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Mr. Jordan earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1959 from the University of North Carolina, and a Master in Business Administration in1970 from Harvard University. As a naval officer, he was a distinguished graduate in 1977 from the National Defense University.
Mr. Jordan had a distinguished Naval career from 1959 to 1979 during which time he directed U.S. Navy energy research program; conceived and directed computer-based world-wide performance monitoring system for logistics; directed Navy public affairs program; developed and implemented executive planning system for Navy headquarters command; planned and implemented a post graduate military educational program; taught behavioral science at post graduate level; managed operations of primary logistics facility in Vietnam; and directed ship and shore Navy organizations in Vietnam.
From 1979 to 1986, Mr. Jordan was a senior policy advisor to Senator John C. Stennis, President Pro-Tempore and Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Afterwards, he directed the Center for Preservation Policy Studies at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In the late 1980's, Mr. Jordan founded and since headed James Jordan Associates, Inc., a company providing strategic advice in the advancement of private sector businesses seeking development and utilization of advanced technologies. He is also a founder and the president of the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Inc., a non profit organization conducting policy research on matters involving science and technology.
Louis Ventre, Jr. is RIC's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. He is responsible for management and policy direction, organizational support activities, and providing legal advice to the company.
Mr. Ventre earned in 1973 a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude from Newark College of Engineering. He has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1973.
Mr. Ventre earned a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University in January 1978. He has been a practicing Attorney since 1978 and is admitted to practice law before the highest courts of the State of New Jersey, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. He is an active Registered Patent Attorney.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, in 1973, he began a six year term as a mechanical engineer working on the building and licensing of nuclear powerplants. Thereafter, he opened a law office from which he served a general clientele. He closed that business after about a year when he accepted the post of Counsel to the Energy Subcommittee on the Committee on Science and Technology of the U.S. House of Representatives. He served in this position for 10 years. Among numerous energy responsibilities, he played a significant role, recognized by Committee Chairmen and President Reagan, in the drafting of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. When he left the Congress in 1989, he again opened business as an Attorney at Law. He also served as a director, general counsel and secretary to various businesses.
James R. Powell is RIC's Vice President and Chief Scientist. He is one of the inventors of the unique radioactive waste vitrification and processing technologies under development. He is jointly responsible with the Vice President and Chief Engineer for the science, engineering and development. Dr. Powell holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a Doctor of Science in nuclear engineering earned in 1958 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a highly successful engineer and scientist for Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) from 1956 through 1996. His experiences have led to significant successes in neutronics analyses of advanced reactor systems, cryogenic and superconducting power transmission, plasma physics, piezoelectric effects in rock strata, mine safety, fusion reactor technology, electronuclear (accelerator) breeder systems, transmutation of nuclear wastes, space nuclear thermal propulsion, district heating, advanced coal-fired power conversion, ocean energy systems and electromagnetic gun applications, and hydrogen and synthetic fuels production systems, and transportation infrastructure. Dr. Powell was and is a prodigious inventor. He is credited with inventing or coinventing RIC's advanced nuclear waste processing and vitrification technology, MAGLEV, the Particle Bed Reactor (PBR) for nuclear rocket propulsion, the use of aluminum structure in fusion reactors; blankets employing solid lithium ceramics and alloys for tritium breeding; and, demountable superconducting magnet systems. Dr. Powell is the recipient of the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering. The medal was awarded to him and associate Gordon Danby by The Franklin Institute "for their invention of a novel repulsive magnetically-levitated train system using superconducting magnets and subsequent work in the field." The Franklin Institute awards medals annually in recognition of the recipients' genius and civic spirit and in memory of the Institute's namesake, Benjamin Franklin, who exhibited those same qualities. Some noted past recipients of the Franklin Institute medals include Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre and Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Neils Bohr, Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Dr. Powell has published almost 500 professional papers and reports. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society. Morris Reich is RIC's Vice President and Chief Engineer. He is one of the inventors of the unique radioactive waste vitrification and processing technologies under development. He is jointly responsible with the Vice President and Chief Scientist for the science, engineering and development. Dr. Reich holds Bachelor and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degrees from City College of New York. He earned his Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering in 1974 from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He was a research scientist and engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1962 to 1996, where he headed the Engineering Research and Applications Division of the Department of Advanced Technology. For the last decade at BNL, he organized, worked with, and managed an interdisciplinary team of experts in physics, chemistry, civil, mechanical, and chemical engineering to work on complex high level nuclear waste remediation problems for the Department of Energy (DOE), and led a team for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in assessing the safety of more than 60 nuclear power plants. Some of his more significant engineering design and safety projects involved the Savannah River K-Reactor Re-Start, High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor, Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor, High Flux Beam Reactor, High Neutron Source Pulse Reactor Development, technical assistance to U.S. Bureau of Mines, federal highway infrastructure, and fusion reactor technology Dr. Reich is the author of more than 200 reports and holds numerous patents, among them is RIC's advanced nuclear waste processing and vitrification technology. Last modified 12/16/04 | |||||||||
