Dr. Neil E. Todreas

Dr. Neil E. Todreas is the Korea Electric Power Corporation Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His professional focus has been on thermal and hydraulic aspects of nuclear reactor engineering and safety analysis. He previously headed the Nuclear Engineering Department at MIT and has been Co-Director of the MIT Nuclear Power Reactor Safety Summer Seminar since 1975. Dr. Todreas spent four of his nine years working at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as a naval officer in the headquarters of the Naval Nuclear Power Organization. He has served on a number of advisory committees of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, and many of DOE’s national laboratories such as Idaho National Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, Argonne National Lab and Brookhaven National Lab. He has also served as Chair of the INPO Advisory Council and as a member of several U.S. utility safety review committees. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the French Civilian Nuclear Energy Organization and the ORNL Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has contributed his service to several of their National Research Council study panels. He has additionally authored three books relating nuclear reactor energy extraction and safety. In 2005, he received the Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award on behalf of his many contributions to nuclear energy activities. Dr. Todreas earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.