New Nuclear Technology to Produce
Inexpensive Diesel Fuel from
Natural Gas and Renewable Carbon 

Event Program 

The GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus and the GW Department of Physics invite you to a  public lecture by Dr. Johnson in conjunction with his participation in the "Physics with Secondary Hadron Beams in the 21st Century" workshop being hosted at the University the following day.

Friday, April 6, 2012
3:30 p.m.
Refreshments and networking

4 p.m.
Dr. Rolland P. Johnson presents:
New Nuclear Technology to Produce Inexpensive Diesel Fuel from Natural Gas and Renewable Carbon

Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Rolland P. Johnson, an internationally recognized particle accelerator physicist active in the field of particle accelerator design, construction, operation and controls. Dr. Johnson will discuss his work in the development of Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR) nuclear power plants, which have the capability to operate in an inherently safe mode, generate no greenhouse gases, and produce minimal nuclear waste with no byproducts.The ADSR burns non-enriched Uranium, Thorium, or spent fuel from conventional nuclear reactors in a molten salt fuel to produce high-temperature heat to convert Natural Gas and Carbon into liquid fuel for vehicles. This technology, part of the next generation of nuclear power applications, uses only domestic sources and reduces the carbon footprint of vehicles by a factor of three, where construction and operating expenses imply diesel fuel production at $2/gallon.  

Presentation followed by a Q & A period

About Rolland P. Johnson, Ph.D.
Scientist-Owner, Muons, Inc.
Director, Chief Science Officer, Accelerator Technologies, Inc. (ATI)

Dr. Johnson's role as the current Scientist-Owner of Muons, Inc., (Batavia, IL) and its research into particle accelerator design, construction, operation, and controls is behind the founding of ATI. Prior to founding MUONS, he was a consultant on particle accelerators for CAMD, DOE, DESY, Fermilab, IIT, and SRRC; Senior Staff Scientist, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (three years on assignment to the DOE in Germantown, MD); Head of Instrumentation and Controls Department, CEBAF Accelerator Division; Senior Accelerator Physicist, MAXWELL LABS, Brobeck Division (Baton Rouge, LA). Prior to those positions he worked from 1974 to 1991 as a Physicist, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, (Batavia, IL) where he invented the "double-helix" beam separation scheme used by the Tevatron Proton-Antiproton Collider that discovered the top quark; from 1963 to 1974 he was a Physicist in several roles, with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Lab (Berkeley, CA). Dr Johnson has published more than 100 references in Accelerator Topics and over 80 in High Energy Physics. He holds a Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley, June 1970 and AB, Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, June 1964.

Accelerator Technologies, Inc. (ATI) is a nuclear energy research company founded for the purpose of bringing Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR) technology to the commercial electricity generation industry. ATI has partnered with Muons, Inc., a research company founded by Dr. Rolland Johnson, an internationally recognized particle accelerator physicist active in the field of particle accelerator design, construction, operation and controls. Muons, Inc. is a leader in studying the "beam switching and control" concept behind a novel type of nuclear reactor, a subcritical reactor.