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W. Kenneth Davis
W. Kenneth Davis
Pages 82-85
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KENNETH (Ken) DAVIS, a leader of the World Energy Council, former vice president of the National Academy of Engineering, former Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Bechtel Corporation executive, and one of the nation's most distinguished chemical engineers, died on July 29, 2005, at the age of 87 at his home in San Rafael, California.
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Ken became a corporate vice president at Bechtel Corporation in 1958 and was instrumental in developing the company's role in the rapidly emerging civilian nuclear industry. He was the first manager of Bechtel's Scientific Development Division, which was organized to provide the company with capabilities in applied research, development, and advanced engineering and the application of these skills, particularly in the electric power sector.
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Ken Davis was surely one of the "fathers" of the nuclear age and an influential leader, technologist, and statesman. Today, nuclear energy generates about one-fifth of the nation's electricity, and considering the effects and consequences of global warming, we are likely to become increasingly dependent on safe, reliable nuclear power.
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