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Dr. Boyd is a member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Board of Directors. He serves as a member of the NARUC Committee on Electricity, the Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Sequestration, Subcommittee on Education and Research, and Chairs the Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues-Waste Disposal. He is Vice Chair and member of the NRRI Board of Directors, and serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition.

Dr. Boyd serves as Vice Chair of the International Confederation of Energy Regulators (ICER). He currently serves as Vice President of the Eastern Interconnection States' Planning Council (EISPC), the Subcommittee Steering Committee (SSC) of the Eastern Interconnect Planning Collaborative (EIPC). He is a member of the Organization of Midwest ISO States (OMS) Board of Directors and serves as Treasurer. He is also a member of the OMS Executive Committee. He previously co-chaired the Upper Midwest Transmission Development Initiative (UMTDI).

Mark Lombard has over 30 years experience at nuclear power plants and fuel cycle facilities in the areas of engineering, licensing, and security.

In his current position he oversees the NRC's regulatory, licensing, and inspection program for the storage of nuclear reactor spent fuel and the domestic and international transportation of radioactive materials. He manages and conducts safety and environmental reviews of: (1) commercial transportation cask designs under 10 CFR Part 71 and spent fuel storage cask designs under 10 CFR Part 72, including the certification of storage systems under the general license provisions of 10 CFR Part 72; and (2) interim spent fuel and high-level waste storage facilities, including the licensing of nuclear utility specific facilities and private facilities.

He coordinates and develops guidance with other U.S. Government and International Agencies on transportation policy and safety issues, provides guidance to industry and the public, and participates in the development of international transportation and spent fuel storage safety standards.

He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Colorado State University.

Jeff Williams is the Deputy Director for the Office of Used Nuclear Fuel Disposition R &D.

In this role, he is responsible for the management of activities of the Department of Energy’s R&D associated with storage, transportation, and disposal of used nuclear fuel. Previously, he worked for the Department of Energy’s now terminated Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management in several different management positions.

Most recently, he was the manager of the Licensing Support Office that led interactions with NRC on the Yucca Mountain License Application. Previously, he was responsible for activities including: designing and siting the Monitored Retrievable Storage facility, development of the multi-purpose canister system, and development of the Total System Life Cycle Cost and Fee Adequacy reports.

He began his work on the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program by serving as a project manager for the investigation of a repository in salt in Utah.

Prior to initiating his own public affairs consulting business, he led Congressional Liaison efforts of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission successfully articulating the agency’s programs and decisions during a long period of contentiousness and impassioned debate. He participated in official missions to South America, Asia, Europe, and the emerging democracies of the former Soviet Union in direct support of then NRC Chairman Ivan Selin.

His early assignments in NRC included managing headquarters personnel activities. He joined the staff of then-Commissioner Lando Zech in early 1986 and then counseled Chairman Zech on sensitive matters relating to internal investigations, public affairs, congressional affairs, management and personnel.

Prior to joining NRC, Callahan worked in evaluating major components of the nation’s reserve forces at the National Guard Bureau.

Since establishing his practice in 1999, Mike has worked on new reactor licensing issues, radiation detection contract matters, nuclear security and nuclear waste issues, license renewal, and the matters requiring attention in support of new nuclear construction.

He has worked with Commission staff to review to review its regulations regarding export and re-importation of nuclear material, and worked with a client to ensure a visible operating problem had been completely resolved with senior NRC staff. He continues to work with the NRC staff and the Commissioners’ staffs in preliminary discussions regarding the remaining issues facing single unit decommissioning sites, license renewal, spent fuel management, and new reactors.

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John Massari has over 20 years experience working in the areas of engineering and licensing for the commercial nuclear power industry.

In his current position, he supervises a group performing nuclear safety analyses (radiological, criticality, thermo-hydraulic) for the three nuclear sites in the Constellation Energy Nuclear Group fleet. In addition to supporting various used fuel wet and dry storage projects, John has also worked on reactor vessel head and steam generator replacements, power uprates, fuel transitions, and Alternative Source Term implementation.

