Max Clausen: Engineering Hall of Fame - 2010

Max Clausen.

Award Year

2010

Graduation Year

1970

Department

Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

Award Category

Engineering Hall of Fame

Biography

Director, Office of Strategic Materials and Transportation and the Office of Alternative Technologies in the U.S. Department of Energy

He was Special Technical Assistant to the Director of Reactor Inspection and Safeguards and Senior Technical Assistant to the Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He represented the Commissioners in developing U.S. policy following the Chernobyl accident. He was a Technical Leader at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and a hands-on start-up engineer and operator of nuclear power plants. Now retired, he works as a consultant for Complete Resources.

Degrees

B.S. Nuclear Engineering, 1970