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Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for over 50 years and an avid science fiction reader for even longer. His experience began as an engineering officer aboard USS Long Beach (CGN-9), then design, construction, inspection, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). NRC assignments included senior resident inspector at multiple sites and technical policy assistant for reactors to three different USNRC Commissioners, earning the agency’s Meritorious and Distinguished Service awards. Duties included research into alternative and speculative energy sources, including coal, oil, hydro, geothermal, tidal, solar, wind, fracking, space-based, heavy water reactors, breeder reactors, fusion, and even anti-matter. These studies supported reviewing energy proposals, analyzing technical reports, assessing proposed regulations, and drafting speeches. JBIS, Elsevier, Baen Books, and the Interstellar Research Group have published several of his non-fiction articles.

Publications:

Interstellar Research Group:

-“Water, Water, Everywhere, but Which Drops Can We Drink?”

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS):

- "Ecological Engineering Considerations for ISU's Worldship Project" (Coauthor)

Elsevier:

- “Interstellar Travel: Purpose and Motivations” (Coauthor)

Baen Books:

-"Our Worldship Broke!"

-"Case Studies in Handwavium"

-"From Corvus to Keyhole -- Shipyards: Past, Present, and Science Fiction"

- "Radium Girls of Science and Science Fiction"

- "Grid Wars: Innovation, Feuds, Rivalry, and Revenge in the Never-ending Battle to Electrify America and the Planet"

- “Atomic Follies”

- “Warships of Sea and Space – Part 1”

- “Warships of Sea and Space – Part 2”

- “Recycling: From Stars to Starships”

- “Borders: From the First Sumerians to the Last Starfighter”

- “Artificial Intelligence: Myth, Fiction, and Future”