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HANS K. FAUSKE
Pages 110-115

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... Before leaving ANL in 1980, he served for two years as director of the DOE Fast Reactor Safety Technology Management Center; he was responsible for the planning and management of the US programs and recognized as a world authority on fast breeder reactor safety. During this period he also chaired the Argonne National Laboratory Committee A, which was responsible for the hiring and promotion of scientific and engineering staff.
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From page 112...
... His career included roles involving many aspects of both chemical and nuclear reactor safety: • He was senior consultant to the Nuclear Industry Degraded Core Rulemaking program that followed the accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 plant. He had a leadership role in initiating the MAAP computer code that is used by utilities around the world to assess possi ble accident behavior, and how to counter that behavior, for commercial water-cooled nuclear power plants.
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... He served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, the International Journal of Multi-Phase Flow, and the AIChE Process Safety Progress Journal. He published more than 200 scientific articles and held numerous patents in the areas of nuclear and chemical process safety.
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From page 114...
... He was generous with his time, a patient mentor, and modest despite his substantial accomplishments. When not engaging with his family, his favorite place to be was solving problems at his white board, continuously writing equations for understanding and predicting important physical phenomena.
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