Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

   
Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins,­
a protégé of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover.

Rickover is known as the
“Father of the Nuclear Navy”

In the photo above, I am with Admiral Watkins and Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering Dr. Harvey S. Borovetz in my lab at the DOE Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.  

Dr. Borovetz is showing Admiral Watkins an artificial heart, the Novacor Left Ventricular Device (LVAD) we were working on.  It was in clinical trials at three major US hospitals.

Admiral Watkins also served as: Executive Officer on the USS Long Beach, Chief of Naval Operations, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet and Chair of President George H. W. Bush’s Commission on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic.

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for more info on my bioengineering work

Our Twelfth Secretary of Energy

 
Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu

In the photo above, I am seated. 

Secretary of Energy Chu is on the right levitating an atom in his hand. 

We’re discussing our work responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis. We’re also discussing our research to prevent another prolonged deep sea oil leak.

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

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for more about my work deep sea oil leaks

Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite

Our Sixth Secretary of Energy

John S. Herrington

 Former Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Approved my purchase of an Atomic Vapor Laser built by Micheal em Gokay. 

Cem built two hundred Atomic Vapor Lasers for Los Alamos to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.

Robert Oppenheimer led the
Manhattan Project at Los Alamos

The Detonation of Nuclear Weapons in Pakistan

Click here for info about work with nuclear engineer Cem Gokay, Sid Nebeker of the Cordin Scientific Imaging Company, and Roger Lewis, DOE Director of Technology Transfer

COMING SOON: Dr. Steve Salzman’s summer with us learning how to model the flow of shock waves from nuclear explosions flow through the soil using fluidization models

COMING SOON: Enrico Fermi’s R&D of nuclear weapons led to the establishment of the USDOE Lawrance Livermoore National Laboratory.  When I visited LLNL I was given a tour of their plutonium facility. 

Britian’s Harwell Laboratory of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment

In 1992, two PhD students, Stefan Martin and Seb Dewhurst, at Oxford University gave me a personal tour of the Harwell Laboratory of Britian’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) in Oxfordshire, UK.  Harwell AERE is where Britian developed nuclear weapons beginning in 1946.

They had a research reactor that was transparent with an open area, about 2’ x 2’ where a box with fuel rods could be inserted.  They also had a couple reactors generating 80 MW each for commercial use, if I recall correctly. 

Click here to read my USDOE Trip Report in which I discuss my visit to Harwell.

The Diamond Synchroton at Harwell

Dr. Dewhurst, now leading EASA, a spinoff from Harwell Lab

Click here to see my recommendations on using my US Patent 8,391,552 to find ways to safely dispose of nuclear waste at the USDOE Handford nuclear faciility

On my friendship with Béla Karlovitz, the inventor of MHD (Magneto Hydro Dynamics).   Béla was born in Hungary in 1904.   He was 90 years old when I met him in Pittsburgh.   Dr. Benjamin Breen, inventor of NOx pollution controls, introduced me to Béla.   Béla told me he pitched MHD to the NAZI Vice President of Siemens in 1938.   The NAZI VP told him they had no funds for R&D because they were preparing for war.   So Béla moved to Pittsburgh and taught engineers at Westinghouse how to generate electricity with MHD.

Click here for more info about Béla and his invention of MHD from Wikipedia

COMING SOON: Dr. Steve Salzman’s summer with us learning how to model the flow of shock waves from nuclear explosions flow through the soil using fluidization models

COMING SOON: About my visit to the USDOE Lawrance Livermore National Laboratory. I was given a tour of the plutonium facility at LLNL. Enrico Fermi’s R&D of nuclear weapons led to the establishment of the LNLL.