Prior to joining Constellation in 1999, John worked for B&W/Framatome, where he worked in the Yucca Mountain Waste Package Design group performing criticality safety, shielding, and risk analyses.

He also performed some of the early analyses supporting the license renewal of Calvert Cliffs and plants in the B&W fleet. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1992 from the University of Maryland and completed an SRO Certification at Calvert Cliffs in 2007.

Brian Gustems is the Manager of Fuel Supply & Technical Support for PSEG Nuclear LLC.

In this role, he is responsible for Procurement of Nuclear Fuel front end services (Uranium, Conversion, Enrichment, Fabrication) as well as in reactor fuel performance and spent fuel management. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Gustems spent 8 Years as a Project Manager for Salem and Hope Creek stations, responsible for the Site ISFSI project as well as several other large capital projects. With 3 years in Nuclear Oversight, and 9 years in Nuclear Fuel in a variety of engineering capacities including core design, fuel performance, and spent fuel management.

The American Nuclear Society's 2005 Congressional Fellow, Dr. Loewen worked in the office of Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) where he coordinated the Senator's inclusion of America's first legislation addressing global climate change policy into the Energy Act of 2005.  At the Idaho National Laboratory 1999 - 2006, Eric contributed to development of a Generation IV lead-bismuth cooled reactor and proliferation-resistant thoria-urania fuel, and also supported the President's Climate Change Technology Program.  From 1992 - 1997 he was Director of Research, Molten Metal Technology, in Fall River, MA, where he developed and deployed nuclear applications for hazardous waste management. 

Eric served 10 years in the U.S. Navy from 1982 - 1993 as an Instructor, Nuclear Power School, deployments in the nuclear powered cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9), and as Commanding Officer of two Naval Reserve material support units for combatant units.

Graduating Western State College, Gunnison, CO, with a BA, Mathematics and Chemistry (1983),he subsequently attained MS, Nuclear Engineering (1992) and PhD, Engineering Physics (1999) from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Prior to this role, Mr. Anness had served as Product Manager in the Company’s Nuclear Fuel product line, responsible for spent fuel criticality safety services. Under his technical, product and project leadership, the product line experienced unprecedented growth and underwent significant process improvements. During this time, Mr. Anness also supported disciplined product development efforts – within the integrated development process – for Fuel Engineering.

Mr. Anness has also held positions in Westinghouse’s Nuclear Services product line and in Nuclear Fuel as a nuclear designer responsible for reactor physics activities for various nuclear power plants. His experience includes assisting in the integration of Westinghouse and Combustion Engineering nuclear methods and criticality safety analyses for utility spent fuel management and conducting radiation shielding analyses.

Mr. Anness holds a B.S. in Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering from Kansas State University (KSU) and earned his Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission while attending KSU. He is a certified Westinghouse Customer 1st Green Belt for Development, trained in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) techniques.

Michael is a member of the American Nuclear Society and North American Young Generation in Nuclear (NAYGN).

During his 26-year tenure with Transnuclear, Inc. Dr. Shih has worked as a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Lead Structural Analyst, Project Manager, and Manager of Structural and Thermal Analysis Group.  Since 2008, he has served as Director of Design and Licensing Group, responsible for all design and licensing analysis activities on Metal Cask and NUHOMS projects.  He has worked extensively in structural analysis and fabrication of spent fuel dry storage systems, Type B packaging for transport of irradiated spent fuel, and interim radiological waste storage facilities.  Dr. Shih has special expertise in ANSYS finite element analysis and detailed experience with analytical codes, industry standards and regulatory requirements. 

Dr. Shih is an experienced engineering specialist with a broad knowledge in structural engineering design and fabrication.  Dr. Shih has proven record of performance in Engineering Management and General Engineering at both managerial and principal technical levels.

Mr. Danner has over 40 years of diverse experience in the nuclear energy industry, including the design and licensing of spent fuel storage and transportation systems, fuel handling systems, nuclear steam supply system equipment, including reactor presser vessels, steam generators, primary cooling pumps and commercial power plant primary pressure boundary system; and safety related hardware and system qualification.

