Speakers

Mr. Stout joined the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in April 2009.  He serves as Senior Manager, SMR Technology where he manages project development and licensing of a small modular reactor.  He also supports TVA’s nuclear policy, technology innovation and fuel cycle initiatives.

Prior to TVA, Mr. Stout served as Director, Nuclear Fuel Recycling at the Department of Energy where he was responsible for planning and policy development regarding nuclear fuel recycling.  Mr. Stout was the lead interface with industry working under Cooperative Agreements with the Department in support of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.  He was also the primary interface with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

From 1991 to 2006 Mr. Stout worked in the uranium enrichment industry, predominantly at USEC Inc., where he was Director of Advanced Technology managing R&D, engineering, licensing, construction, startup and operations of advanced uranium enrichment technologies and facilities including gaseous diffusion, AVLIS, SILEX and gas centrifuge programs. 

From 1985-1991 Mr. Stout served in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine officer.  Mr. Stout also served in the Naval Reserves in the Naval Special Warfare community from 1991-2007, retiring as a Commander.

Mr. Stout graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985.  He received his Masters Degree in Engineering Management from the NationalTechnologicalUniversity in 1997.

At Oregon State University, Dr. Reyes served as head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics. He directed the Advanced Thermal Hydraulic Research Laboratory (ATHRL) and was the co-director of the Battelle Energy Alliance Academic Center of Excellence (ACE) for Thermal Fluids and Reactor Safety in support of the Idaho National Laboratory mission. Additionally, Dr. Reyes was the OSU principal investigator for the Westinghouse AP600 and AP1000 certification test programs sponsored by the USNRC, the U.S. Department of Energy and Westinghouse.

Before Duratek, Bob was the founder and CEO of General Technical Services (GTS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Physics Corporation, whose business was to provide support services to the nuclear power industry. GTS was acquired by Duratek in 1990. Prior to GTS, he was an engineer with Gilbert/Commonwealth where he spent 9 years on a wide range of nuclear power projects in Europe, Latin America, Mexico and the USA.

In addition to his BS in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, Bob is a graduate of the U.S. Navy Nuclear Power School, a Certified Naval Nuclear Engineer, and holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance. In 2004, he was conferred an honorary PhD in Commercial Science from The Catholic University of America for his pioneering initiatives in commercializing radioactive waste vitrification technologies.

Paul Genoa is the senior director of policy development at the Nuclear Energy Institute. In this capacity, he helps shape comprehensive energy and environmental policy initiatives and advocates them to lawmakers, NGOs, the media, academic audiences and other key stakeholders. He is also vice chair of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Energy, chartered by Congress to advise the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative.

With three decades of technical, regulatory and policy experience, Genoa is an international authority on energy and environmental issues. He has counseled ministers and delegates at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and its Framework Convention on Climate Change, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Council of Europe, the OECD-Nuclear Energy Agency, the World Energy Congress, the World Energy Forum, and the World Forum on Energy Regulation.

Genoa is also active in the domestic think-tank and policy arena, advocating industry positions to the U.S. Congress and presidential administrations through legislative testimony and regulatory analysis. On the state level, his counsel to governors, legislators and public utility commissioners has sped adoption of measures on energy regulation, safety, finance and other issues critical to the energy industry.

An educator by nature, Genoa has lectured on energy and environmental policy at programs for the Harvard School of Public Health, the University of Florida Public Utility Research Center, the New Mexico State Center for Public Utilities, the University of Idaho’s Utility Executive Training Course, and the Duke University’s Environmental Leadership Program.

His ability to make complex science accessible to a general audience leads to him being frequently quoted in diverse media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, National Public Radio, CNN, Platts Energy Week TV, Popular Mechanics, The Economist, Nature and Discover magazines.

Genoa’s career spans 30 years in the nuclear industry and includes roles as a health physicist at Florida Power Corporation’s Crystal River Nuclear Plant, Arizona Public Service Company’s Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and at the Consumers Power Big Rock Point Atomic Plant in Michigan. He joined NEI in March 1995.

Mr. Genoa holds a B.S. in environmental health from Colorado State University’s School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. He received his M.B.A. from Nova Southeastern University’s School of Business and Entrepreneurship.

Jonathan Hinze is Senior Vice President, International at The Ux Consulting Company, LLC (UxC).  At UxC, he is responsible for a variety of consulting products primarily related to the nuclear fuel and reactor markets.  One of his main areas of focus is nuclear reactor developments and the global nuclear renaissance as well as the impacts of this growth on nuclear fuel demand and the reactor supply chain.  Jonathan joined UxC in 2006 with over five years of experience in the nuclear industry.  His areas of expertise include an in-depth knowledge of the international nuclear marketplace, nuclear technologies, government policies, nonproliferation, and the strong interplay between all of these forces on a domestic and international level.

Before coming to UxC, he worked as Manager, Energy Projects for the International Access Corporation (IAC), a research, consulting and marketing firm with offices in Washington and Tokyo.  At IAC, he was responsible for research projects covering a range of nuclear engineering, policy, regulatory and related issues.  At IAC, Jonathan also shared his time as an external management consultant to a group of U.S. experts working with Japanese nuclear utilities, especially with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on a major nuclear power operations and safety culture improvement project.

Prior to IAC, Jonathan worked nearly four years directly within the Japanese electric power industry, where he gained an excellent background in the international nuclear industry.  As Research Analyst in the Washington office of the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan (FEPC), he handled research on U.S. nuclear policies and industry developments as well as helped to coordinate numerous liaising activities between the Japanese and U.S. nuclear government and industry organizations.

In addition to the above, Jonathan has prior experience in positions in government, industry and education.  He is trilingual (fluent in English, German and Japanese), and has lived, studied, as well as worked in various countries, including the U.S., Germany, and Japan.  Jonathan received a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies from Haverford College and a Master of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy from the George Washington University. 

Mr. Young serves as the Technical Manager for the Tetra Tech Aiken, South Carolina office.  In this role, Mr. Young is responsible for ensuring the quality of technical products, overseeing project managers, and developing business opportunities in critical market sectors.  In this position, Mr. Young is responsible for the success of all the projects worked from the Aiken, South Carolina office, annually worth millions of dollars.

Mr. Young has extensive experience supporting the US Commercial Nuclear Power industry in the preparation of license applications for new nuclear plant construction and operation as well as applications for license renewal for existing nuclear plants.  Mr. Young serves as the Tetra Tech project manager for preparation of Environmental Reports (ERs) for two Combined Operating License (COL) Applications:  South Texas Project Units 3&4 COL Application, and Turkey Point Units 6&7 COL Application ER. 

As part of the Early Site Permit Application process for Southern Company’s Vogtle Units 3&4, Mr. Young provided formal, sworn testimony to the NRC’s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board during the mandatory hearing.  Upon successful completion of the ASLB hearing process, Southern Company received their Early Site Permit from the NRC in August 2009. 

He serves as project manager and as technical lead for environmental reports (ERs), environmental impact statements (EISs), and other NEPA documents for major nuclear facilities. He prepares human health and ecological risk assessments to assess the radiological impacts of nuclear facility operations on members of the public and native animal organisms, including performing fate and transport modeling.  He performs analysis of the radiological and chemical impacts of postulated accident scenarios at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and commercial nuclear facilities.