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IPO Recognizes Uranium Chemical Process Team

The Industrial Partnership Office has given a Recognition Award for Outstanding Achievements in Industrial Partnerships to the Uranium Chemical Process Team (Moses Attrep and Kent Abner, CST-11; Mike West, MST-5; Keith Axler, NMT-5; Dan Knobeloch, MST-5; and John Fitzpatrick, CST-7) for their many contributions to technology transfer and industrial partnerships. The team was nominated for their, "sustained efforts and continuous, high-quality technology development in the area of uranium chemistry."

Pete Lyons, IPO Director, also cited the team for initiating several technology transfer programs, "to leverage technology demonstrations, funded by the DOE, for site cleanup and residue treatment of legacy material generated during the weapons production effort over the last fifty years." Among accomplishments listed were memoranda of understanding with Fluor Daniel Incorporated and Nuclear Fuel Services as well as a users' facility agreement for TA-48.

Employees Win Waste Minimization Award

Dennis Padilla and Laura Worl of NMT-6 join ESA-EPE employees Coyne Prenger and Dallas Hill and Tom Tolt of Lockheed in accepting a first-place award under the Pollution Prevention Awards Program, Large-Scale Operations category. The winning entry was "Magnetic Separation for Treatment of TA-55 Caustic Waste." This procedure will selectively extract actinide contaminants from caustic liquid waste streams thereby reducing or removing levels below the industrial waste water discharge limits. The technology has been successful on a bench scale.

Jeoff Urioste of the Pollution Prevention Program Office congratulated all Award Program entrants and encouraged them to continue their efforts and implement their ideas.

NMT Seeks Productive Interactions with Universities

NMT Division and the Nuclear Materials and Stockpile Management (NMSM) Programs Office have jointly initiated a recruiting effort for postdoctoral research associates with required training and skills in the areas of metallurgy and materials science and engineering. Paul Cunningham, NMSM Program Director, says, "We need to be in the thoughts and minds of professors and students," principally at institutions that have supplied excellent postdocs over the years." The division is making a number of contacts with university colleagues and the division's review committee members to solicit their support for recruiting the best talents nationwide in these disciplines. The division hopes to bring on board up to three postdoctoral fellows within this fiscal year.

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