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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.
Advances in Nuclear Nonproliferation Technology and Policy Conference (ANTPC 2025)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|1:00–2:45PM EST|Room 1
Session Chair:
Lloyd Jollay
Session Organizer:
Alternate Chair:
Chris E. Robinson
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Nondestructive Assay of Plutonium Content in Irradiated TRISO Fuel
1:00–1:20PM EST
Emily Stark (LANL)
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Determination of the Optimal ROI for Analyzing Portable XRF Measurement Results
1:20–1:40PM EST
SUNG WOO KWAK (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control), Woojin Kim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control), Yeongjun Kim (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control)
HERMES-400 Microcalorimetry Measurements of Nuclear Fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
1:40–2:00PM EST
Emily P. Abel (Idaho National Laboratory), Ammon N. Williams (Idaho National Laboratory), Brian Bucher (Idaho National Laboratory), Edward Seabury (Idaho National Laboratory), Victoria Davis (Virginia Commonwealth University), Katherine A. Schreiber (LANL), Mark Croce (LANL), Dan Becker (University of Colorado Boulder), Matthew Carpenter (LANL), Mark Keller (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Joel Ullom (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Dan Swetz (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Daniel McNeel (LANL), Daniel Schmidt (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Johnathon Gard (University of Colorado Boulder), Douglas Bennett (National Institute of Standards and Technology), John Mates (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Jason Nobles (University of Colorado Boulder)
Multi-source Multiplicity Analysis of Neutron Signatures from Uranium-233 Oxide
2:00–2:20PM EST
Madeline L. Lockhart (North Carolina State University), John Mattingly (North Carolina State University)
Investigation of Extreme Learning Machines with Application to Real Time Radioisotope Identification
2:20–2:40PM EST
Riley Bailey (University of Texas at San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (University of Texas at San Antonio)
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