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The United States is now closer than it has been in over five decades to launching the first nuclear thermal rocket into space, thanks to DRACO—the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Orbit.
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As the Senior Vice President of Plant Solutions, David is responsible for leading the asset enhancement services, technical services, spare parts, instrumentation and controls, digital solutions and the BWR Owners Group product portfolios. His team is responsible for delivering services and parts as well as creating long-term strategies and high-value solutions for the existing installed base and setting the long-term services strategy for the next generation of small modular and advanced reactors. In addition, David has overall responsibility to manage the joint venture business partnership between GE and Hitachi.
In his previous role, David served as the Senior Vice President of Sales, responsible for the global sales, commercial operations and business development for all of GE Hitachi’s new nuclear plant offerings.
Prior to joining the Nuclear Plant Projects team as the International Projects Leader in 2008, David worked for 6 years in Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF) as the Vice President of Customer Projects, Commercial Operations and Marketing, delivering fuel and engineering services to the worldwide BWR fleet. David has 36 years of service with GE, and held many diverse assignments in manufacturing, supply chain, sourcing and operations for GE Energy, GE Aviation, & GE Lighting.
David serves on the board of directors for both Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas and Global Nuclear Fuel-Japan. He is a 3-term member of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civilian Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC), was the chairman, from 2015-2017, for the World Nuclear Association’s task force on Nuclear New Build Lesson-learned, and served on the technical advisory board for the Nuclear Alternatives Project’s Preliminary Feasibility Study for Small Modular Reactors and Microreactors for Puerto Rico.
David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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