William Howard Arnold (physicist)
William Howard Arnold , called Howard Arnold, (born March 13, 1931 in Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis , Missouri , † July 16, 2015 ) was an American nuclear engineer and manager in the nuclear industry. He was a pioneer in the design of commercial pressurized water reactors and an expert on nuclear waste.
Arnold was the son of Lieutenant General William Howard "Duke" Arnold , commander of the US 5th Army and division commander under Douglas MacArthur . Howard Arnold won with 16 years Pepsi-Cola - scholarship and studied at the Cornell University with a Bachelor Accounts in Chemistry (where he also studied chemical engineering) and physics in 1951 and at Princeton University with a master's degree in 1953 and doctorate in Physics 1955. He then worked as a nuclear power plant engineer at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, where he worked as a reactor engineer and designed Westinghouse's first commercial nuclear reactors. From 1962 to 1968 he headed the NERVA project for nuclear powered missiles, from 1968 to 1970 the Westinghouse Defense Center in Baltimore and from 1972 the Westinghouse pressurized water reactors department. From 1979 to 1980 he was General Manager of the Nuclear International Division, 1981 to 1986 of the Advanced Energy Systems Division (AESD) and 1987 to 1989 Vice President for Engineering and Development of the subsidiary Westinghouse Hanford Company . From 1989 until retirement in 1996, he was president of the first private US uranium enrichment company , Urenco- owned Louisiana Energy Superior, which operates the National Enrichment Facility in New Mexico.
In 2004, he became a member of the US President's Technical Committee on Nuclear Waste . He advised on the detoxification of government production facilities for nuclear weapons in the United States such as in Savannah River .
He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1974), a fellow of the American Nuclear Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
Arnold was the father of the Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Frances H. Arnold . Besides one daughter, he had four sons with Josephine "Jodie" Routheau, whom he married in 1952. She was the daughter of the ROTC commander at Princeton.
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| SURNAME | Arnold, William Howard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American nuclear engineer and manager in the nuclear industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 2015 |