Mr. Robert E. Prince, CEO, Hyperion Power Generation
 
Mr. Robert Prince is CEO of Hyperion Power Generation. Mr. Prince has over 40 years of experience in the nuclear industry and is a former CEO of Duratek, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRTK), a leading radioactive waste transportation, treatment and disposition firm. Under his leadership at Duratek, the company grew from $7 to $300M in revenue when it was acquired in 2006 by EnergySolutions, Inc.
 
Mr. Prince drove the commercialization of several technologies to better handle radioactive materials including a vitrification technology developed at The Catholic University of America that has been embraced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This technology is now being installed at DOE’s Hanford site and was implemented into the DOE’s Savannah River Site Defense Waste Processing Facility.
 
Before Duratek, Mr. Prince was the founder and CEO of General Technical Services (GTS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Physics Corporation, whose business was to provide support services to the nuclear power industry. GTS was acquired by Duratek in 1990. Prior to GTS, he was an engineer with Gilbert/Commonwealth where he spent 9 years on a wide range of nuclear power projects in Europe, Latin America, Mexico and the USA.
 
In addition to his BS in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, Mr. Prince is a graduate of the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School, is a Certified Naval Nuclear Engineer, and holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance. In 2004, he was conferred an honorary PhD in Commercial Science from The Catholic University of America for his pioneering initiatives in commercializing radioactive waste vitrification technologies.

 
Mr. Prince is a former Board of Directors member of the Nuclear Energy Institute, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Aqua-Chem, Thermafiber, MHF Services, and Kurion (a technology start-up serving the nuclear industry).