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Since 1986, Linden Blue has been vice chairman of General Atomics in San Diego. At General Atomics he has concentrated his activities on the development of the advanced, second-generation Modular Helium Reactor (MHR). General Atomics is a diversified international high technology company with world leadership positions in fusion, fission and training research and isotope nuclear reactors. The company has done leading research in unpiloted aerial vehicles for reconnaissance, high temperature superconductors, radiation monitoring, conditioning of high power electricity, thermionic power for space applications, and advanced composite materials. Since 1997, Mr. Blue has also been CEO of NeutronTherapies LLC, a company involved in boron neutron capture therapy for cancer. Mr. Blue is co-founder and chairman of the executive committee of Crodillera Corporation of Denver, a holding company with principal assets in real estate, gas, utilities, and oil and gas production. From 1982 to 1984, he was president and CEO of Beech Aircraft Corporation and a director of Raytheon Company. From 1980 to 1982, he was managing director and CEO of Lear Fan Limited. From 1977 to 1980, he was with Gates Learjet Corporation, serving as executive vice president and general manager, and earlier as head of strategic planning.From 1965 to 1975, Mr. Blue was a principal in real estate investment development, ranching, and construction activities in Colorado. Earlier, he served on active duty with the USAF Strategic Air Command, and was a partner in a 4,000-acre cocoa and banana plantation and a 100,000-acre ranch in Nicaragua. He was also correspondent for the Yale Aerial Expedition to South America. Mr. Blue received his BA degree from Yale University in 1958, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.
General Atomics (GA) and its affiliated companies comprise one of the world's leading resources for high technology systems development and nuclear technology. GA specializes in diversified research and development in energy, defense and other advanced technologies, many for environmentally sensitive applications.
Founded in 1955 as a division of General Dynamics, GA is now privately owned. The company had an initial charter to explore peaceful uses of atomic energy. Leading scientists came to GA, forming the nucleus of a staff that currently numbers about 1,400. With deep historical roots in nuclear technologies, GA carries out the largest and most successful fusion program in private industry. The company has been the primary developer of modular helium-cooled nuclear power reactor systems, and its TRIGA® research reactors have operated around the world for over 40 years. GA and its affiliated companies also manufacture, operate, and service state-of-the-art unmanned aircraft (UAVs), and provide information technologies, nuclear instrumentation, superconducting magnets, systems for hazardous material destruction, and many other products and services for government and industry. For 40 years, GA has been qualified by the U.S. Government and other organizations, including the Department of Energy, Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation, as a government contractor and facilities operator. The company's main facilities in San Diego, California contain nearly one million square feet of engineering and test facilities, precision manufacturing installations and advanced technology laboratories. GA and its affiliates also conduct operations from Berlin, Dresden, Moscow, Tokyo, Adelaide, Australia, Washington, D.C., Denver, Colorado, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Commercial Activation Analysis services started in 1960 at General Atomic, a division of General Dynamics, Inc. General Atomic was located in the northern part of San Diego about a mile from the ocean. It was formed to promote the sale of its TRIGA® Nuclear Reactors. General Atomic had three nuclear reactors, two neutron generators and two linear accelerators along with Na(I) and Ge(Li) gamma-ray spectrometer counting systems. It was the first and largest commercial Activation Analysis Service in the world. At one time, General Atomic employed over 3000 persons involved in various projects. The Activation Analysis group consisted of as many as 17 full time scientists. This group worked on Government contracts and samples received from Government agencies, private companies, research institutions, universities, hospitals, law firms and enforcement agencies. Many visiting scientists used the facilities for their own projects - including testing the original rocks brought back from the Moon. About 1970 the General Atomic division was sold, in part, to Gulf Oil Corporation and went through several name changes - Gulf Energy and Environmental Systems and Gulf General Atomic are the two most recognized. It is now known as General Atomics. In 1973 the Activation Analysis group was sold to Intelcom Industries, Inc. and became known as Intelcom Radiation Technology (IRT). In the summer of 1973, Intelcom Industries decided not to continue the Activation Analysis service and the group was disbanded. Some of the members of the original group decided to continue the Activation Analysis Service by forming a private company and General Activation Analysis, Inc. was born. This company is located about 2 miles from the old General Atomic and, until recently, used the original TRIGA® nuclear reactor (built in 1957) for sample irradiation. In the early part of 1996, this reactor became unavailable and we now use the TRIGA® reactor at the University of California at Irvine. This nuclear reactor can provide steady neutron fluxes of 1.8 X 10^12 neutrons per square centimeter per second and can be pulsed to peak neutron fluxes of 10^16 to 10^17 n/cm2-sec. It is equipped with a 40 position rotary specimen rack for long lived isotopes and pneumatic tubes for short half life isotopes. Half lives as short as ten seconds can be examined. General Activation Analysis, Inc. continues to test samples for outside customers. Every year hundreds of companies, from all parts of the world, send samples for elemental determinations. Some of the more interesting samples include bullets from homicide cases, parts from the Space Shuttle, hair to determine Arsenic poisoning, paint from old paintings and very, very small glass balls used in fusion experiments.
"In January of 1993 the InterNIC was established as a collaborative project between AT&T, General Atomics and Network Solutions, Inc. and supported by three five-year cooperative agreements with the National Science Foundation. AT&T was to manage the InterNIC Directory and Database Services project; NSI was to manage the Registration Services project, and General Atomics was to manage the Information Services project"
InterNIC is a registered service mark of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This site is being hosted by Network Solutions, Inc. on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce
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Some strong alliances have been formed with U.S department of Defense , Sandia Corporation , U.S department of Energy
Sandia directly supports US and international fusion machines. This support includes tritium removal inventory support and materials postmortem analysis for the recently closed Princeton tokamak fusion test reactor; materials analysis and diagnostic development for the General Atomics DIII-D Advanced Divertor Project; and measurements of plasma/wall interaction in the C-Mod tokamak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Spherical Torus Experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. We participate in collaborative experiments on the Joint European Torus in the United Kingdom, the JT-60 tokamak in Japan, the Large Helical Device in Japan, and the KSTAR device in Korea.
Sandias primary mission is ensuring that the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, and the expertise that ensures the stockpile, is safe, secure, reliable, affordable, and fully capable of supporting our nations deterrence policy indefinitely. This means that our nuclear weapons: Are not vulnerable , Are protected , Are stored If needed and will work
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