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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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September 15–19, 2008
International Solvent Extraction Conference (ISEC 2008)
"Solvent Extraction- Fundamentals to Industrail Applications"
Tucson, AZ
September 14–19, 2008
PHYSOR 2008
Nuclear Power: A Sustainable Resource
Interlaken, Switzerland
September 7–11, 2008
International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA '08)
Knoxville, TN
2008 International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management (2008 IHLRW)
Steps Toward Reality for Safe Disposal
Las Vegas, NV
August 3–6, 2008
Utility Working Conference and Vendor Expo
Knowledge Transfer: The Key to Continuing Operations Excellence.
Amelia Island, FL|Amelia Island Plantation
June 8–12, 2008
2008 ANS Annual Meeting
"Nuclear Science and Technology: Now Arriving on Main Street"
Anaheim, CA|Disneyland Resort & Hotel
May 4–9, 2008
Nuclear Engineering Science, Technology Education, Training (NESTet) 2008
Budapest, Hungary
April 13–18, 2008
15th Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division (RPSD 2008) and the 11th International Conference on Radiation Shielding (ICRS-11)
Callaway Gardens, Atlanta, Georgia
March 30–April 4, 2008
8th International Meeting on Facilities Operations - Safeguards Interface
Portland, Oregon
March 9–12, 2008
2nd Joint Emergency Preparedness and Response & Robotics and Remote Systems Topical Meeting (12th Robotics and Remote Systems for Hazardous Environments/10th Emergency Preparedness and Response)
Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 24–28, 2008
WM2008
Phoenix Rising: Moving Forward in Waste Management
Phoenix, AZ
February 10–14, 2008
Space Technology and Applications International Forum
Albuquerque, NM
January 20–24, 2008
American Meteorological Society
New Orleans, LA
November 11–15, 2007
ANS/ENS International Winter Meeting and Nuclear Technology Expo
Making the Renaissance Real
Washington, DC
October 30–31, 2007
Advanced Safety Assessment Methods for Nuclear Reactors
Daejon, Republic of Korea
September 30–October 4, 2007
Twelfth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics (NURETH-12)
Pittsburgh, PA
September 30–October 3, 2007
2007 International LWR Fuel Performance Meeting
San Francisco, CA
September 16–21, 2007
8th International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology
Rochester, NY
12th International Conference on Modern Trend in Activation Analysis
Hachioji, Japan
September 16–20, 2007
ENC2007
Brussels, Belgium
