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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.
Anisia Bornea, Marius Zamfirache, Liviu Stefan, Ioan Stefanescu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 60 | Number 4 | November 2011 | Pages 1411-1414
Detritiation and Isotope Separation | Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology (Part 2) | doi.org/10.13182/FST11-A12695
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The National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies (ICIT Rm. Valcea) was established in 1970 as a research focused Industrial Pilot Plant with the main goal of developing a heavy water production technology.Within ICIT there is an experimental pilot plant for tritium and deuterium separation, which has as main purpose the development of tritium separation technique from heavy water used as moderator in CANDU-like nuclear reactors as those existent at CNE Cernavoda.The CNE Cernavoda detritiation installation (CTRF) was designed primarily to reduce the level of tritium from the reactor moderator 1 of the nuclear power plant, from 54 Ci/kg - an estimated value to be achieved in 15 years of continuous operation, up to a threshold of maximum 0.54 Ci/kg.Under a contractual agreement ICIT Rm.Valcea and AECL are to jointly produce both a pre-feasibility and feasibility study for the project. The pre-feasibility study completed in August 2006, provided the rationale for choosing the Liquid Phase Catalytic Exchange-Cryogenic Distillation process for the Cernavoda TRF.After reaching the planned threshold in the water of moderator 1, the CTRF can alternatively provide the reduction in heavy water activity from the moderator of reactor 1 and 2 respectively.