Mr. Danner has been with NAC International since 1991, responsible for the management of the design and licensing of nuclear spent fuel storage and transport systems. Early project scopes included the design and licensing of the first large capacity dual purpose spent fuel cask, the NAC-STC, followed by the NAC family of storage and transport systems. In addition to design and licensing of the large capacity spent fuel storage systems, his responsibilities included engineering design and licensing supporting NAC’s spent fuel transportation cask fleet covering both NRC and DOE licenses with over 50 license revisions successfully obtained. Design of facility interface systems include computerized control of automated fuel handling systems and site / application specific cask / facility interface hardware. Mr. Danner was promoted to vice president of engineering in 2002 and has led the design and licensing activities that have taken the industry to the next generation of high capacity spent fuel storage and transport systems with capacities of 37 PWR and 87 BWR fuel assemblies. As of January 2012, Mr. Danner has taken the position of Chief Engineer and is responsible for the technical oversight of spent fuel storage and transportation projects and supporting business development activities.

Prior to joining NAC, Mr. Danner was a section manager with Impell Corporation, an engineering services firm dedicated to providing support to the commercial nuclear utility industry. In this role he was instrumental in the development of the Impell southeast regional office and led engineering design projects activities. Earlier career experience includes engineering design projects with Foster Wheeler, Allis Chalmers with contract support to both Westinghouse and General Electric.
Mr. Danner is a graduate of West Virginia University School of Engineering with a bachelor and master of science degrees in aerospace engineering.

Lake Barrett is a part time independent consultant in the energy field. He has worked in the nuclear energy and nuclear materials management areas for over 4 decades, most recently as the former head of the US Department of Energy’s Office of Civilian Nuclear Waste Management which was responsible for implementing the United Sates’ programs for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, as mandated by the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. In that capacity, he lead the complex scientific Yucca Mountain Geologic Repository program through the statutory site selection process culminating with the Presidential site designation and following successful House and Senate votes before he retired from Federal service.

712 N. Carolina Ave., SE Phone: 202-262-6236
Washington D.C. Email: edavis@pegasusgroup.us

SUMMARY

Senior nuclear industry executive with 38 years of nuclear industry experience, including engineering, management, business development, project finance, marketing and government affairs. Experience includes both large, large GWe scale reactors and small modular reactors (SMRs). Intimate knowledge of a wide range of energy and environmental issues both domestic and internationally coupled with a keen understanding of governmental policymaking, regulatory compliance, state rate making, as well as legislative and political affairs. Subject matter expertise includes technology assessments, nuclear energy development, nuclear fuel cycle economics, uranium enrichment supply/demand, project finance and NRC regulation, spent fuel and waste management. Specific expertise includes NRC Part 52 licensing process as well DOE Nuclear Power 2010, DOE Loan Guarantee and Standby Support, as well as AFCI and GNEP programs.

Pegasus Group Washington, D.C. 2002-Present

President and Managing Director

Responsible for providing strategic consulting services to a wide range of clients in the energy and electric utility industries and Federal agencies in the areas of strategic and program planning, business development and marketing, government procurement, government and regulatory affairs, energy and environmental policy, congressional appropriations and budget processes, state utility rate making and prudency
proceedings. Extensive experience with interfacing with NRC senior management and project management review staff as well as NRC’s construction management and inspection staff. Extensive experience with supporting the DOE Loan Guarantee Office in conducting nuclear project loan guarantee application reviews and related project due diligence credit and risk assessment reviews.

Extensive experience with the new nuclear plant build program, including:

• Technology reviews and assessments of alternative reactor systems, including small modular reactors
• Evaluation of alternative SMR business models and economics
• Risk assessments of proposed new nuclear plant projects
• Due diligence and credit reviews of proposed new nuclear plants
• Development of project execution plans and project management plans
• Evaluation of project management organization and concept of operations
• Evaluation of EPC schedule and budget for contingency adequacy
• Evaluation of EPC contract terms and conditions
• Evaluation of NRC Part 52 licensing strategy
• Evaluation of ITACC compliance program
• Assessment of supply chain and long-lead procurement strategy
• Assessment of workforce development and training strategy and programs
• Evaluation of project financing strategies and economic evaluations of alternative generation options
• Evaluation and tracking of state utility regulatory commission proceedings on new baseload power plants.

