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THOMPSON --- Hadi Bozorgmanesh, Ph.D., will speak on “Sustainable Energy: Myths and Reality,” at 9 a.m. May 13 at Marianapolis Preparatory School in the Chapel. The public is welcome.
Dr. Bozorgmanesh is director of Engineering and Physical Sciences for UConn R&D Corporation. Before joining UConn, he was the senior vice president for Corporate Development of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), La Jolla, Calif. He is regarded as an authority on high-tech defense and energy technologies. As a co-inventor of thermal neutron activation technology for use in air transport, he was honored with induction into Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Laureate Hall of Fame (1989). Thermal neutron analysis and related nuclear-based devices were commercially developed by SAIC and are used in airports and other high-traffic transit centers for bomb and contraband detection.
“In the wake of the Japan earthquake and the radiation leaks at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the world’s attention is on the safety of alternative fuel sources,” said Headmistress Marilyn S. Ebbitt. “As a nuclear physicist, inventor and innovator, Dr. Bozorgmanesh will share his views on these formidable challenges."