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Click here for my Oath of Truth to law enforcement
and to the public that everything on this website is true
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ABOUT MY FEDERAL SERVICE FOR MY COUNTRY

This website is about my work as a federal research engineer
with the United States Department of Energy
and as a civil rights activist in Pittsburgh for thirty-two years

BORN AND RAISED FOR FEDERAL SERVICE

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Reverend Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, US Army veteran

My father, Reverend Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, was an honorable US Army veteran who served on foreign soil; a Professor of Political Science; campaign manager and senior advisor to Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr on how the House Judiciary Committee should interact with the Supreme Court; and an Episcopal Priest. My mother, Jennie M. Shaffer, was a high school teacher, a civil rights activist, and Vice President of the West Virginia Education Association.

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My mother leading the WV teachers’ strike in 1990

Recommended reading for today: An Essay on Ending Racism
by my father Reverend Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer,
and a letter he wrote for Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr
to send to the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Peter Rodino

On September 1, 2023, we lost a great champion for our country, our ninth Secretary of Energy
and twenty-first Ambassador to the United Nations

The Honorable Bill Richardson-Lopez III

Click here to see a letter I received from
Secretary of Energy Richardson

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ABOUT MY BACKGROUND

I’m from a small town of ~4000 souls, Keyser, in West Virginia. 
My family was close with, and worked closely with, Congressman Harley O. Stagger Sr and Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr. Congressman Staggers Sr was the Chair of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce from 1967 to 1981.
In 1977, Congressman Staggers Sr and President Carter
founded and funded the United States Department of Energy.

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President Harry Truman campaigning in Keyser to elect Harley O. Staggers Sr to Congress in 1948

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First Lady Rosalynn Carter and President Carter with Congressman Staggers Sr and his wife Mary Casey

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Congressman Staggers Sr campaigning to elect JFK as our
35th President.

  Click here for my tribute and thanks to Congressmen Staggers Sr and a nuclear submarine engineer named Jimmy Carter for inspired me to become an engineer, then to serve our country
in the United States Department of Energy
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ABOUT MY WORK ON THE LEAD TEAM RESPONDING
TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL LEAK CRISIS

The Deepwater Horizon oil leak, which was caused by British Petroleum,
was the most dangerous environmental threat to our country
since we declared independence from the British in 1776.

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Click here or above to watch President Obama’s first Oval Office Address

“Make no mistake. We will fight this with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused, and we will do whatever is necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy.  Because there has never been a leak of this size, at this depth, stopping it has tested the limits of human technology.  That's why I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge”   President Barack H. Obama

I was one of those engineers. 

THE PLUME TEAM OF THE NATIONAL INCIDENT COMMAND

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Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen, National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the DWH crisis

I was on the lead team responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis: the Plume Team of the Flow Rate Technical Group of the National Incident Command.  The team was led by Dr. Marcia McNutt.  At that time, she was the first woman to serve as the Director of the US Geological Survey since it was founded in 1879.  She is now the first woman to serve as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS was founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to serve as pro bono “Advisers to the Nation” on all scientific matters

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Dr. Marcia McNutt

then Director of the US Geological Survey, now President of the National Academy of Sciences

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The Plume Team of the National Incident Command at the NOAA Command Center in  Seattle.  Dr. McNutt is in the middle.
I am on the far right.

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An award from
USGS Director McNutt for my
“Exemplary Service to the Nation”

Click here for more about the important role I played in stopping the damage being done to one thousand miles of US shoreline and in causing British Petroleum to be fined $20.8 billion.  It is the largest single fine of a single entity in US history. 

Those funds went to the fifty million people of five Gulf states to recover and rebuild.  My US Patent 8,391,552 was critically important tool I used.

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Prof. Ömer Savaş, UC Berkeley

 Independent experts reviewed the technology of my US  Patent 8,391,552 and found it to be
a huge breakthrough and something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years.

About my research on deep sea oil leaks at Naval Weapons Station Earle, UC Berkeley, and the
USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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Dr. Ray Cocco

CEO of PSRI

THE ATTACKS

The $20.8 billion fine was ordered on October 5, 2015, by the Honorable US District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

I was immediately attacked in retaliation. I have been under retaliatory color-of-law attacks since the $20.8 billion fine was ordered.

One of the Snakes who attacked me was the Director of the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory, Dr. Grace Bochenek.  She spent most of her career developing advanced weapons for the US Army.

All I have is a pencil to defend myself with.

Click here or on the many headed snake to see the names of the snakes
who’ve attacked me for the past ten years.
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NEW: The Snakes have been under investigation since March 6, 2025

One hundred and forty-two days after the $20.8 billion fine,
two of the Snakes
 desecrated my father’s funeral
in the Episcopal Church where he was a Priest

Click here for my report on The Theft of my Intellectual Property,
my U.S. Patent 8,391,552, including the names of the thieves

NEW: The failure of National Nuclear Security Administration EEO Counselor Orlando Sepulveda to protect me from the snakes (pdf file)

About being married to a German Jew who lost family in the holocaust, and being attacked after the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh (pdf file)

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About getting “papers” for Russian Jewish scientists who were the subject of antisemitic persecution in Moscow.  The Tree of Life brought them to the US (pdf file)

ABOUT MY WORK WITH EXPERTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT, PROLIFERATION, PROPOSED USE AND ACTUAL USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS

About being an eyewitness to the proliferation of nuclear weapons technologies from Los Alamos into Pakistan.

