Edgar Buck
- Name
- Dr. Edgar Buck
- Institution
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Position
- Staff Scientist V
- h-Index
- 33
- ORCID
- 0000-0001-5101-9084
- Biography
Dr. Edgar C. Buck has been staff scientist in the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) since 2000. Prior to this he was at Argonne National Laboratory for nearly 10 years. He managed several projects within PNNL’s Nuclear Processing Science Initiative to develop new advanced microscopy tools, including in-situ liquid cell and cryoEM for nuclear sciences. He has been the Program Manager for a DOE-NE project supporting research for geologic disposal since 2009 and is Principal Investigator for a Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) project on signature development, as well as several other smaller projects. He has over 70 publications and co-authored the Chapter on Uranium for the 3rd edition of the Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements. He has held other scientific leadership roles over time, including actinide migration and the waste form corrosion projects.
Dr. Buck is knowledgeable in the interaction of electron beams with matter, electron and x-ray instrumentation, and materials science with an emphasis on radioactive materials. He has expertise in the long-term behavior of nuclear materials, including spent nuclear fuels, borosilicate glass, radio-colloids, and post-irradiation examination of reactor components.
He was part of a team that was awarded the DOE Secretary of Energy Honor Award for work conducted on the WIPP accident in 2014 and was the lead author on the Waste Form and In-drift Colloids-Associated Radionuclide Concentrations: Abstraction and Summary, for the Yucca Mountain Repository License Application.
He has taught a graduate level course in electron microscopy at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities and is currently an adjunct professor at WSU. He has mentored several postdocs, students, and junior staff over the past ten years. He is the Specialty Chief Editor on nuclear materials for a new Frontiers in Nuclear Technology journal and is leading a special issue on novel nuclear materials for the journal Materials.
- Expertise
- Actinide, LWR, Material Characterization, PIE, SEM, STEM
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"Performance evaluation and post-irradiation examination of a novel LWR fuel composed of U0.17ZrH1.6 fuel pellets bonded to Zircaloy-2 cladding by lead bismuth eutectic"
Mehdi Balooch, Edgar Buck, Andy Casella, Peter Hosemann, Donald Olander, Dave Senor, Kurt Terrani,
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Vol. 486
2017
391-401
Link
A novel light water reactor fuel has been designed and fabricated at the University of California, Berkeley; irradiated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor; and examined within the Radiochemical Processing Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This fuel consists of U0.17ZrH1.6 fuel pellets core-drilled from TRIGA reactor fuel elements that are clad in Zircaloy-2 and bonded with lead-bismuth eutectic. The performance evaluation and post irradiation examination of this fuel are presented here. |
| " Microanalysis of Irradiated Metallic Hydride Nuclear fuel (U0.17 ZrH1.6) Fuels" Mehdi Balooch, Edgar Buck, Andy Casella, 2017 ANS Annual Meeting [unknown] |
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