Dr Leonard J. Bond graduated in 1974 with a B.Sc, Applied Physics, and in 1978 with a Ph.D., Physics, both from The City University, London. The characterization of aging and degradation is a theme in the work he has performed throughout his professional career.

His graduate work, preformed for British gas, contributed to the science base for the then emerging field of quantitative nondestructive evaluation (QNDE) and provided a science base for the first "Ultrasonic Pigs" being developed for pipeline inspection. With the support of the Ministry of Defense (UK) he analyzed ultrasonic inspection applied to aging solid rocket motors and also an increasingly diverse range of elements in defense systems.

Dr. Bond became a member of faculty at University College London (UCL), University of London and developed a research group focused on QNDE, including for nuclear power plant applications. He moved to the United States in 1990, and initially worked at NIST in Boulder, CO. He held Research Professorships with both the University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Denver and his work included a major projects investigating aspects of system aging: the inspection of solid rocket motors and acoustic tomography applied to concrete dams with the Bureau of Reclamation.

Dr. Bond's current research activities focus on advanced diagnostics/prognostics, and includes leading the Reactor Aging Focus Area, for PNNL's Sustainable Nuclear Power Initiative, leading PNNL activities that support the NRC's developing program in Proactive Management of Materials Degradation (PMMD) and he is also supporting DOE-NE's LWR Sustainability program. He is a Chief Scientific Investigator, IAEA "Coordinated Research Program (CRP) on Advanced, Surveillance, Diagnostics, and Prognostics Techniques used for Health Monitoring of Systems, Structures and Components and a US delegate to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Working Group 45 (Nuclear Instrumentation).

Dr. Bond is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK), a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IET and a Chartered Electrical Engineer. He is author or co-author of more than 250 publications, including book chapters, monographs and more than 55 in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is also author of more than 60 major reports, and he holds 10 patents.

Mr. Sun Koo Kang received an undergraduate degree from Seoul National University. After joining Korea Power Engineering Company (KOPEC), the professional nuclear power plant design company, he worked as a senior research engineer and participated in Korea NPP Standardization projects in the early 1980s. His pioneering efforts contributed to the development of OPR1000 and APR1400. Furthermore, he performed the research regarding probabilistic safety assessment (PSA), introduced PSA technology to Korea. He developed a series of software on the PSA. FORTE, the fastest quantification engine, was developed, and it is commercialized throughout the U.S., Canada, and Spain nuclear power plants. Furthermore, SAREX, the PSA software, and RIMS, the risk monitoring system, were developed during the study of PSA, and these systems have been used in all nuclear power plants in Korea. He was appointed as the general director of KOPEC Power Engineering Research Institute and was responsible for developing research activities on life time extension, structural integrity assessment, and thermal stratification analysis as well. He is in charge of nuclear division of KOPEC as an executive vice president since 2008.

He also serve as the Vice President of Korean society of pressure vessels and piping (KPVP) and Auditor of Korea Nuclear Society (KNS). He has presented more than 100 presentations at various domestic and international conferences.