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Dr. Western has been employed with CANBERRA since 1979, and is currently responsible for supporting the OpenEMS and OpenCDM software for nuclear power plants. He has also supported the Count Room Applications product and assisted with the administration of INGRES and Oracle relational databases. He has also been involved with the software development of several of the VAX applications. These applications include the analysis of gamma-ray spectra, whole body counting, neutron activation analysis, and for scanning of nuclear waste containers. For nuclear power plant applications, he designed and coded most of the dose calculations used in the original effluent software and many of the customizations included in the Effluent Management software. Currently he is involved in the design and development of the next generation OpenEMS effluent management software that preceded OpenEMS. He has also supported the Count Room Applications Software and has been consulted in the development of APEX the next generation gamma spectroscopy count room software. Seminars he has given include one on detector theory and on using Crystal Reports with OpenCDM.
Dr. Western holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from Iowa State University. After obtaining a Ph.D. in 1976, he was a post-doctoral fellow with the Nuclear Chemistry Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research projects included the study and characterization of the decay of short-lived fission products, a collective model of deformed even-even nuclides, a systematic study of highly retarded M4 transitions in 201Po, a measurement of the neutron flux as a function of energy at a research reactor and the development of software for analyzing list data from gamma-gamma coincidence experiments. He is a member of the American Physical Society. Since joining CANBERRA he has taken courses in Oracle database administration and Visual Basic programming to improve support of the database related products. | 