About me
Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for over 50 years, beginning as a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy. Civilian experience includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC). Assignments at the USNRC included reactor inspector, safety analyst, and policy assistant to three different Presidential-appointed USNRC Commissioners while earning the agency's Meritorious and Distinguished Service awards. Coauthor of Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS) paper, "Ecological Engineering Considerations for ISU's Worldship Project" and Elsevier's "Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations." Baen Books has published several of his non-fiction articles on a variety of subjects, including generational starships, shipyards, the electrical grid, "Atomic Follies," recycling, borders, warships (of sea and space), and artificial intelligence.
