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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.
S. Gordeev, L. Stoppel, R. Stieglitz, M. Daubner, F. Fellmoser
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 56 | Number 1 | July 2009 | Pages 301-308
Fusion Materials | Eighteenth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Part 1) | doi.org/10.13182/FST09-A8918
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The target assembly of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) consists of a nozzle, which has to form a stable lithium jet. Therefore, a flat uniform velocity distribution at the nozzle outlets cross-section with a simultaneously low turbulence intensity is required to ensure a safe operation. These boundary conditions necessitate a detailed knowledge on the turbulent flow in contraction nozzles in order identify turbulence models accurately predicting experimental findings within the velocity range of interest for nuclear target and hence can then act as design optimization tool.In order to validate commercially available Computational Fluid dynamic codes (CFD) and the turbulence models incorporated in them a series of experiments using water as model fluid are conducted in the Liquid-Metal-Laboratory KALLA at the research center Karlsruhe. A number of turbulence models with different extensions for the near wall treatment were tested versus the experimentally obtained data. Based on this comparison a hydraulic analysis of the contraction nozzle flow is performed taking into account the relaminarization of the accelerated flow, the occurrence of secondary motions and their impact on the development of the boundary layer. In summary the V2F turbulence model exhibits the best agreement between numerical and experimental data and thus can be considered to be most suitable for the simulation of the accelerated nozzle flow for free surface target applications.