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He has over 50 years of professional experience and has held senior management positions in industry and the federal government. The most noteworthy of these include: design and project engineering on the Savannah River Project and Nuclear Submarine Program, Industry Exchange Executive for the U.S. Department of Interior, Vice President for Energy Programs for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Executive Vice President of the Schneider Group of Pittsburgh, and currently President of Durante Associates, Inc. Mr. Durante managed a major contract with the Canadian government aimed at introducing Canadian nuclear technology into the United States. Mr. Durante assisted in setting up and managing a U.S. company which served as the applicant in the submittal of the CANDU reactor design to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for certification. He managed a group of specialized nuclear licensing consultants and served as liaison between AECL and the U.S. utilities and U.S. government agencies. He participated in the Plutonium Disposition Program initiated by the National Academy of Sciences to determine how mixed oxide fuel elements could be burned in CANDU reactors. Durante Associates has represented a dozen major U.S. corporations in business development activities for both government and commercial programs. Prior to forming Durante Associates, Mr. Durante was Vice President for Advanced Energy Programs with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation responsible for government and utility research and development programs. He participated in many of Westinghouse's successful programs for the operation and management of DOE Weapons Laboratory and waste management sites. He was also involved in other energy programs such as solar, magnetohydrodynamics, cold gasification, and fuel cell development. In 1966, he was selected by President Johnson as an Industry Exchange Employee and assigned to the U.S. Department of Interior to manage a large nuclear desalination project. Mr. Durante holds degrees of Mechanical Engineer and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and has completed technical and business courses at Georgia Tech and Harvard Business School. In 1986 he was elected Fellow for the American Nuclear Society and in 1994 he was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences. He has been involved in a number of engineering professional societies and has served in many management positions with the American Nuclear Society. In February 1995, he was named President of the Food Safeguards Council, a new non-profit organization established to promote and develop food irradiation processes.