activities and technical sessions will be held. The special room rate for the meeting is $195.00/ per night (single/double). Reservations can be made online at: Hyatt Regency Chicago To register by phone for a guest room call 888-421-1442. Attendees must identify themselves as part of the American Nuclear Society to receive the group rate.
Honorary Chair:
Myung-Chul Lee (President, Korean Radioisotope Society)
General Chair:
Paul Dickman (Senior Policy Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory)
Assistant General Chair:
Nigel R. Stevenson (Clear Vascular, Inc.)
Program Chairs:
Rolf Zeisler (Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Standard and Technology)
Steve LaMont (Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
