Westinghouse and Bechtel, looking at the possibility of enriching uranium as a private corporation -- MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, is that right? MR. -- and it was an interesting year and a half. I spent 45 days in San Francisco because that's where Bechtel was located, so that was an interesting part of it. But, at the conclusion of that year and a half, it was clear that it wasn't ready for commercial, and I went back to the Lab. MR. MCDANIEL: Right. MR. BURCH: For that one year and a half, I was a private employee of Union Carbide. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, I see. MR. BURCH: And then, the last project I was involved in was the fuel cycle work associated with fast Reactors. That was the time when they were really starting to build, or serious about building the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. MR. MCDANIEL: MR. BURCH: We had an ancillary program looking at the special problems of processing fast Reactor fuels. In fact, in the 15 years or so that the program continued, we spent over a quarter of a billion dollars total, so it wasn't a small program. It was a lot of hardware development, a lot of hardware involved in it, and one of the major efforts was a collaboration with an organization in Japan. They sent probably 20 or 30 engineers to the facility over a period -- well, mostly in 10 years of that 20-year period -- MR. MCDANIEL: Right.
Westinghouse and Bechtel, looking at the possibility of enriching uranium as a private corporation -- MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, is that right? MR. -- and it was an interesting year and a half. I spent 45 days in San Francisco because that's where Bechtel was located, so that was an interesting part of it. But, at the conclusion of that year and a half, it was clear that it wasn't ready for commercial, and I went back to the Lab. MR. MCDANIEL: Right. MR. BURCH: For that one year and a half, I was a private employee of Union Carbide. MR. MCDANIEL: Oh, I see. MR. BURCH: And then, the last project I was involved in was the fuel cycle work associated with fast Reactors. That was the time when they were really starting to build, or serious about building the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. MR. MCDANIEL: MR. BURCH: We had an ancillary program looking at the special problems of processing fast Reactor fuels. In fact, in the 15 years or so that the program continued, we spent over a quarter of a billion dollars total, so it wasn't a small program. It was a lot of hardware development, a lot of hardware involved in it, and one of the major efforts was a collaboration with an organization in Japan. They sent probably 20 or 30 engineers to the facility over a period -- well, mostly in 10 years of that 20-year period -- MR. MCDANIEL: Right.