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Campbell, Donald Acheson was born on January 7, 1919 in Glendale, Ohio, United States. Son of Acheson Meacham and Helen Gertrude (Boyle) Campbell.
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Donald Acheson Campbell
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Donald Acheson Campbell, American nuclear engineer, consultant. Achievements include patents for methodology to provide accurately ongoing measures of total amounts of leakage of all water and steam from pressure retaining systems within the reactor-containment enclosure of a nuclear-power plant and provide for discrimination of the proportion of leakage attributable to systems with radioactivity in contained fluids.
Education
Degree in mechanical engineering, University Cincinnati, 1940.
Career
Machine-design engineer, Alvey Ferguson Company, Cincinnati, 1940-1941; heating and air-conditioning engineer, Wright Field, Ohio., 1941-1944; president, Airco Inc., St. Bernard, Ohio., 1945-1956; application engineer, Westinghouse Electric, Pittsburgh, 1956-1966; nuclear-plant director, Westinghouse of Japan, 1966-1967; principal engineer, Westinghouse, 1967-1984; nuclear-standards consultant, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, 1988. Standards coordinator Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, 1969-1984.
Achievements
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Achievements include patents for methodology to provide accurately ongoing measures of total amounts of leakage of all water and steam from pressure retaining systems within the reactor-containment enclosure of a nuclear-power plant and provide for discrimination of the proportion of leakage attributable to systems with radioactivity in contained fluids.
Membership
Chairman youth program committee Young Men’s Christian Association, Dayton, Ohio, 1944-1945, chairman duplicate bridge club, general-program committee, Cincinnati, 1948-1949, leader training series, 1991-1998, chairman building-addn. committee Monroeville Senior Citizen Center, 1992-1998. Board directors Suburban Young Men’s Christian Association, Wyoming, Ohio, 1946-1949. President Monroe Heights Civic Association, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, 1961-1962.
1st president Gateway Heights Recreation Club, Monroeville, 1963-1964. Manager Gateway Heights Softball Team, Monroeville, 1985-1986. President Circle Eight Square Dance Club, North Versailles, Pennsylvania, 1985-1986.
President Prime Timers Club, 1987-1988. Member American Nuclear Society, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Beta Pi.
Connections
Married Ruth Marian Cory, September 15, 1945 (divorced June 1966). Children: Bruce Hawick, Kathleen Cory. Married Tomiko Sugahara, June 1, 1968.
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American