Advisory Board

"A Little Help from Our Advisors, Contributors & Supporters"

Our?Advisory Board?consists of people we contact on a regular basis to review, critique, and evaluate the content and direction of our website and the promotional materials that we publish and distribute.?Contributors?are people who have participated by producing a?"public presentation"?of their related field of expertise in the nuclear industry and/or waste repository science and engineering fields. All of these distinguished people are volunteering their assistance to serve on ourAdvisory Board. Their interests and contributions are growing and are also attracting the attention of other scientists and engineers in the nuclear fields throughout the country. If you have an interest in joining this mission please contact us.

In addition to our Advisory Board there are many industry people and collogues who support our primary mission of nuclear technology advocacy:

Gary J. Duarte
Director, US Nuclear Energy Foundation
comments@usnuclearenergy.org
775 224-2089

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION (A layman with a mission). I grew up in Maine playing ice hockey about 12 years in the Contractors Hockey League. I played music with several local bands, Bob Bedard, The Fascinations, my band The Liverpool Gas Company played the PAL Hop Days at Lewiston City Hall. We were an opening act for the Young Rascals, Dave Clark Five, Cyrkle, McCoys and others. I lived there about 38 years and moved to Nevada in 1984. I saw the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power plant go online in 1972 and it produced electrical energy through 1997 a 25-year successful operating history and planned retirement. 

My knowledge of nuclear energy is that of an average citizen, I am not a scientist or an engineer. An entrepreneurial background began at the age of about 7 or 8 talking an employee of a lumber company into building me a rock maple shoe shine box for a percentage of my earnings, he did, I did, I paid, I still have it! I served as Executive Vice President of the Maine Jaycees, organized the first statewide multi-chapter March of Dimes Walk-A-Thon. I started and operated Duarte Typesetting Company for 17 years, the first computerized book phototypesetting company in the State of Maine. We developed a software application Stylo-Type I, the first "Mac" based mnemonic coding program to link a Macintosh computer to a Linotronic typesetting machine.

Coauthored a paper "The SGML Solution to System Independence" by Gary J. Duarte, President, DeskTop ComPosition Systems, Inc. & J.Sperling Martin, Vice President, Aspen Systems Corp. 1990. SGML (standard generalized markup language) was a text based mnemonic markup code, a predecessor and included as part of HTML (hypertext markup language) now used in WEB document processing.  As an industry specialist I taught the Introduction to Printing & Graphics at Truckee Meadows Community College several years, Reno, Nevada and worked several years in the casino entertainment realm on stage work and as an audio video technician.

Founding the US Nuclear Energy Foundation when retiring in 2006 has been an obsession. A grassroots directive to educate America about the truth of nuclear technology and the development of nuclear waste management and reprocessing. I began my nuclear and research education by attending and participating in several national American Nuclear Society meetings and have accumulated a contacts list of nearly 1,000 nuclear scientists and engineers worldwide. I participated in several ANS “Focus on Communications” workshops under the Projects tab on the website; http://www.usnuclearenergy.org/ANS.html

Over the years we have addressed the industry to support grassroots education on rebranding nuclear technology at the Advanced Reactor Technical Summit III at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.