John Nitao

John Nitao is a Retired Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he made significant contributions to computational geomechanics and subsurface flow modeling. Nitao earned his undergraduate degree before completing his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at UC Berkeley, where his fellowship began in 1973. At Livermore, he developed NUFT (Nonisothermal Unsaturated-saturated Flow and Transport), a widely used code for simulating the movement of water, heat, and chemical species through geological formations—work with direct application to nuclear waste repository performance assessment and environmental remediation.