SUMMARY
Mr. x is a licensed Registered Professional in Nuclear, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering. He has over 30 years of technical and managerial experience in the nuclear industry. He has substantial recent experience improving the corrective action programs at nuclear power plants that had received low performance marks from outside regulators.
EDUCATION
B.S.E.E. June 1971
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis MD
LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Health Physicist July 1988 (now inactive)
Registered Professional Nuclear Engineer, CA 2231
Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer, CA 22451
Registered Professional Electrical Engineer, CA 9734
Engineering Officer of the Watch, Officer of the Deck, U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Plant, 1973
Certificate in Java Programming, University of California at San Diego
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
March 2012 - March 2013
Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant Sr. Consulting Engineer
As a member of the 95003 recovery team Mr. X was the lead analyst for fundamental performance deficiency root cause analysis teams and other significant problems that needed to be addressed to support NRC inspections and plant startup
July/2010 – January/2012:
St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Sr. Consulting Engineer
Mr. x is a consultant in the ‘Return to Excellence Department” at St. Lucie. He wrote or directed Root and Apparent Cause evaluations assigned to engineering, operations, and the performance improvement group. The topics ran the full range of electrical, I&C, and mechanical plant equipment as well as human performance and work process issues. Some typical issues were: the work process focus on critical plant equipment, plant trip due to jellyfish influx, condenser waterbox chronic saltwater leaks, plant shutdown due to a main steam line leak, work clearance error resulting in a potentially unsafe work boundary, and areas for improvement with configuration management and operational risk analysis identified by outside regulators. The most significant cause evaluations were approved by upper plant management and reviewed by corporate staff and outside regulators.
11/ 2009 to 7/ 2010
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Consulting Engineer
This is a continuation of the liaison job described below.
10/ 2007 to 11/ 2009
SONGS Liaison to Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Owner’s Representative
When Palo Verde was placed in Column IV by the NRC and received an INPO 4 rating, Southern California Edison, a part owner of the Palo Verde plant, decided to assign an engineer to assist them with improvements, improve cross-communication between the plants, and provide SONGS with information that may be of use to improve SONGS work processes. This was a one-year temporary assignment from SONGS that was extended to two years.
Initially this was more of a management consulting assignment performing independent reviews of evaluations of plant events, recommending process improvements based on SONGS practices, evaluating design basis issues, and developing plans and metrics to improve Plant Engineering work programs. The extensive improvement plans developed at Palo Verde were provided to SONGS for possible incorporation into their activities. Information was also provided to answer questions on specific issues from both plants.
Plant Engineering continued to have difficulty completing apparent and root cause evaluations that met rising quality and timeliness standards. The corrective actions taken to address NRC concerns were not successful at improving their work process. Plant Engineering created a special group to perform cause evaluations and asked Mr. x to become the acting team leader. The Cause Evaluation group conducts cause evaluations for all failures of important plant equipment that have an engineering aspect to them. They include the broad range of mechanical, electrical, and I&C equipment. Outside experts or specialized laboratories are used for significant issues. The reports are approved by the plant corrective action review board (CARB) and are selectively discussed with the resident NRC inspectors. This group has been successful at eliminating the backlog of assignments and restoring NRC confidence in the Plant’s ability to improve equipment reliability.
1976 – 2007
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
1/ 2007 to 10/ 2007 Manager, Maintenance Engineering, Electrical / Controls
Maintenance Engineering
Mr. x managed 15 degreed engineers who provided day-to-day engineering support for electrical and instrument & controls plant equipment. This group was responsible for troubleshooting equipment issues, equipment failure cause analysis, and operability evaluations. The job included participation on the emergency response team, coordinating outage work assigned to plant engineering, system performance monitoring and long range planning, review of licensing documents, frequent interface with NRC inspectors assigned to SONGS and special teams based out of regional headquarters, management of ‘tiger teams’ created to solve high visibility problems, Maintenance Rule functional failure analysis, and management oversight of the corrective action program in plant engineering.
10/2005 to 1/ 2007 Manager, Maintenance Engineering, Support
Maintenance Engineering
Mr. x managed 21 degreed engineers who provided day-to-day engineering support for equipment programs including inservice testing, local leak rate testing, ultrasonic inspections, thermography, oil analysis, solenoid valves, motor operated valves, check valves, relief valves, and ASME code related inspections.
1/ 2003 to 10/2005 Supervisor, Electrical Systems
Maintenance Engineering
Mr. x supervised a group of 7 degreed engineers who provided engineering support to Maintenance of Electrical Equipment. Similar to the Manager positions listed above, but the scope did not include I&C equipment.
11/2001 to 1/ 2003 Supervisor, Maintenance Quality
Nuclear Oversight and Regulatory Affairs
Mr. x supervised a group of 8 technical specialists who performed audits and observations of Maintenance activities to verify compliance with the site‘s 10CFR50 Appendix B quality assurance program. The group also performed quality control inspections of key maintenance work activities.
8/ 1989 to 11/2001 Supervisor, Independent safety Engineering group (ISEG)
Nuclear Oversight
He supervised 8 scientists and degreed engineers performing the following activities to improve equipment reliability.
Root Cause Analysis - ISEG performed equipment root cause analyses of significant equipment failures and provided overall management of the program at SONGS. These included nuclear and turbine plant equipment such as diesel generator camshaft failures, electronic circuit failures, switchyard potential transformer problems, and fan blade p...
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