Arun S. Wagh is a scientist and an educator. He worked in Argonne National Laboratory (the first U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory) near Chicago for twenty years, spearheaded projects on nuclear waste immobilization and shielding materials for the reactor and weapons-grade nuclear materials. Before this job, he worked for twenty years as a faculty member in the physics department of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and Bombay University. The depth of science he experienced in Argonne and the academic needs of science education in his teaching duties prompted him to write in science and sustainability issues for a general reader.
Dr. Wagh is the author and co-author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed research papers in reputable journals. He and organized two international conferences. New Scientist acclaimed his work on Bayer Process Waste (Red Mud) with an exclusive article, Caustic Waste Menaces Jamaica, written by John Bell in its April 3, 1986 issue.
Dr. Wagh was invited as a speaker in many venues, including the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting (2007), in the Annual Conference in Science by Rajamangala University in Bangkok in 2012, for seminars in Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety in Seoul, Mega Dynamo Company in Taiwan, and China Nuclear Council in Beijing. He frequently lectured in The International Centre of Theoretical Physics in Trieste (UNESCO), Italy, from 1985 to 1992. His lectures encompassed topics in physics and environmental science.
Dr. Wagh is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He received his Ph.D. from The State University of New York in Buffalo.
AWARDS
1. Inventor of the Year (2006) award by the Intellectual Properties Lawyers Association, Chicago,
2. U.S. Federal Laboratories Consortium award (2000), National
3. U.S. Federal Laboratories Consortium award (2006), Regional
4. R&D -100 award by R&D Magazine (1996) for Ceramicrete Development
5. R&D -100 award by R&D Magazine (2004) for Low-Cost Housing Model
6. Pace-Setter award, Argonne National Laboratory (1996).
FEW REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
1. Experimental study on cesium immobilization in struvite structures, Arun S. Wagh, S. Yu Sayenko, A. V. A. Shkuropatenko, R.V. Tarasov, M.P. Dykiy, Y.O. Svitlychniy, V.D. Vyrych, and E.A. Ulybkina, J. Haz. Materials, 302 (2016) 241 – 249.
2. Durability and shielding performance of borated Ceramicrete coatings in beta and gamma radiation fields, Arun S. Wagh, S. Yu Sayenko, A. N. Dovbnya, V. A. Shkuropatenko, R.V. Tarasov, A.V. Rybka, and A.A. Zakharchenko, J. Nucl. Materials, 462 (2015) 165 – 172.
3. Magnesium potassium phosphate ceramic for 99Tc immobilization, D. Singh, V. R. Mandalika, S. J. Parulekar, and A. S. Wagh, J. Nucl. Materials, 348 [3] (2006) 272-282.
4. Chemically bonded phosphate ceramics: I, A Dissolution model of formation
Arun S. Wagh, Seung Y. Jeong, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 86, [11] (2003) 1838-1844.
5. Chemically bonded phosphate ceramics: II, Warm-temperature process for
alumina ceramics, Arun S. Wagh, Susan Grover, Seung Y. Jeong, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 86 [11] (2003) 1845-1849.
6. Chemically bonded phosphate ceramics: III, Reduction mechanism and its application to iron phosphate ceramics, Arun S. Wagh, Seung Y. Jeong, J. Amer. Ceram. Soc., 86 [11] (2003), 1850-1855.
PATENTS
Twenty-eight U.S. patents in materials and methods of waste immobilization