Matthew W. Kozak, PhD, Senior Engineer

303-985-0005
mkozak@intera.com

PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 1988
BS, Chemical Engineering, Cleveland State University, 1971

Dr. Matthew Kozak is  known both nationally and internationally for his work on safety assessments of waste disposal facilities and contaminated sites. Dr. Kozak is a frequent consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and has supported the governments of Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Estonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Poland, and Romania on missions to site, develop, construct, and analyze disposal facilities to provide national capacity to disposal of radioactive waste. He was the official U.S. delegate
to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Coordinated Research Program on Improvement of Safety Assessment Methodologies (ISAM), and is currently participating in its successor program on Application of Safety Assessment Methodologies (ASAM). He has also conducted recent project work in Canada, the UK, Korea, Japan, and South Africa. In the USA, Dr. Kozak has supported EPA, EPRI, DOE, and NRC on a wide variety of radioactive waste disposal and radioactive contamination issues. This has included work on Yucca Mountain, and a number of other sites for low-level waste. He has provided technical input to regulatory rulemakings for high-level and low-level wastes, and for residual contamination from decommissioning. During 2000-2001, Dr. Kozak was a member of the National Research Council Committee on Cesium Processing Alternatives for High-Level Waste at the Savannah River Site. Dr. Kozak is the former chair of Scientific Committee 87-3 for the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) on safety assessment of radioactive waste disposal facilities. Dr. Kozak is also a past member of NCRP Umbrella Scientific Committee 87 on Radioactive and Mixed Waste. In 2004, Dr. Kozak was on the IAEA’s International Peer Review Team for the Australian National Repository.