Edgar Buck

Affiliation

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Biography

Ph.D. (1991) in Materials Science, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. M.Sc. (1986) in Radiochemistry and Radiation Chemistry, University of Salford, United Kingdom. Staff Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory May 1991 until October 2000 Staff Scientist at Pascific Northwest National Laboratory October 2000 to present. Knowledgeable in the interaction of electron beams with matter, electron and x-ray instrumentation, and materials science. Expertise in the long-term behavior of nuclear materials; including oxide spent nuclear fuels, borosilicate glass and ceramic waste forms, radio-colloids, and materials for tritium production. Is currently Program Manager for the Used Fuel Disposition Project under the Fuel Recycle Research & Development program. Co-authored a special issue in the MRS bulletin on actinide spectroscopy and the chapter on uranium for the 3rd edition of the Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements. Chief scientist for an MTO-DARPA project developing radioisotope power sources. Was the lead author on the Waste Form and In-drift Colloids-Associated Radionuclide Concentrations: Abstraction and Summary, MDL-EBS-PA-000004 for the Yucca Mountain Repository License Application. Conducted data interpretation and collection for the Hanford Waste Treatment Project intermittently for more than 8 years and worked on Post-Irradiation Analysis of nuclear components for more than 6 years. Developed and taught a graduate level course in electron microscopy at WSU Tri-Cities.