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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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From operator to entrepreneur: David Garcia applies outage management lessons
David Garcia
If ComEd’s Zion plant in northern Illinois hadn’t closed in 1998, David Garcia might still be there, where he got his start in nuclear power as an operator at age 24.
But in his ninth year working there, Zion closed, and Garcia moved on to a series of new roles—including at Wisconsin’s Point Beach plant, the corporate offices of Minnesota’s Xcel Energy, and on the supplier side at PaR Nuclear—into an on-the-job education that he augmented with degrees in business and divinity that he sought later in life.
Garcia started his own company—Waymaker Resource Group—in 2014. Recently, Waymaker has been supporting Holtec’s restart project at the Palisades plant with staffing and analysis. Palisades sits almost exactly due east of the fully decommissioned Zion site on the other side of Lake Michigan and is poised to operate again after what amounts to an extended outage of more than three years. Holtec also plans to build more reactors at the same site.
For Garcia, the takeaway is clear: “This industry is not going away. Nuclear power and the adjacent industries that support nuclear power—and clean energy, period—are going to be needed for decades upon decades.”
In July, Garcia talked with Nuclear News staff writer Susan Gallier about his career and what he has learned about running successful outages and other projects.
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Preliminary Design Scoping for MITR-III
Sara Hauptman (MIT), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT), Aaron Craft (INL), Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Lin-wen Hu (MIT), Gordon Kohse (MIT), Lance Snead (MIT), Benoit Forget (MIT)
2024 ANS Annual Conference
RPD|Research Reactors in Support of Advanced Reactors R&D
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Session
ICAPP Plenary 1 - Unlock the Potential of the Nuclear Industry for a New and Secure Global Energy Paradigm
Plenary Session
W. Neal Mann (ANL), Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT)
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT
ICAPP Plenary 2 - Climate Change: Key to a Nuclear Energy Comeback
Plenary Session|Panel
Piyush Sabharwall (INL), Travis Knight (Univ. South Carolina), Jacopo Buongiorno (MIT), W. Neal Mann (ANL)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|8:00–9:45AM PDT
Advancements in Risk Analysis Software
Technical Session
Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU), Robert W. Youngblood (INL)
Advanced Reactor Safety (ARS)
NISD
Reactors for Heat and Combined Heat and Power: II
Hitesh Bindra (Purdue), Logan Williams (INL), Aaron S. Epiney (Idaho N)
2024 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP)
Reactors for Heat and Combined Heat and Power
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: Experiments
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Katrina Sweetland (LANL)
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing
Monday, June 17, 2024|1:00–2:45PM PDT
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: Gas Cooled Reactors
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Eric Cervi (ANL), Izabela Gutowska (Oregon State)
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: I
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Eric Cervi (ANL), Alex Grannan (ANL)
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: II
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Thanh Hua (ANL), Zhiee Ooi (ANL)
Tuesday, June 18, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: III
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Alex Grannan (ANL), Ketan Ajay (Purdue Univ.)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|10:00–11:45AM PDT
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: IV
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Thanh Hua (ANL)
Thermal Hydraulics Analysis and Testing: V
Caleb S. Brooks (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Mauricio E. Tano (INL), Hiroyuki Yoshida (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Rachel Thomas (ANL), Dave Grabaskas (ANL)
Wednesday, June 19, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT
Fuels, Materials, and Structures
Tianyi Chen (Oregon State), Robert J. Armstrong (INL), Spencer Doran (Oregon State), Ian Ferguson (Oregon State)
Plant Safety, Regulations, and Licensing: III
Kukhee Lim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety), Toru Nakatsuka (Japan Atomic Energy Agency), Mihai A. Diaconeasa (NCSU), Daniel Sluder (INL)
Plant Safety, Regulations, and Licensing
Innovative Manufacturing and Construction
Hongkyu Kang (Doosan Enerbility), Aydin Karahan (ANL), Chandrakanth Bolisetti (INL)
Uncertainty Quantification, Sensitivity Analysis, and Machine Learning
Koroush Shirvan (MIT), Yifeng Che (INL), Syed Bahauddin Alam
MCD
In-Pile Testing of Nuclear Fuels and Materials
Kenneth J. Geelhood, Simon Pimblott (INL)
MSTD
Nuclear Fuels: III
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State), Cynthia Adkins (INL)
Accelerating Fuels and Materials Research: III
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State), Pierre-Clement Simon (INL)
Irradiation Testing and Characterization Facilities: II
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State), Tsvetoslav Pavlov (INL)
Actinide Science
Jake R. Quincey (Oregon State), Simon Pimblott (INL)
Accelerating Structural Material Development
Nuclear Energy Markets, Financing, Economics, and Policy
W. Neal Mann (ANL), Abdalla Abou Jaoude (INL)
OPD
Experimental Two-Phase Flow
Yue Jin, Yang Liu (Virginia Tech), Sunming Qin (INL)
THD
Computational Thermal Hydraulics
Sunming Qin (INL), Igor A. Bolotnov (NCSU)
Monday, June 17, 2024|3:15–5:00PM PDT
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Idaho National Laboratory/Battelle Energy Alliance LLC
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