He was born in Northampton and graduated from Northampton High School, Class of 1948, then graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a chemical engineer. He served his country during the Korean War as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, where he worked on advanced missile design. He held positions with McDonald-Douglas, California; Rowan Industries, New Jersey; and Inducto-Therm, Michigan, and was the founder and manager of Tower Technologies, LLC, Michigan. He assembled and managed a network of 13 manufacturing subsidiaries around the world.
Later, he worked on several venture capital and business management consulting projects.
Brittain Hill is the Senior Technical Advisor for Repository Sciences at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Washington, D.C. He serves as the NRC's chief geologist for the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste repository program where he is helping determine the safety of this site for the next thousand millennia or so. Prior to joining the NRC, he was Principal Scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas where he led multidisciplinary teams that investigated volcanic hazard and risk assessments at critical facilities around the world. He has had the rare opportunity to combine field and experimental data into advanced numerical models for geoscience and engineering processes, which are used to support societal and policy decisions on geohazard issues. He has also digitized maps and sat on drill rigs in Nevada and Utah winters.
While working on his Ph.D. in geology (1991) from Oregon State University, Brittain worked as a consultant to numerous geothermal and natural resources companies including the state of Oregon. After receiving his M.S. in geology (1984) from Oregon State University, he worked for several years at UNOCAL Geothermal as an exploration geologist. He has a B.A. in geological sciences (1981) from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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What does her brother and father have anything to do with it? Really not relevant at all to the HAARP story.
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