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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.
Yong-Sup Choi, HyonJae Park, Taihyeop Lho
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 221-224
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16910
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Evaporation properties of FLiNaK (LiF 46.5 mol% + NaF 11.5% + KF 42 mol%) were investigated with hydrogen plasma interaction. To prevent massive evaporation of molten salt of flowing wall in fusion device, evaporation property of molten salt should be researched. However vapor pressure of FLiNaK has been studied for liquid state without consideration of interaction with plasma. We measured evaporation property of FLiNaK with hydrogen plasma interaction. Vapor component of FLiNaK were detected with OES(Optical Emission Spectroscopy) and RGA(Residual Gas Analyzer). The film deposited on wafer samples were investigated with EDS(Energy Dispersive Spectrometer) to determine vapor component. Hydrogen plasma was generated with 500W ECR source and the molten FLiNaK was contained with heated crucible of diameter of 46mm and depth of 40mm. OES data showed several peaks of total component of FLiNaK. Those were emission lines of F, Li, Na and K. RGA data also showed FLiNaK components with plasma interaction. Without plasma interaction, the deposited film was mostly KF at molten salt temperature of 973K. The components of deposited film during plasma interaction were similar with the original FLiNaK sample. The evaporated mass became higher with plasma interaction while the remained FLiNaK at crucible still hold similar molar percentage. In this paper, plasma-enhanced-evaporation of FLiNaK was qualitatively discussed.
