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Harold Etherington
Pages 84-89

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... When he moved to the United States in September 1939 with his wife and son, Geoffrey, the trip was almost fatal. They arrived aboard the oceanliner Athena, which had been torpedoed by a German submarine during the voyage, resulting in the death of hundreds of passengers.
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From page 86...
... From 1948 to 1953, as director of the Naval Reactors Division at Argonne National Laboratory, he made major contributions to the early basic reactor design for the United States Nav,v's first atomic-powered submarine, the Nautilus. From 1953 to 1959 he served as vice-president, Nuclear Products Division, ACE Industries.
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From page 87...
... When the steam-line break problem A, was brought up without prior warning at the ACRS meeting on the Prairie Island nuclear power plants, Harold was able to perform a back-of-the-envelope calculation within several minutes, which macle it clear that a threat to plant safely existed. Similarly, in 1966, the "China Synclrome" issue was brought into the ACRS review of the Indian Point ~ and Dresden 3 nuclear power plants, without benefit of any meaningful estimate of the potential course and consequences of a large-scale core melt.
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... You are always gentlemanly, but ready with a strong comment when it is needed. You can be counted on to furnish authoritative opinion and information from your broad field of personal expertise, but you also reliably provide balanced mature perspectives on the whole range of Committee deliberations from a deep personal resource of wisdom and common sense." We who knew him will all miss Harold Etherington.
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