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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.
Yasunori Iwai, Toshihiko Yamanishi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 158-162
Tritium, Safety, and Environment | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8894
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The fixed-bed adsorption processusing zeolite has been studied as one of the promising processes for the recovery of tritiated water in the field of nuclear fusion. In H2O-HTO binary systems, the difference in adsorption rate must be considered to obtain the isotopic distribution coefficient of tritiated water adsorbed on zeolite. The static method is probably the best approach to measure the distribution coefficient considering the difference in adsorption rate. In this study, the influence of framework SiO2/Al2O3 ratio ranging from 2.0 to 10.0 and of cations (K+, Na+, Ca2+) on isotopic distribution coefficient of tritiated water adsorbed on faujasite-type zeolite was systematically examined. The isotopic distribution coefficient of tritiated water between water adsorbed on zeolite absorbent was 1.1~1.4. The effect of framework SiO2 to Al2O3 ratio of the X/Y type zeolite on the isotopic distribution coefficient depended on the content of cation in zeolite. The framework SiO2 to Al2O3 ratio of the NaX/NaY zeolite had negligible effect on the isotopic distribution coefficient. The considerable effect of framework SiO2 to Al2O3 ratio was found in the case of KX/KY and CaX/CaY zeolite.
