If you're worried about our electrical energy supply, but concerned about safety and the environment, you don't want to miss hearing Linden Blue on Tuesday, June 2.
Linden Blue is the vice chairman of General Atomics in San Diego, a position he has held since 1986. At General Atomics he has concentrated his activities on the development of a technology (the advanced, second-generation Modular Helium Reactor or MHR) that allows more efficient nuclear power plants, creating 50% more electrical power for the same number of fissions while dramatically lowering high-level radioactive waste per unit of energy.
General Atomics is a diversified international high technology company with world leadership positions in fusion, fission and training research, as well as 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. Before that he was managing director and CEO of Lear Fan Limited from 1980 - 1982. He had served at Gates Learjet Corporation as executive vice president and general manager, plus a stint as head of strategic planning for the previous three years, and from 1965 to 1975, Mr. Blue was a principal in real estate investment development, ranching, and construction activities in Colorado. Even 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.
Before he began his professional career, he enjoyed serving as a 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.
