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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.
Yasutaka Harai, Takayuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Irisa, Shinji Ebara, Takehiko Yokomine, Akihiko Shimizu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 3 | October 2007 | Pages 549-553
Technical Paper | The Technology of Fusion Energy - High Heat Flux Components | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1546
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In the high flux test module of IFMIF using gaseous helium as coolant, temperature control with high accuracy is required for irradiated specimens and proper flow control is indispensable for this purpose. We have proposed a porous-type manifold which is used as a flow distributor of coolant entering an irradiation region of the module. The manifold is comprised of a straightener part with porous plates located upstream of the irradiated region and a bifurcation part into four cooling channels just before entering the region. In this study, we manufactured a mock-up of the manifold and performed fluid flow experiment by varying the porous plates inserted in the straightener part. The most controversial part of development of the manifold is whether velocity profiles in the four channels after passing the manifold become the same. In the experiment, distribution of the flow rate into the four channels was sufficiently achieved, but this was considered due to not the porous plates but a geometrical configuration of the bifurcation part. The porous plates contributed to the velocity profile. The velocity profile was remarkably changed by the porous plates and made spatially uniform.