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George H. Miley

Academic career[edit]

In 1955, Miley received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering/Physics from Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his M.Sc. (1956) and his Ph.D. (1959), both in Nuclear/Chemical Engineering, from the University of Michigan. ^{[citation needed]}

In 1961, he became assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and advanced to associate professor in 1964, and to professor of nuclear and electrical engineering in 1967. He has directed the Fusion Studies Lab since 1975 and has chaired the Nuclear Engineering Program from 1983 to 1995. Since August 2010 he is professor emeritus. ^{[citation needed]}

He was editor-in-chief of the American Nuclear Society's journal Fusion Science and Technology until his retirement in 2000.^[2] He was also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Plasma Physics and Laser and Particle Beams.^[3]

His work Direct Conversion of Nuclear Radiation Energy was written in 1970 and sponsored by the Atomic Energy Commission.^[4]

Cold fusion and LENR[edit]

Miley has investigated nuclear transmutations in thin films of metals based on earlier work on the Patterson Power Cell, supported by Clean Energy Technologies, Incorporated (CETI).^{[5][unreliable source?]} Miley is also active in research on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) in thin metal films.^[6][7]

After his retirement he participated in the 2011 World Green Energy Symposium, which was held in October 2011 at the Pennsylvania Convention CenterinPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.^{[8][self-published source?]} During a Symposium session titled "Cold Fusion – A Discussion", Miley reported that he has constructed a LENR device that continuously produces several hundred watts of power.^{[9][self-published source?]}

Publications[edit]

Books

• George H. Miley: Direct Conversion of Nuclear Radiation Energy, American Nuclear Society, Illinois, 1971, ASIN: B00173FBUI
• George H. Miley: Fusion Energy Conversion, American Nuclear Society, Illinois, 1976, ISBN 978-0-89448-008-9
• A. A. Harms, K. F. Schoepf, G. H. Miley, D. R. Kingdon: Principles of Fusion Energy: An Introduction to Fusion Energy for Students of Science and Engineering, World Scientific, 2000, ISBN 978-981-238-033-3
• Heinrich Hora, George Hunter Miley: Edward Teller lectures: lasers and inertial fusion energy, World Scientific, 2005, ISBN 1-86094-468-X
• George H. Miley: Life at the Center of the Energy Crisis: A Technologist's Search for a Black Swan, World Scientific, 2013, ISBN 978-981-4436-48-9

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External links[edit]

• George H Miley | Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering | UIUC
• Profile Archived 2012-01-29 at the Wayback Machine and faculty page, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Fusion Studies Laboratory. Publication List, 2003–Present