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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.
Jae Sung Yoon, Suk Kwon Kim, Eo Hwak Lee, Seungyon Cho, Dong Won Lee
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 3 | September 2013 | Pages 657-661
Test Blanket, Fuel Cycle, and Breeding | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 2) Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A19167
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Korea (KO) has developed and participated in the Test Blanket Module (TBM) program in the ITER, in which Ferritic Martensitic (FM) steel was used as the structural material for the TBM first wall (FW). To develop the fabrication method for the TBM FW and verify its integrity, a half-scale sub-module mock-up was fabricated and integrity test has been prepared; A dimension of it is a 444 mm height, 260 mm width, and 435 mm depth. A mock-up was assembled by HIPping of the previous fabricated components between the welded front and back plates, and then machining these plates to form the completed sub-module FW. To investigate the deformation of the cooling channels after the fabrication of the mock-up, neutron radiography was carried using neutron radiography facility. Pressure and He leak tests were successfully performed without any leak and failure. The flow rates in each channel were measured with the conventional ultrasonic sensor but it shows non-uniform flow distribution at each channel differently from the estimation by ANSYS-CFX. HHF test conditions were evaluated through the ANSYS-CFX analysis considering the above measured flow rates in each channel and it shows non-uniform temperature distribution of the FW mock-up. We will re-assemble or fabricate the manifold and perform the flow test before HHF test in the near future.