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A Vista in Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah
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Joshua Trees in the Mojave Desert West of Searchlight, Nevada
View into the Grand Canyon of Provence, France.
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If you are only popping in to see 'what's new,' use the current year's "Yearbook," a chronological listing of entries made this year located under Item A in the content lists below.
The last item for 2009 was this interview that has gotten me mostly kudos from both national and international colleagues and friends. It also tells you something about what I did for a living for several decades.
My resume is posted here in case one of you is curious.
I now work for the US Department of Energy in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
I was recently very pleasantly surprised, and genuinely honored, to receive an "Appreciation Award" from the Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu.
Old dude+cheesy grin=me:
The Award says:
“In recognition of your extraordinary efforts establishing a platform for including the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle in the dialogue about safety, security, and safeguards during the 2011 Joint Standing Committee for Nuclear Energy Cooperation. For your commitment to enhancing America’s influence on the International nuclear community, you are awarded the Secretary of Energy Appreciation Award.”
I really appreciate the Department's management chain from here to the Secretary of Energy, through whose hands these words were passed, for recognizing that our international efforts have a greater meaning then just realizing cost-savings that come with doing cooperative research and sharing test plans and results between countries.
The saying “what happens there, happens here” has a particularly pointed meaning when it comes to anything nuclear. So whenever we can do something that shows other nations how to do something safely, in this instance the permanent disposal of radioactive waste, we are helping the world be a safer place. Uncontrolled radioactive materials do not recognize national borders. When one country properly disposes of its radioactive waste materials, it is protecting its neighbors and the world.
I had a lot of help earning this award. It was a team effort! Thank you, team!
Madrone trees above Sitting Bull Falls, New Mexico, this photo was one of a number of regional photos featured in the Carlsbad Current-Argus newspaper of October 15, 2011
To Navigate This Site You Need to Know Your ABCs:
B. PLACES --photo pages, with narrative describing my travels on three of the Earth's continents:
Go to Asia (Japan)
Go to First Western Europe Page (Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia)
Go to Second Western Europe Page (Spain, France, Andorra)
Go to North America: Greenland (from the air only)
GO TO THE U.S. and visit the States of:
C. (1) THOUGHTS including eulogies, essays and fiction, with
(2) BOOK REVIEWS and
(3) THEMATIC REVIEWS
The old "link-outline" is still here but not being maintained (all its listings are now part of A, B and C above).
The four home pages for the four websites I combined into one in the 1990s still exist, they serve as 'chapter headings' deeper in the site, but are no longer being added to, so there is no longer a link here: all their content has been moved onto A and B above.