Paul Taylor is a Chemical Engineer and a Senior Development Staff Member in the Isotope and Fuel Cycle Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Paul was a Development Engineer at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant from 1974 to 1988, before transferring to ORNL. He has been a principal investigator in laboratory- and pilot-scale studies of production of surrogate nuclear debris, production of various uranium compounds, fission product separations, wastewater treatment, and high-level waste treatment. Paul received a B.S. Degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1974 and completed a number of graduate level courses at the University of Tennessee while working at Y-12.
Paul has been Treasurer and membership Chairman of the Oak Ridge – Knoxville Section of AIChE for several years, and has previously served as Chair and Director.