Extensive experience with spent fuel and nuclear waste management program,

• Technology reviews and policy assessments on spent fuel storage and disposal options
• Legislative and government affairs support
• Technical program reviews of DOE Yucca Mountain program

NAC International Atlanta, GA 1994-2001

President and Chief Executive Officer

Nuclear engineering, energy consulting, and transportation services company serving the electric and energy industries with offices domestically and worldwide.

• Successfully obtained NRC licenses for three new spent fuel dry cask storage systems and oversaw company’s design, engineering and licensing efforts
• Led and oversaw company’s efforts to manufacture and fabricate and construct and load dry cask storage systems at nuclear power plant sites
• Provided project management oversight over three strategic business units with offices, operations and projects worldwide
• Conducted and provided oversight of numerous nuclear fuel cycle supply/demand assessments, including enrichment and reprocessing
• Turnaround leadership and management on regulatory compliance issues
• Extensive experience interfacing with NRC Office of Nuclear Materials and Safeguards
• Testified before the U.S. Congress and regulatory agencies as expert witness on nuclear energy and environmental policy issues

American Nuclear Energy Council Washington, D.C. 1977-94

President and Chief Executive Officer
Trade association with over 100 members companies representing the nuclear energy industry before the U.S. Congress and the Administration.

• Directed national industry governmental affairs organization
• Directed national lobbying campaigns on critical industry-wide issues,
• Successfully achieved passage of landmark licensing reform legislation
• Testified before U.S. Congress on legislative policy issues and served as industry spokesperson to national media and press
  

NUS Corporation
Senior Consultant
A major energy and environmental consulting firm serving a variety of clients in the energy and environment sectors.

• Responsible for economic and competitive technology evaluations
• Evaluated competitive fuel supply bids

NFS Corporation
Energy Analyst, Corporate.

• Developed technology cost-benefit and economic evaluations

Bechtel Corporation
Licensing Engineer
A major architectural and engineering corporation.

• Responsible for competitive evaluations of power generation technologies
• Responsible for safety evaluations

• B.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia
• M.B.A., George Mason University
• Continuing Education, Harvard Business School
• Continuing Education, Cal-Tech

Boards and Memberships

• American Management Association, Member
• American Nuclear Society, Member
• Associate Member Southern States Energy Board

John has led EPRI’s effort in developing a probabilistic approach to understanding the overall impact of disposing of spent fuel in the candidate repository at Yucca Mountain. This approach has led to insights into where the important uncertainties lie. John is currently on the NEA/OECD Independent Review Team for the proposed spent fuel repository in Sweden.

On the spent fuel storage side, John initiated an international effort to obtain the necessary technical bases to support extended used fuel storage (>60 years). John is leading R&D to develop dry cask storage inspection techniques and the joint development of an extended storage demonstration program for high burnup used fuel.

Born in Madrid (Spain) on July 10th, 1975.

Education:

M.Sc. Industrial Engineering (focused on Energy Techniques) at the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid (Spain)

M.Sc. Civil Engineering (focused on Physics) at the Université Libre of Brussels (Belgium)

Professional experience

ABB Group in several locations inside Spain

Belgonucleaire in Brussels (Belgium)

Currently at the HLW Engineering Dpt. in ENRESA at the HQ in Madrid (Spain), responsible for the Mechanical Equipment and Discipline in the ATC Project and SNF R&D programs for interim storage.

