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NMT Names New Division Director
Steve Younger, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear Weapons appointed long-time NMT employee Timothy G. George as the new NMT Division Director, effective Dec. 6, 1999. George came to the Laboratory as a metallurgist in 1983. In 1993 he became group leader of the Actinide Ceramics Group. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed the Radioisotope Heat Source Program Manager and Cassini Heat Source Production Project Leader. In October 1997 George became the project leader for the Nuclear Fuels Demonstrations portion of the Department of Energy¹s Nuclear Fuels Technologies Project. In this capacity he coordinated efforts to demonstrate the fabrication of mixed-oxide fuels. In April 1999 he accepted the position of acting Deputy Director of the division.

The new director says, "I'm honored that upper management has placed their confidence in me. The NMT facilities, people, and programs are truly national treasures."

Calls for Papers
Plutonium Futures-The Science: Submission deadline for papers is February 1, 2000. Information on the conference and on-line submission is on the Web at http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/nmt/nmtdo/PuConf2000/PuConf2000.html. The conference will be held in Santa Fe July 10-13, 2000.

American Nuclear Society­2000 Annual Meeting and Embedded Topical Meetings: Instructions and forms for preparation of paper summaries can be found on the Web at http://www.ans.org/meetings/. Completed summaries should be sent to subject category 10 (Materials Science and Technology). The conference will be held in San Diego June 4-8, 2000.

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