NORBERT R. GRANT

120 Grandcove Lane
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

SUMMARY

1. 1975 to 1992 - Robotics and Process Systems Division (formerly Fuel Recycle Division), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
   
   From October 1986 to August 1992 (at which time I retired), I was the Program Control Manager for the Robotics and Process Systems Division (RPSD) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The RPSD develops all types of remote handling equipment and is responsible for developing nuclear fuel reprocessing equipment and facilities for spent fast breeder reactor fuel.
   
   Previously I was Manager of the Systems Development Group in the Engineering Systems Section. The Section designed and developed the equipment for such a reprocessing facility. This group was responsible for the mechanical portion of the equipment. This included all of the remote handling items such as servomanipulators, and transporters, television systems.

2. 1966 to 1975 - Hot Fuels Examination Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
   
   

   Operations manager for a complex of large hot cells performing examinations of experimental fuel and structural tests irradiated in the Experimental Breeder Reactor-II (EBR-II).

3. 1960 to 1966 - Reactor Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.
   

   Liaison Engineer for fabrication of the first and subsequent cores for EBR- II, and designer for the first experimental subassemblies used in the reactor.

4. 1955 to 1960 - Reactor Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois. Performed corrosion studies on cladding and structural materials used in boiling water reactors.

Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, in 1952. Post-graduate work in chemical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, from 1956 to 1961.

Personal Information

Member of and active in the American Nuclear Society (ANS), nationally and locally. This includes being on the Executive Committee and an officer in the Remote Systems Technology Division (RSTD) from 1977 to 1985; Program Chair for the 26th RSTD meeting at the ANS Winter meeting in 1978; General Chair of an ANS topical meeting in Gatlinburg in 1984; two ANS Executive Conferences in Pine Mountain, Georgia, in 1985 as Technical Program Chair and in 1992 as General Chair; Program Chair for the Los Angeles National ANS Winter Meeting in 1987; Program Chair for the Nashville National ANS Summer Meeting in June 1990; General Chair for ANS topical meeting on robotics and remote handling held in Knoxville in April 1993. Member of the National Program Committee for ANS from 1986 to 1992. Member of the ANS Oak Ridge/Knoxville Section Executive Committee since 1994.

I am also active in the Holston Rose Society (treasurer for over ten years). I am a member of the American Rose Society. I have been on the Board of Directors for the East Tennessee Opera Guild since 1994.

I am married and have two children and two grandchildren (all in Florida).