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Expert was Manager of General Electric's International Utitlity Marketing Operations responsible for Development of Power projects throughout the World--Countries included Spain, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Yugoslavia, Italy and many more. The marketdDevelopment included arranging for international financing through such agencies as The Export Import Bank of Washington DC/The World Bank/Agency for International Development as well as private US and foreign banks. Projects included the Fukushima Nuclear Project for Tokyo Electric Power Company--Volta River Hydro Project in Ghana--and the Tarapur Nuclear Project in India.

As an Independent Consultant, Expert performed expert witness services for McDermott's aquisition of the B&W Boiler Business--one of the largest acquisition/mergers of that time in the energy business area. For a large Japanese Company he arranged for the preliminary feasibility study of developing the Uranium resources from TGT Niger. In partnership with others he provided the project framework for a LNG (liquid natural gas) project bringing LNG form the Island of Quesm in Iran to Japan. He has provided marketing development to hydro projects in Cuba, Brazil, and South Africa.

Expert headed the team for GE's initial Nuclear Power sale in Japan to JAERI (Japan Atomic Research Institute) for the Tokai Mura Site. The nuclear laws of Japan were essentially written during that project and closely followed the Price Anderson Act covering nuclear plants in the United States.

Expert has worked with EPRI (Electric Power Reasearch Institute of Palo Alto). Studies included the development of longer term low level enriched uranium for use in nuclear reactors. The objective was to design nuclear fuel with a burnup rate greater than 15,000 Mega Watts/ton; a study with EPRI also included examination of optimization of the construction time for large nuclear reactors.