CAS Head - 050809

• B.S. Chemistry, 1969, University of Houston, Texas
• Ph.D. Nuclear Chemistry, 1973, Purdue University, Indiana

Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Laboratories Director, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, 1989 – 1993

Other Professional Experience
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Savannah River Laboratory, South Carolina
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
National Research Council of the National Academies, Washington, DC

Memberships
American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society

Research Fields
Nuclear and Physical Chemistry
Radioactive Waste Management

Selected Publications and Presentations

Advice on the Department of Energy’s Cleanup Technology Roadmap: Gaps and Bridges. J. Wiley and E. Przybylowicz. Presented at the America Chemical Society 238th National Meeting, Washington, DC. August 17, 2009. Published: National Academies’ Press, 2009. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12603

Plans and Practices for Groundwater Protection at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. National Academies’ Press, 2007. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11883

Improving the Regulation and Management of Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes: Final Report. National Academies’ Press, 2006. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11595

Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes: The Problem is Everywhere. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) National Meeting, Washington, DC, February 21, 2005. Organizers: John Wiley, National Academies; Sharon Friedman, Lehigh University; Eugene Rosa, Washington State University.

Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges. National Academies’ Press, 2001. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10119

International Co-operation on Nuclear Waste Management in the Russian Federation, Proceedings of a Seminar, Vienna, 15 - 17 May, 1995. STI/PUB/995. (Seminar organizer and editor)

E.C.M. Chen, J.R. Wiley, E.S.D Chen, The Electron Affinities of Deprotonated Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil, and Thymine, Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 27:1–19, 2008.

S.V. Zablotsky, E.A. Rudak, L.V. Stopolyanskaya, J.R. Wiley, Improvements in the Method of 90Sr Extraction from Environmental Samples with the Selective Sorbent Dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6, Kerntechnik, November, 1995.

J.R. Wiley, J.M. Robinson, S. Ehdaie, E.C.M. Chen, E.S.D. Chen, and W.E. Wentworth, Determination of Absolute Electron Affinities of the Purines and Pyrimidines in DNA and RNA from Reversible Reduction Potentials, Biophysical and Biochemical Research Communications, Vol. 180, No. 2, October 31, 1991, 841-845.

J.R. Wiley, Preparations for High Level Defense Waste Immobilization at the Savannah River Plant, in J.J. Kelley, ed., Effluent and Environmental Radiation Surveillance, ASTM Special Technical Publication 698, American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA (1980)

J.R. Wiley, Leach Rates of High Activity Waste from Borosilicate Glass, Nuclear Technology, Vol. 43, No. 2 (1979)

J.R. Wiley, Decontamination of Alkaline Radioactive Waste by Ion Exchange, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Process Design and Development, Vol. 17, No. 67 (1978)

Contact Information

Dr. John R. Wiley
UTPB Chemistry
4901 East University Blvd
Odessa, TX 79762
telephone - (432) 296-8464
email – johnrwis@gmail.com