Edgar Buck

Profile Information
Name
Dr. Edgar Buck
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Position
Staff Scientist V
h-Index
33
ORCID
0000-0001-5101-9084
Biography
<p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">Dr. Edgar C. Buck has been staff scientist in the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qduSXT8fcIU&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=4m34s"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">Radiochemical Processing Laboratory</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif"> at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) since 2000. Prior to this he was at Argonne National Laboratory for nearly 10 years.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; He has over 70 publications and co-authored the Chapter on Uranium for the 3<sup>rd</sup> edition of the </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Actinide-Transactinide-Elements-Set/dp/1402035551"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">Chemistry of the Actinide and Transactinide Elements</span></i></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">.&nbsp; He has held other scientific leadership roles over time, including actinide migration and the waste form corrosion projects.&nbsp; </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">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.&nbsp; 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. </span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">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 <u>Waste Form and </u></span><a href="https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0907/ML090710181.pdf"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">In-drift Colloids-Associated Radionuclide Concentrations: Abstraction and Summary,</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif"> for the Yucca Mountain Repository License Application.&nbsp; </span></p><p> </p><p style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">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. &nbsp;He has mentored several postdocs, students, and junior staff over the past ten years. &nbsp;He is the </span><a href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1108475/overview"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">Specialty Chief Editor</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif"> on nuclear materials for a new Frontiers in Nuclear Technology journal and is leading a special issue on novel nuclear materials for the journal </span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/nuclear_fuel_disposal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">Materials</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 105%; font-family: &quot;Lucida Bright&quot;, serif">.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
Expertise
Actinide, LWR, Material Characterization, SEM, STEM
Publications:
"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.
Presentations:
" Microanalysis of Irradiated Metallic Hydride Nuclear fuel (U0.17 ZrH1.6) Fuels" Mehdi Balooch, Edgar Buck, Andy Casella, 2017 ANS Annual Meeting [unknown]