172 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING Computer Associates. By 2008, Dr. Kao had returned to nuclear power consulting, working as an advisory and principal safety analysis engineer and consultant at DeNuke Services, AREVA, Nuclear Safety Analysis Corp. and, most recently, ENERCON. Following the Fukushima Daichi nuclear accident in 2011, Dr. Kao contacted the MIT team, advising the TEPCO engineers and warning against injecting fresh water into the damaged reactor cores. His years of experience working at U.S. nuclear power plants led him to believe the fuel rods had already melted through the reactor vessels and could lead to explosions and catastrophic environmental damage. Unfortunately, his advice was ignored. As an international expert in his field, Dr. Kao has published extensively and is a life member of the American Nuclear Society. He attributes his success to his tenacity in problem-solving and persistence in discovering the truth. Dr. Shih-Ping Kao is a nuclear engineer with more than 40 years of expertise in nuclear reactor design and safety analysis. Born in Taiwan to a military family, he spent his childhood in Seoul before transferring to a high school in the United States, where his older brother was in college. His interest in nuclear technology grew out of his observations of the global energy crisis, and he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering, with highest honors, in 1979. He was awarded a master’s degree and a PhD in nuclear engineering by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the mid-1980s with a Charles Stark Draper fellowship. Dr. Kao remained a research affiliate of MIT until 2007 while working in the industry as a senior project engineer for Northeast Utilities, developing the software and securing the regulations required to start the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant project. In addition, he was responsible for developing the first PCbased Pressurized Water Reactor simulator, which remained in use at MIT for over 20 years. After completing an executive MBA at Columbia University in 1997, Dr. Kao pivoted to information technology as an international advocate and senior software architect for SHIH-PING KAO, PHD SENIOR PRINCIPAL SAFETY ANALYSIS ENGINEER Cary, NC
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