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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.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 31-37
ITER | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8871
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In this contribution, two ITER loss of plasma control events are investigated. The first one is a failure of pumps and/or pellet injection system which fuel the plasma, producing an overfuelling event. The second examines an increase of external heating during the steady state operation of ITER. For both events, initial simulation parameters are scanned in order to find out which could lead to highest fusion power.Extensive simulation work has been done with AINA-1.0 (July-2007), the safety code developed by Fusion Energy Engineering Laboratory (FEEL-UPC) on the basis of SAFALY. AINA is a hybrid code comprising a zero-dimensional plasma dynamics and radial and poloidal thermal analyses of in-vessel components, and is intended to the quantitative investigation of plasma events in nuclear fusion reactors such as ITER.FEEL-UPC research group has been developing AINA code since 2004. AINA code brings significant improvements in relation to the original SAFALY code, and FEEL-UPC aims to continue improving it in the near future, with new models for plasma wall interactions, blanket thermal analysis, and plasma edge and core.
