CURRICULUM VITAE. Edward D. Blandford

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Edward D. Blandford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) Stanford University 616 Serra St. Stanford, California (650) (office), (415) (mobile) PERSONAL: Born July 23, 1979 in Hollywood, California. EDUCATION: Ph.D Physical Similitude of Hierarchical Engineered Systems Prof. P. F. Peterson, research advisor University of California, Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering M.S University of California, Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering B.S University of California, Los Angeles, Mechanical Engineering PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Research Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at CISAC, Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellow at CISAC, Stanford University Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, Nuclear Engineering Project Manager, Steam Generator Management Program, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California Member of the Technical Staff, Fuel Reliability Program, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California RESEARCH INTERESTS: Nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics in support of the safety of nuclear installations, security implications for new nuclear infrastructure, probabilistic risk assessment, performance-based regulation, best-estimate code validation and verification, and various topics in heat and mass transfer, fluid dynamics, and phase change. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND CONSULTING EXPERIENCE: 2010 Member of ANS President's Special Committee on SMR Generic Licensing Issues 2006 Member of Oconee Steam Generator Excessive Wear Root Cause Committee, Consultant to Duke Energy, Mississauga, Toronto

2 PREVIOUS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: 2007 Research Associate, General Atomics, La Jolla, California 2001 Department of Energy Undergraduate Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California (worked on KamLAND site in Toyama, Japan) 1999 Department of Energy Undergraduate Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 1999 Undergraduate Researcher, UCLA Astronomy Department, Westwood, California 1998 Design Engineer and CNC Machinist, Synderdyne Corporation, Santa Monica, California 1998 Department of Energy Undergraduate Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York (worked on RHIC site) PUBLICATIONS: Manuscripts and Proceedings: R. Powell, E. D. Blandford, and P. F. Peterson, Strategies for Addressing Security and Safety Risks of Critical Nuclear Infrastructure, Part 1: Treating Threats as Fully Strategic, (in progress for submittal to Risk Analysis in April, 2012) E. D. Blandford, R. Powell and P. F. Peterson, Strategies for Addressing Security and Safety Risks of Critical Nuclear Infrastructure, Part 2: Risk-informed Threat Definition for Physical Protection, (in progress for submittal to Risk Analysis in April, 2012) E. D. Blandford, Development of Strong-sense Validation Benchmarks for the Fluoride salt-cooled High-temperature Reactor Proceedings of International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 12), Chicago, IL USA, June 24-28, 2012 Paper M. Laufer, E. D. Blandford, and P. F. Peterson, Overview of the Technology Development Path and Experimental Program for the Pebble-Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor Proceedings of ICENES-2011 San Francisco, CA USA May E. D. Blandford and P. F. Peterson, A Buoyantly-driven Shutdown Rod Concept for Passive Reactivity Control of Liquid-Salt Cooled High Temperature Reactor (in progress for submission to Nuclear Engineering and Design in April 2012) R. A. Borelli, L. Kim, E. D. Blandford, Y. Hwang, E. H. Kim, and P.F. Peterson, Extended Containment and Surveillance Approach to Safeguards for Remote Handled Nuclear Materials Proceedings of ICAPP 10 San Diego, CA USA, June 13-17, 2010 Paper E. D. Blandford, P. F. Peterson, Global Scaling Analysis for the Pebble Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor. Proc. 13 International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (NURETH-13), Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, September 27-October 2, 2009, Paper N13P1213.

