Max W. Carbon Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Publications Additional Experience Summary

Contact Information

703 Engineering Research Building 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/263-2307 Fax: 608/263-7451 E-mail: carbon@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Engineering Physics

• Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Education

• BS 1943, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
• PhD 1949, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Fields of Interest

• nuclear power
• nuclear reactor safety

Publications

• "Nuclear Power: Villian or Victim - Our Most Misunderstood Source of Electricity", Second Edition, Pebble Beach Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9658096-0-3, Library of Congress 2006911096. Also available on the Internet at nuclearpowervillainorvictim.engr.wisc.edu.

Additional Experience

• U. S. Army [New Guinea, Japan], 1943-46
• General Electric Co., Hanford Works, 1949-55
• Avco Manufacturing Corporation, 1955-58
• Chair, Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics Department and its predecessor programs, 1958-92

Summary

Professor Carbon is a nuclear engineer with interests in the broad field of nuclear power. He began his nuclear career at the Hanford Works in 1949, where he had responsibilities for the safety of the graphite piles used to produce plutonium. He was subsequently engaged in the design of ICBM nose cones. He is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, and he has served on the federal Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, on the University of Chicago [UC] Special Advisory Committee for the Integral Fast Reactor [chair], on the National Nuclear Accrediting Board for the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations [INPO], on the Nuclear Safety Review and Audit Committee for the Kewaunee Nuclear Power plant, and on the UC Special Advisory Committee for the Nuclear Technology Program at Argonne National Laboratory [chair].

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