Charles D. Bowman

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Charles D. Bowman (born May 23, 1935 in Roanoke , Virginia ) is an American nuclear physicist . He is known for his proposal for an Accelerator Driven System (ADS), the main aim of which was to convert radioactive waste from nuclear reactors while making energy usable at the same time.

Life

Bowman received his bachelor's degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1956 and his PhD in nuclear physics from Duke University in 1961 . From 1961 to 1968 he was a Senior Physicist at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory . From 1968 to 1972 he was Research Program Manager at Livermore Electron Linac (electron linear accelerator). From 1972 to 1977 he was head of the nuclear physics department at the National Institute of Standards and Technology . He then worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where he headed the Neutron Measurement and Research Department from 1977 to 1982. From 1982 to 1985 he was Associate Division Leader Basic Physics there.

In addition to pure experimental nuclear physics, Bowman deals with neutron physics and the development of neutron sources and associated accelerators. Bowman was the first program manager for the establishment of the Manuel Lujan Neutron Scattering Center (Lujan Center) in Los Alamos and developed a method, the proton accelerator simultaneously the Lujan Center and the Weapons Neutron Research Group at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE, formerly LAMPF) to provide.

In 1997 he founded the Accelerator-Driven Neutron Applications (ADNA) company to further develop his ADS proposal . He also has a US patent from 2001 (Apparatus for transmutation of nuclear reactor waste, US Patent 6233298).

From 1969 to 1982 he was a member of the Nuclear Cross Section Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Bowman is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the LANL

He has been married since 1956 and has two children.

Fonts

  • with others: Nuclear energy generation and waste transmutation using an accelerator-driven intense thermal neutron source, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, Volume 320, 1992, pp. 336-367
  • Accelerator driven systems for nuclear waste transmutation, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, Volume 48, 1998, pp. 505-556

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Bowman, Charles D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Roanoke , Virginia