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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.
2025 International Conference on Accelerator Applications (AccApp'25)
Technical Session
Tuesday, November 11, 2025|3:15–5:00PM EST|Room 1
Session Chair:
Ellen M. O"Brien
Alternate Chair:
Christiaan E. Vermeulen
Session Organizer:
Yongqiang Wang
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A section commissioning of the fast-cycling permanent magnet synchrotron
3:15–3:45PM EST
Dejan Trbojevic (Brookhaven National Laboratory), George Mahler (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Nicholaos Tsoupas (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Samuel Ryu (Stony Brook University Hospital)
Paper
Photonuclear Cross-Sections of (γ,x) Channels in Sm2O3 for 153Sm
3:45–4:05PM EST
Robert Staub (Idaho State University Serials Dept), D.S. S. Dale (Idaho State University), T. Forest (Idaho State University), K. Martinic (Idaho State University), B. Rasmussen (Idaho State University), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), V. Romero (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), R. S. Bentley (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), G. Santistevan (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), M. Baca (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), W. Hughes (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), C. Zeiger (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), J.C. Sandusky (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), J. Nation (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), R. Zander (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), A. Villa (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), B. Tso (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), E. Cárdenas (Idaho National Laboratory), M. Reichenberger (Idaho National Laboratory)
Photonuclear Reactions on natSn Leading to the Production of 117mSn
4:05–4:25PM EST
Kean Martinic (Idaho State University Serials Dept), D.S. S. Dale (Idaho State University), T. Forest (Idaho State University), R. Staub (Idaho State University), B. Rasmussen (Idaho State University), D.P. Wells (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), V. Romero (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), R. S. Bentley (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), G. Santistevan (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), M. Baca (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), W. Hughes (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), C. Zeiger (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), J.C. Sandusky (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), J. Nation (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), C. Gustafson (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), R. Zander (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), A. Villa (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), B. Tso (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), D. Hojnowski (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), E. Cárdenas (Idaho National Laboratory), M. Reichenberger (Idaho National Laboratory)
Optical Fibers for Medical Isotope Production on Accelerators
4:25–4:45PM EST
Grace Dehnel (TRIUMF), Samuel Usherovich (Triumf), Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)
An RF ion source and accelerator for production of novel isotopes
4:45–5:05PM EST
Mary Anne Cummings (Muons, Inc.), Rolland P. Johnson (Muons, Inc.), Thomas Roberts (Muons Inc.), Milorad Popovic (Muons, Inc.), Vadim Dudnikov (Muons, Inc.), Galena Dudnikova (Muons, Inc.), Robert J. Abrams (Muons, Inc.), Pietro Zito (ENEA), Antonino Pietropaolo (ENEA), Nicola Fonnesu (ENEA), Nadia Voukelatou (ENEA), Pietro Zito (ENEA), Antonino Pietropaolo (ENEA), Nicola Fonnesu (ENEA), Nadia Voukelatou (ENEA)
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