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108 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ENERGY, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING A t the inception of his career in 1972, Dr. Yasuo Onishi worked as a research engineer at the University of Iowa, where his primary focus was on nuclear energy. Determined to protect the Earth, he was afforded great opportunities to work with environmental studies, which were implemented in his native Japan. As his career progressed, he became one of the resounding U.S. pioneers to conduct environmental and risk assessments, as well as extensive work on U.S. and international environmental and energy dilemmas. Notably, he was the conceptual designer of the New Safe Confinement building over the destroyed Chernobyl plant and was a research manager in the bilateral U.S.- USSR joint soil and environmental assessment of the Chernobyl accident. Within his career, Dr. Onishi has worked with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, since 1974, in which he has also served as a senior research engineer, staff engineer, manager of the Research Program Office and chief scientist (fluid dynamics). Establishing his own consulting business, Yasuo Onishi Consulting LLC, in 2006, he has continued to contribute to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and has been a laboratory director at Higashi Nippon International University in Japan since 2017. Lending his expertise to academia, Dr. Onishi has also served as an adjunct professor at Washington State University Tri-Cities since 2005. Dr. Onishi holds a BS in mechanical engineering and an MS from Osaka Prefecture University, as well as a PhD in hydraulics from the University of Iowa, obtained in 1972. Demonstrating versatility in his profession, he has been a featured guest on the television program “Nova,” has contributed articles to scientific and scholarly journals, and edited “Chernobyl: What Have We Learned?” in 2007. In 1985, he co-authored “Principles of Health Risk Assessment.” To attest to his success, Dr. Onishi was honored with two Secretary Awards from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2011 and a Best Platform Presentation Award from ASTM International in 1979. Today, he maintains professional affiliation with the Fukushima Reconstruction Program and is an adjunct member of the National Council on Radiation Protection andMeasurements. YASUO ONISHI, PHD PRESIDENT Yasuo Onishi Consulting LLC Richland, WA