About Us
Friday, August 17th, 2007This blog is an extension of the CORRE website. Its purpose is to The editor of the site is Dave Mason, and the administrator is Pete Lotts. Webmaster is Fred Postma. Writers are Dave Reichle, Joe Setaro, Bob Keil, Charlie Kuykendall, Keith Kibbe, and Dub Shults.
Dave Mason
Editor
Dave Mason retired from U. S. Enrichment Corp. in 2005 after 5 years as Director, Centrifuge Demonstration Project. He retired from LMES in 1999 with over 20 years of service in management positions including Director, Enrichment Technical Operations for Uranium Enrichment; Director, Enrichment Facilities Support; and various management positions in Environmental Management and Enrichment Facilities (EMEF). His service at LMES was interrupted for intervals at Hobart Brothers Corp. and Cabot Corp.
Pete Lotts
Administrator
A.L. (Pete) Lotts worked at ORNL 1959-1989, except for a 4-year period at K-25 as Director of the AVLIS Division. Originally a member of ORNL’s Metals and Ceramics Division, he served as director of several different programs involving nuclear fuel cycle and reactor technology and later as Director of the Research Reactors Division.
Fred Postma
Webmaster
Fred W. Postma, Jr. served as a Development Chemist in Y-12 Development Division beginning in 1957. In 1973 continued to develop analytical methods to assist K-25. For the last 15 years directed the development of the Analytical Laboratory Information System ( AnaLIS) used at each of the five Energy Systems plant labs. Retired in 1997.
Writers and Contributors
David E. Reichle, President of CORRE came to ORNL in 1964 as an AEC Fellow in the Health Physics Division. He was Director of ORNL’s Environmental Sciences Division, and for 10 years before retirement was ORNL Associate Director for Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Robert G. (Bob) Keil, Vice President of CORRE, was at ORNL for 35 years as a machinist. He served in various capacities in Local 480 of IAM, and in ATLC, of which he was President for 14 years before retirement.
Joseph A. Setaro, Vice President of CORRE, retired from ORNL in 1999 after 35 years of company service. At ORNL, he served as a Section Head in the Operations Division and in the Office of Radiation Protection.
Charlie Kuykendall, Past President of CORRE, started his 41 years of company service at K-25, then worked at Y-12, General Staff, and Paducah, before finishing with 15 years as a division director at ORNL.
Keith Kibbe, member of the CORRE Board of Directors, retired in 1994 with 20 years of service, after holding a variety of program management positions at ORNL and the K-25 Site D&D Program. Previous experience included liquid rocket engine development and testing for Project Apollo at the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation in Los Angeles, and in gas-cooled reactor design and development with the General Atomic Company in San Diego.
W. D. “Dub” Shults, member of the CORRE Board of Directors, retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994 after 43 years of company service. He held many research and technical management positions, including Co-Program Director of the NSF/EATC program (3 years), Director of the Analytical Chemistry Division (18 years), and Senior Technical Advisor to the Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences (2 years).
