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Jack Edlow started his career in the nuclear business at the tender age of 17 when he spent nine weeks as a summer intern at NUKEM in Germany. After graduating from George Washington University with a BA in Business Administration, he joined his father at Edlow International in 1969 and became Vice President one year later. He had responsibility for daily hands-on activities such as import/export licensing, package approval rate selection, mode selection, rate negotiation and document preparation for all fuel cycle materials including spent fuel and plutonium. After an "apprenticeship" of eight years under Sam Edlow, Jack Edlow took over the business as President in 1978.
As President of Edlow International Company for over twenty years, Jack Edlow has been responsible for all phases of the company’s activities including transportation, warehousing, and logistic support services for nuclear suppliers and users world-wide. He has acted as sales representative for fuel cycle activities of leading international organizations involving supply of concentrates and conversion services and management of toll enrichment contracts. He has been active in consulting activities covering all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Mr. Edlow had overall management responsibility for a major DOE project to move a large quantity of spent fuel from a Far Eastern country to the United States. Up to fifteen casks were involved in the series of transports, which lasted several years. His role in the project included logistic studies, rate negotiations, vessel charter, tie down systems development and implementation. The management of the transportation segment involved detailed attention to all aspects of marine conveyance and sole-purpose vessels, and on land by purpose-built trailers driven by selected, trained teams of drivers.
Under Mr. Edlow’s leadership, Edlow International undertook a project to move a backlog of spent fuel on behalf of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO). The high-enriched fuel had accumulated at the Lucas Heights Research Reactor outside Sydney, Australia. The project was first conceived more than ten years earlier and has faced considerable political obstacles at both international and national levels. Mr. Edlow completed two major studies during this period to determine the contractual and logistic considerations that had impact on the overall economics of the project. Once begun, the project was completed on schedule.
Over a period of three years, Mr. Edlow managed a special division of the Company established to provide special high security transport services to ERDA/DOE for sensitive materials. This system used a fleet of dedicated armored vehicles, some purpose built, to move the materials across a nationwide network between various government and contractor facilities. Requirements included meeting rigid schedules on pick up and delivery, contrast communication, while maintaining a high level of security.
Prior to the establishment of DOE’s Office of Civilian Waste Management (OCRWM) program, Edlow International and the firm Ridihalgh Eggers, Assoc. teamed up to design a new generation of truck and rail transport casks. It has become the benchmark for many of the OCRWM financed and supported designs that have been subsequently developed.
Jack Edlow spent two years of his and the Company’s effort and resources on convincing the Executive and Legislative Branches of the U.S. government to support the Reduced Enrichment Research & Test Reactor (RERTR) program and to take back the high-enriched spent fuel discharged from such reactors. He has overseen the successful shipment of U.S. origin spent fuel from many research reactors in Europe and South America. Completed shipments have required the complex integration on all modes of transportation while supporting the DOE’s ten year program to complete shipment of material from four countries.
With over thirty years experience in the management and warehousing of nuclear materials, providing logistic support services for nuclear fuel suppliers and users worldwide, doing market studies as well as actual procurement and sales of materials and services on behalf of clients, the names Jack Edlow and Edlow International Company have become synonymous with safe and reliable transportation of nuclear materials.
Mr. Edlow is also Managing Director of Edlow International Australia Pty. Limited, Edlow International Company’s Australian subsidiary in Melbourne. As a result of his many visits to Australia, Mr. Edlow is considered one of the foremost authorities on uranium development there.
As President of Edlow East-West, Inc., Mr. Edlow has traveled to many Russian nuclear facilities and has acquired extensive personal knowledge of people and places. For example, he recently was one of a small group of foreign invitees celebrating with their Russian hosts the 50th anniversary of Tomsk.
In summary, Jack Edlow can be counted on for executive leadership of specialized professional staff, management of complex and sensitive nuclear fuel projects on a world-wide basis under strict deadlines, international contract negotiation and implementation, consulting for private and government entities regarding international regulations covering nuclear fuel and radioactive materials, and procurement and sale of nuclear fuel on behalf of major international organizations.
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