Name: Dr. Hans K. Fauske
Title: President

Education: D. Sc. from the Norwegian Institute of Technology

Hans K. Fauske is President of Fauske & Associates, LLC, a Westinghouse Electric Company. Since leaving Argonne National Laboratory in 1980 where he served as the first Director of the Fast Reactor Safety Technology Management Center and was responsible for the planning and management of the DOE program, he has been involved in projects covering a wide range of safety issues. He served as a Senior Consultant to the Industry Degraded Core Rulemaking program (IDCOR) and as a Senior Technical Advisor to the Clinch River Breeder Project. He also provided overall technical direction for the AIChE Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS), which was funded by 28 chemical firms in the U.S.A. and abroad. Currently, he is performing a key role in resolving potential safety issues in connection with the waste storage tanks at the Hanford site and the development of inherently safe nuclear and chemical process reactor concepts.

Dr. Fauske has published more than 200 scientific articles and holds numerous patents in the areas of nuclear and chemical process safety. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries and the International Journal of Multi-Phase Flow. He has taught at several universities in the U.S.A. and abroad and served as the sixth BASF Renowned Scientist Lecturer from 1989 to 1990. He is a fellow of both the American Nuclear Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 1975, he became the first person in the field of reactor technology to receive the University of Chicago Medal for Distinguished Performance at Argonne National Laboratory. In 1982, he became the third recipient of the Tommy Thompson Award, the highest honor that the American Nuclear Society bestows in the field of reactor safety. In 1991, he received the ANS Thermal-Hydraulics Division Technical Achievement Award, in 1992 the prestigious AIChE Donald Q. Kern Award for his significant contributions in the area of nuclear and chemical process safety, and in 1996 the AIChE Robert E. Wilson Award in Nuclear Chemical Engineering for his leadership and contributions in developing methods to help assure safety in the nuclear power and chemical process industries.

Name: Dr. Robert E. Henry
Title: Senior Vice President

Education: University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 1967

Dr. Robert E. Henry is a Senior Vice President and co-founder of FAI. In 1980, Dr. Henry was involved in the Zion and Indian Point Probabilistic Safety Studies as well as the Limerick Probabilistic Risk Assessment. More recently, Dr. Henry made numerous contributions to the Industry Degraded Core Rulemaking Program in which FAI was responsible for developing computer codes to analyze the response of pressurized and boiling light water reactors during severe accidents. The Modular Accident Analysis Program (MAAP) has gained widespread acceptance in the domestic and foreign nuclear industry. The program specifically treats such phenomena as concrete attack, hydrogen formation, distribution and combustion within the containment, debris distribution, debris bed coolability, and fission product behavior. Dr. Henry was also the Manager for the Issue Resolution and Individual Plant Evaluation Tasks in the IDCOR Phase II Program which culminated with the Individual Plant Evaluation Methodology (IPEM). During the IDCOR Program, he was one of the industry representatives in the U.S. delegation to IAEA/Vienna to evaluate the Russian interpretation of the Chernobyl Unit 4 accident. Following Chernobyl, Dr. Henry served on review panels for both the N-Reactor and the Savannah reactors with respect to potential severe accident conditions.

Dr. Henry held a number of responsible research and development positions at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) from 1969 to 1980. In March, 1979, he was appointed Associate Director of the Reactor Analysis and Safety Division, and was involved in the evaluation of the Three Mile Island-2 accident as part of the group formed by the Electric Power Research Institute's Nuclear Safety Analysis Center (NSAC).

Dr. Henry has published more than 100 articles in the areas of nuclear safety and engineering. In 1985, Dr. Henry received the Tommy Thompson Award: The highest honor the American Nuclear Society gives in the field of reactor safety. Dr. Henry also received an Award for Outstanding Engineering Accomplishment from the College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, in 1990. Dr. Henry is a member of the American Nuclear Society and a Non-Resident Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department from 1973 to 1978 and served as Dean of the Graduate School from 1978 to 1979 at Midwest College of Engineering.