Click here for my report, under penalty of perjury, and verified with official USDOE documents, on the proliferation into Pakistan

My presentation for the 2024 Multiphase Flow Event in Morgantown, WV:

On the Essential Role of Nuclear Weapons Technologies in the Development of my US Patent 8,391,552:
A presentation in honor of Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr
and Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr

COMING SOON: About listening to the Director of Los Alamos Michael R. Anastasio propose to detonate a thermonuclear device 5000 ft deep in the Gulf of Mexico to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil leak

About my visit to the Harwell Laboratory
of Britian’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment.

About my research at Naval Weapons Station Earle

More about my work with experts in the fields
of conventional and nuclear explosives

A tribute to the great Vietnam Vets I knew, loved and worked with, including US Air Force Pilot Joe Kittinger.  He was in the cell next to John McCain at the infamous Hanoi Hilton

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About my Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
including the first CRADA between the DOE and an outside organization,
the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
            

About my work as a civil rights activist with the Thomas Merton Center and at the USDOE NETL (pdf).

NEW: Hall of Fame Lawyers and Hall of Shame Lawyers

About my work forecasting the US economy and energy sectors
twenty-five years into the future using the DOE Energy Information Administration’s National Energy Modeling System

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THE SHAFFER FAMILY

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Dr. Douglas Shaffer, MD; Jennie M. Shaffer, VP of the WVEA; Rev. Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer; Lynne Shaffer PharmD; and Franklin D. Shaffer

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Lynne, Douglas and Franklin D.

Both of my parents were children of coal miners in West Virginia,

the poorest state in our United States.

During the Great Depression their families were starving.  

They were saved by The New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

So they named their first-born son Franklin D.

LIVED TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE / CITIZENS OF ETERNITY

They raised me and my little brother to get as much education in the sciences as we could, then to serve our country as federal employees.

ABOUT MY LITTLE BROTHER’S FEDERAL SERVICE

For his education in the sciences, Doug earned a Pharmacy Degree and a Medical Degree from WVU, and a Master of Arts in Hospital Administration from Duke University.  He entered federal service for our country with the National Institutes of Health’s Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, then served with the US Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.  In 2003, he helped Dr. Anthony Fauci start the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program. To implement the PEPFAR program, Doug lived in Kenya and Rwanda for 20 years with some of the poorest people in the world suffering from HIV/AIDS.

The PEPFAR program has now saved 25 million lives.

Doug is now the Associate Director of the
US Food and Drug Administration’s
Office of Global Policy and Strategy.

The FDA is the largest and most powerful regulatory agency in the world.

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Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer, MD
Associate Director, US FDA
Office of Global Policy and Strategy

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ABOUT MY FEDERAL SERVICE FOR MY COUNTRY

For my education in the sciences, I earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from WVU.  In 1986, I entered federal service with the US Department of Energy.

In 1990, I invented, and in 1994 patented (US Patent 5,333,044 “Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry”) an imaging technology to visualize and measure the flow of organic and inorganic particles through power plants, and the flow of blood cells in artificial hearts and lungs.   

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My US Patent 5,333,044 was made possible by my access to nuclear weapons technologies from the US’s and UK’s premier nuclear weapons labs.

Patent 5,333,044 has now saved thousands of lives.

FOUNDING THE 15TH NATIONAL LABORATORY

I was a member of the Institutional Strategic Planning Team that created the 15th National Laboratory of the United States, the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory. 

Click here or on the images below  to see my name on the original charter for the DOE NETL, and a letter from Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd to a junior WV State Senator, Attorney Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr

SOME OF THE GREAT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES I WORKED WITH

Click here or on the images below for more info about
the great federal employees I worked with, including:

Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

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Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins.­
He was a protégé of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover is known as the
“Father of the Nuclear Navy”

Our Twelfth Secretary of Energy

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Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu  

Dr. Chu won a Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a technology to capture and levitate atoms with laser light.

MEDICAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS OF MY US PATENT 8,391,552

Click here for more info on the applications of my US Patent 8,391,552, including my work on the world’s first micro-turbine heart pump invented by the great rocket engineer Kenneth Clark Butler. Ken was on the team at Aerojet Rocketdyne that developed the main engine for the Saturn V rocket that sent the first three astronauts to the moon: Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.

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Here’s a list of my peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals.

The United States of America

Established in 1776

NO CROWNS! NO THRONES!

NO KINGS!

LIBERTY OF DEATH

DON’T TREAD ON ME

FDShaffer@Gmail.com  412-320-0510

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