Charles Archambeau
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
with a PhD in 1964.
He taught at University of Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
, and California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
.
In 1997, he studied the geophysics of Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain
The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was to be a deep geological repository storage facility for spent nuclear reactor fuel and other high level radioactive waste, until the project was canceled in 2009. It was to be located on federal land adjacent to the Nevada Test Site in Nye County,...
, with John Davies, commissioned by the state of Nevada.
He is President of Technology Research Associates corporation. In 2010, he signed a letter in favor of the Integral Fast Reactor
Integral Fast Reactor
The Integral Fast Reactor is a design for a nuclear reactor using fast neutrons and no neutron moderator . IFR is distinguished by a nuclear fuel cycle that uses reprocessing via electrorefining at the reactor site.The U.S...
.
Works
- Dialogs on the Yucca Mountain controversy, Charles B. Archambeau, Christine M. Schluter, Jerry S. Szymanski, TRAC (Technology and Resource Assessment Corporation), 1993
- Earthquake hazards determinations based on tectonic stress measurements, University of Colorado, 1981
- Deterministic Methods of Seismic Source Identification, Defense Technical Information Center, 1983
External links
- "Oral history interview with Charles B. Archambeau", American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD, June 18. 1998
- "Charles B. Archambeau", Scientific Commons