Since 1992, he has been the group leader of the Fusion Safety Program where he has made seminal contributions to the international fusion program by developing a DOE fusion safety standard and providing technical leadership for fusion safety as part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
The review committee noted that his work for ITER made him without peer in the international fusion safety community. Petti is also the technical director of the DOE Advanced Gas Reactor Fuel Development and Qualification Program, responsible for qualifying the coated-particle fuel for the Next Generation Nuclear Plant.
Petti has authored 72 peer-reviewed publications, 17 as lead author. He has presented 13 invited papers to national and international conferences and more than 29 contributed papers to technical conferences. He currently mentors three junior nuclear engineers in areas of nuclear material behavior as it relates to fusion safety and nuclear reactor fuel behavior.
Herschel Smartt holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked at INEEL since 1978, and has over 33 years' experience in manufacturing, materials processing, machine design and intelligent machines. His present emphasis is on turnkey, prototype robotic machine design, development and deployment.
He has been a principal investigator on numerous INEEL projects and programs in welding research, welding automation, concurrent weld inspection, and machine sensing, diagnostics and control, among others. Smartt is an editorial board member for the International Journal of Science and Technology of Welding and Joining, and a key reader for the American Welding Society's Welding Journal in automation, sensing and control.
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DOE/Idaho National Laboratory
7-Dec-2004