Erik Mader

Erik Mader joined EPRI in March, 2006 as a member of the Fuel Reliability Program (FRP) and has led or managed the efforts for fuel performance and reliability, BWR channel distortion, fuel-water chemistry interactions, and regulatory issues. Currently Erik is leading the Hydrogen Impacts (SHIZAM) and Channel Distortion Mitigation research focus areas in the FRP and is also the Executive Director for the CASL Industry Council. Erik serves as an advisor to the Nuclear Science & Technology directorate at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). For the previous 10 years before 2006, Erik worked in the Naval Reactors (NR) program at the Bettis Laboratory in Pittsburgh, PA and at the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) at INL. At Bettis, Erik worked on modeling clad corrosion and fuel element performance. While at NRF, Erik was the technical lead for the two largest expended-core (spent fuel) campaigns in the NR program that examined cores from the USS Nimitz and USS Eisenhower aircraft carriers. Erik received his doctorate from U.C. Santa Barbara in 1995 under Professor Bob Odette and his thesis was entitled "Kinetics of Irradiation Embrittlement and the Post Irradiation Annealing of Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels."