Understanding Radioactive Waste

Book by Murray, Raymond LeRoy

Raymond L. Murray, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, where he joined the faculty in 1950 and was a department head for eleven years. He was involved in designing the first nuclear engineering curriculum and starting the first university nuclear reactor. During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project, at the University of California at Berkeley and at Oak Ridge, in uranium isotope separation.

He has published widely in the areas of basic physics, nuclear engineering, reactor theory and design analysis, and nuclear safety. Several of his books (Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor Physics) have been translated into several languages. For ten years, he served as Executive Editor for the United States of the Journal of Nuclear Energy.