• Deputy Associate Vice President, Dr. Engineering,
• Civil Engineering Research Laboratory
• Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

EDUCATION

• 1988 Graduated Kyoto University
• 1988 Engaged in CRIEPI (from 94-96 temporarily engaged in CEA, FRANCE)
• 1996 Dr. Degree from Kyoto University in the filed of Civil Engineering

EXPERIENCE

• 25 year’s experience of safety evaluation for transport of radioactive materials and dry storage of spent nuclear fuel
• 5 year’s experience of safety evaluation for fire protection research activities

Ken is the Vice President and President-Elect of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM). The INMM is an international NGO whose primary mission is the advancement of best practices associated with nuclear materials management. INMM has over 1000 members that support six technical divisions and 25 regional, international, and student chapters.

Earlier in his career, Ken has served on the ASME Section III Subgroup NUPACK tasked with writing rules for the design of transport cask containment boundaries, the ASTM Committee A4.04 that wrote a material specification for ductile cast iron suitable for nuclear material transportation containers, and an IAEA Consultant Services Meeting (CSM) that wrote a TECDOC on a fracture mechanics methodology for transportation cask design applications. Ken is also currently a member of the Editorial Board for the British publication, Packaging, Transport, Storage & Security of Radioactive Material.

Ken has a BSCE from the University of Arizona (1975), an MSCE (structural) in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University (1982), and an MBA from the University of New Mexico (2000).

Dr Völzke (born 1960) received his German Diplom degree in civil engineering and aircraft construction in 1986 from the Technical University Berlin.
After 5 years of scientific work he received his Ph.D. on his thesis "Strength and weight minimization of fibre-reinforced high-pressure vessels" in 1991.
Since 1991 he is with BAM (Berlin, Germany) and since 2007 head of BAM Division 3.4 Safety of Storage Containers.

Dr Völzke has about 20 years of experience in the field of safety of storage containers for radioactive waste. As expert and responsible authority he is involved in a large variety of design testing and safety assessment procedures for containers and casks designed for all kinds of waste activity levels for interim storage and disposal as well as assessment of quality assurance measures for cask development, manufacturing and operation.

Dr Völzke manages various research projects, e.g. on the development of numerical material models for impact damping materials like wood, damping concrete or polyurethane foam, long-term performance of metal gaskets, and numerical container stress analyses.

Since 2010 he is member of the German Nuclear Waste Management Commission - Committee on Waste Conditioning, Transport and In-terim Storage (ESK-AZ).

He received his B.S. in ceramic science and B.A. in chemistry from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1983, and Ph.D. in ceramic engineering from The Ohio State University in 1987.
Since 1987, Dr. Marra has held various technical staff and management positions at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site (SRS). In his 20+ years service at SRS and SRNL, Dr. Marra has worked in the management and treatment of high-level radioactive waste, development and application of advanced materials, and advanced chemical process applications. He has coauthored numerous publications on the application of ceramic materials in the nuclear industry.

Dr. Marra’s recent work is focused on advanced nuclear fuel cycles and long-term storage, treatment, and disposal of all forms of used nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. He currently serves as a Deputy Director in the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Fuel Cycle Research & Development Technical Integration Office focusing on advanced chemical separations processes and waste form development.Dr. Marra is a Past-President of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS). He is an ACerS Fellow and a past Chair and past Director of the Nuclear & Environmental Technology Division. Dr. Marra also serves on the External Advisory Board for the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University

Tiina Jalonen has graduated from the University of Oulu at Process Engineering faculty. Since 2001, she is Development Manager at Posiva Oy. Posiva is responsible for the site selection, investigation, development, technical design, construction and operation of spent fuel repository for its owners, Teollisuuden Voima Oy and Fortum Power and Heat, which are nuclear power plant operators in Finland.

Jalonen has been widely engaged in the Finnish final disposal programme. She has been working with requirement management of the final disposal and development of engineered barrier system (EBS) which includes disposal canister, buffer, backfill and closure of the disposal facility. She acts as an Area Manager in the co-operation between the Finnish and the Swedish final disposal programmes. She is currently a member of the Steering Group for an alternative disposal concept, KBS-3H.
She also has experience in the metallurgical industry with stainless steel and copper as she worked in the 90's for Outokumpu company.