Other research areas included polymerization kinetics, polymer phase separation and far-from-equilibrium processes. He then worked at the University of Oslo, Norway, supervising graduate students and postdoctoral associates, prior to coming to INEEL. Here, Meakin has been the modeling lead for subsurface science studies, and has worked to develop strategies for increasing the level of national support for subsurface science.
Meakin has published approximately 300 refereed papers in more than 30 leading journals in general science, physics, chemistry and other disciplines. In a worldwide survey covering the years 1981-1997, he was ranked 79th for citations to physics journals, though he did not start physics research until 1982. His four most-cited articles have received from 300 to more than 800 citations.
He is also the sole author of a 647-page monograph on "Fractals, Scaling and Growth Far from Equilibrium" published by Cambridge University Press in 1998. Meakin is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
David Petti holds a D.Sc. (doctor of science) degree in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been employed at INEEL since 1986 in a variety of positions related to nuclear safety and nuclear materials.
He began his career working in the area of light water reactor severe accident behavior for the Power Burst Facility Severe Fuel Damage Program and the Three-Mile Island Accident Evaluation Project. He also has worked on the New Production Reactor Modular High Temperature Gas Reactor Project defining radiological source term for the environmental impact stateme
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