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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.
Ph. Guetat, C. Boyer, A. Tognelli, J. M. Duda
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1238-1243
Environmental and Organically Bound Tritium | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12654
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The objective of this document is to describe the behavior of tritium in the environment from the survey data of the site of a French research centre.Since the late 60's, the nuclear site of Valduc, has been discharging tritium gas and tritiated water to the atmosphere. Those discharges have lead to a transfer to the nearby groundwater and rivers. A balance of the tritium migrating through the hydrogeological system is presented for the 1969-2009 period.Surface survey data bring also quite a lot of information about transfers by the air pathway. This concerns the different compartments: air, rain, soil, vegetable and animals. Ratios between the different compartment concentration show that air-leaves transfer is important, that rain and air deposition are of the same order of magnitude, and that a relatively good equilibrium exist between free and organic material water of the vegetable.Some outdoor experiments confirm, in agreement with literature, the level of incorporation in organic materials.Outside the centre, water always remained below the present WHO limit of quality for drinkable water. Radiological impact has been assessed and is presently less than 1 Sv.y-1 for individual of the nearby population.Tritium appears to be a very good indicator of the site specific characteristics.
