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Romney B. Duffey
Ph.D., B.Sc.
Romney Duffey
worked first in Europe, after obtaining his degrees in
Physics/Geophysics, and then in North America, presently being
the Principal Scientist with AECL (Canada) responsible for
strategic directions for reactor technology development.
He has seen the
rise, decline and re-mergence of nuclear energy in the world,
becoming a leading expert in commercial nuclear reactor studies.
Because of the importance of global environmental and energy
sustainability, he has contributed in multiple areas, on
advanced energy systems design and reactor concepts, on energy,
environment and waste, and on safety, risk, simulation, physical
modeling and uncertainty analysis.
Romney is the
co-author of original texts on risk and errors in technology
(“Know the Risk”, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002, and “Managing
Risk”, Wiley, 2008), and of a new ASME textbook on supercritical
heat transfer in power engineering, and has published over 200
technical papers and reports, plus some published and
unpublished poetry. His world-wide experiences presently include
working on international collaborative research projects,
activities as an Expert with the Generation IV International
forum, and extensively lecturing and presenting the role of
nuclear and hydrogen energy in today’s both challenging and
challenged world.
Asked many times
how he does so many things in and with his time, his reply is
“There is no time: it is what you do with what time you have
that counts”. He is the past Chair of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers’ Nuclear Engineering Division, an active
Member of the American, British and Canadian Nuclear Societies,
and was elected a Fellow of ASME for his exceptional engineering
achievements and contributions to the engineering profession.
e-mail:
duffeyr@aecl.ca
duffeyrb@gmail.com
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