Memorial Tributes Volume 25 (2023) / Chapter Skim
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MAX W. CARBON
MAX W. CARBON
Pages 46-49
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From February 1949 until September 1955, he worked at the General Electric Company's Hanford Works in Richland, Washington, producing plutonium for atomic and hydrogen bombs used for national defense. His primary duty was as head of the heat transfer group, which was responsible for the safety analysis, operating limits, and cooling technology that allowed for increased plutonium production and extended reactor lifetimes.
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as head of its thermodynamics section, successfully designing the nose cone for the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile. Max came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958 to establish a nuclear engineering program as part of a growing postwar research emphasis on designing better, more efficient nuclear power plants for generating electricity.
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; the IFR was a pioneering design by Argonne National Laboratory that evolved into the GE Prism and Terrapower Natrium reactor designs. Max's honors include being named a fellow of the American Nuclear Society in 1975 and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
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