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RETRAN Is Initiated at Energy Incorporated for EPRI Hiring the Core SLOOP Code Participants

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Chuck Rice was replaced as General Manager of ANC on May 15, 1972, and shortly thereafter founded Energy Incorporated (EI) on June 12, 1972, as its President.

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Lyczkowski, R.W. (2018). RETRAN Is Initiated at Energy Incorporated for EPRI Hiring the Core SLOOP Code Participants. In: The History of Multiphase Science and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66502-3_9

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