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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.
Takuya Nagasaka, Takeo Muroga, Tomohito Iikubo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 44 | Number 2 | September 2003 | Pages 465-469
Technical Paper | Fusion Energy - Fusion Materials | doi.org/10.13182/FST03-A379
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The tubing processes for high-purity low-activation V-4Cr-4Ti alloys were developed. From examination on the fabrication process parameters, suitable annealing condition prior to the 3-directional rolling, intermediate annealing condition, and limit for reduction of area for 1 pass at the rolling, were obtained. From microstructural observations, cracks induced during the 3-directional rolling can be attributed to the banding structure of Ti precipitates. Resulting tubes were evaluated by impurity tracing, ultrasonic inspection, eddy current testing, measurements on grain size after recrystallization and tensile tests. Grain size of the tubes after recrystallization was larger than that of the plate with the same thickness at an annealing temperature of 1273 K. At lower annealing temperature, the difference was small, however. Carbon and oxygen contaminations of about 60 and 200 wppm at the maximum, repectively, and defects on the tube wall surface were detected. They can be improved by minor change in the current process. The contamination increased tensile strength, whereas the surface defects smaller than 20 m did not induce significant degradation of tensile properties. The examination of fabrication process parameters and evaluation of the resulting tubes successfully demonstrated the feasibility of vanadium alloys for component materials for fusion reactors.