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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.
Mirela Mihaela Draghia, Ion Cristescu, Nicolae Trantea, Gheorghe Pasca, Alin Fuciu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 71 | Number 4 | May 2017 | Pages 654-659
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1290947
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The Cernavoda Tritium Removal Facility (CTRF) will be built at Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) for tritium removal and recovery from tritiated heavy water during the operation of CANDU reactors.
A Cryogenic Distillation process in combination with a Liquid Phase Catalytic Exchange (LPCE) process is used for tritium removal/recovery from tritiated water.
According with the regulation “Implementation of a Nuclear Material Accountancy and Control System by Operators of Nuclear Installations (2009/120/Euratom)” of the European Commission, the operators of nuclear facilities are obliged to provide to the European Commission, regularly detailed information about their installations and the nuclear material in their possession. Also, according with the regulations of the Commission for Control of the Nuclear Activities (CNCAN) from Romania, a nuclear facility is mandated to apply a control system for nuclear guarantees.
Therefore, an important issue for CTRF, should be the tritium accountancy in the facility. In order to quantify the tritium inventory in the facility, the subsystems necessary for tritium accountancy in normal operation and also during facility shut down should be identified.
Although the facility is, still in the design and construction phase, it is required to identify adequate instrumentation to ensure the implementation of the safeguards requirements. This technical note presents the methods and relevant tritium measurements instrumentation to quantify the tritium inventories from the main systems of the facility.