3 E. D. Blandford, J. Tang, R. Wang, and P.F. Peterson, Progress in the Development of the Modular Pebble-Bed Advanced High Temperature Reactor Proceedings of Global 09 Paris, France, September 6-11, 2009 Paper 9329 D. E. Holcombe, E. D. Blandford, and P. F. Peterson, The Instrumentation And Control Strategy Of The PB-AHTR, Sixth American Nuclear Society International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies, Knoxville, TN, April 5-9, 2009 E. D. Blandford, P.F. Peterson, A Novel Buoyantly-driven Shutdown Rod Design for Passive Reactivity Control of the PB-AHTR Proceedings of HTR 08 Washington, D.C., USA, September 28-October 1, 2008 Paper P.F. Peterson, E. D. Blandford, C. Galvez, Overview of Fission Safety for Laser ICF Fission Energy, Fusion Science and Technology, Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy, Volume 56, Number 2, August 2009 Pages A. Niquille, M.Fratoni, P. Bardet, E. Blandford, E. Greenspan, and P.F. Peterson, Design, Analysis and Development of the Modular PB-AHTR Proceedings of ICAPP 08 Anaheim, CA USA, June 8-12, 2008 Paper 8211 E. D. Blandford, L. Kim, M. Laufer, and P. F. Peterson, Pathways: Scenarios for Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons in 2030 and Implications for United States Policy, Scenario I, A Global Nuclear Energy Expansion Scenario: The World in 2030, University of California, Berkeley, September 10, 2008 A. Niquille, E. Blandford, C. Galvez, and P. Peterson Modeling and Transient Analysis for the Modular Pebble-Bed Advanced High Temperature Joint International Workshop: Nuclear Technology and Society Needs for Next Generation Berkeley, California, January 6-8, 2008 P. Frattini, J. Blok, E Blandford and A. Morvan Modeling Chemistry and Neutronics Feedback for Axial Offset Anomaly Prediction Proceedings of the EPRI International Water Chemistry Conference (October 14, 2004), San Francisco, CA Book Chapters: E. D. Blandford, M. May The Nuclear Enterprise, Hoover Series, S. Drell and G. Schultz eds., Hoover Enterprise Press E. D. Blandford, P. F. Peterson Nuclear Hydrogen Production Handbook, CRC Handbook, R. Hino and X. L. Yan, eds., CRC Press, Inc., Taylor Francis Group. E. D. Blandford, L. K. Kim, P. F. Peterson The Road from Copenhagen, D. Kammen and S. Borenstein, eds., Cambridge University Press.

4 Other Publications: E. D. Blandford, J. Ahn, The Accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi, Special Issue on Fukushima Daiichi: One Year Later, Elements Magazine, June E. D. Blandford, R. J. Budnitz, R. C. Ewing, What does 1 million years mean to a regulator?, Nuclear News, November 2011 Selected Published Technical Reports: EPRI Report PWR Steam Generator Foreign Object Exclusion Systems EPRI, Palo Alto, CA (March, 2007) EPRI Report Steam Generator Foreign Object Task Force Review Material EPRI, Palo Alto, CA (March, 2006) EPRI Report Outer Diameter Stress Corrosion Cracking (ODSCC) at Tube Support Plates (TSP) Alternate Repair Criteria (ARC), Addendum 6 EPRI, Palo Alto, CA (November, 2005) EPRI Report Wear Predictions of Foreign Objects in Steam Generators EPRI, Palo Alto, CA (December, 2005) Selected Conferences, Workshops, and Invited Talks: 2011 Plenary Talk, Goldchmidt 11 Conference, Geochemical Society Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic 2011 Invited Talk, California Council on Science and Technology, Sacramento, CA 2011 Invited Talk, Boston Consulting Group, San Francisco, CA 2011 Research Seminar, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico 2011 Research Seminar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University 2010 Presentation, Workshop on Nuclear Futures, University of California at Berkeley 2010 Research Seminar, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Oregon State University 2010 Presentation, AAAS Workshop on Game Changers for Nuclear Energy, CISAC, Stanford University 2010 Research Seminar, Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT 2007 Participant, Verification and Validation Workshop, Idaho Falls, ID 2003 Participant, MIT Nuclear Systems Safety Course, Cambridge, MA AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship Department of Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship (awarded 3 times) APS Division of Nuclear Physics CEU Award, Williamsburg, Virginia

5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 2008 Graduate Student Instructor (Nuclear Engineering 39A), UC Berkeley 2007 Graduate Student Instructor (Engineering 10), UC Berkeley 2006 Graduate Student Instructor (Physics 7A), UC Berkeley 2004 Course Instructor (ATHOS/SGAP 3.0 and Steam Generator Fatigue & Wear Training Course), Minneapolis, MN

6 LETTERS OF REFERENCE Prof. Per F. Peterson Department Chair of Nuclear Engineering University of California, Berkeley 4103 Etcheverry Hall Berkeley, CA Prof. Siegfried Hecker Co-Director of CISAC Professor of Management Science and Engineering Stanford University Encina Hall, C220 Stanford, CA Prof. William E. Kastenberg Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor Emeritus University of California, Berkeley 4103 Etcheverry Hall Berkeley, CA Prof. Ivan Catton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Engineering IV, 420 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, CA Prof. Grigory I. Barenblatt (available upon request) Professor-in-Residence, Department of Mathematics G.I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics Emeritus at the University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley 735 Evans Hall Berkeley, CA

Joanna L. Dyl. Department of History, University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue SOC 107 Tampa, FL (813)

Joanna L. Dyl. Department of History, University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue SOC 107 Tampa, FL (813) Joanna L. Dyl Department of History, University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue SOC 107 Tampa, FL 33620-8100 (813) 974-6219 jdyl@usf.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, Princeton University, 2006.