Samuel Untermyer II
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Samuel Untermyer II, (1912 - 2001) was a United States nuclear engineer who theorised that steam bubble formation in a nuclear reactor core would not produce unsable reactions but would instead result in an inherently stable and self-controlling reactor design. He was responsible for the BORAX Experiments and in recognition of his fundamental development work on safe, water-cooled reactors the American Nuclear Society now has an award named after him for work in this field.
He was the grandson of Samuel Untermyer.
[edit] External links
- Samuel Untermyer II Award page at American Nuclear Society
- Obituary
- Chapter on Untermyer and the BORAX experiments in the Idaho National Laboratory's history Proving the Principle.
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