Thomas E. Carleson, Ph.D., P.E. is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Idaho. Professor Carleson has also worked as a consultant for contractors at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) and the Pacific Northwest Laboratory over the last 20 years. Nathan A. Chipman, Ph.D., is Mission Acquisition Manager for Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies in Idaho Falls. He is a member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Idaho where he also is an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Chipman is the University of Idaho Chemical Engineering Coordinator at the Idaho Falls Center for Higher Education where he has taught evening classes over the last fifteen years Chien M. Wai, Ph.D., is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of California, Irvine in 1967, followed by two postdoctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles. he has been teaching and conducting research at the University of Idaho since 1969. Professor Wai was also a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in 1982, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory in 1990, and at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, TokaiMura, in 1991.