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Principal Consultant / Management Consultant
Professional Qualification Summary
Mr. Wood has over 30 years of commercial nuclear power industry experience related to licensing, analysis, assessments, design, and operational support derived from work at a reactor vendor, a major A/E, and a senior level consulting company. His specialties include maintenance and use of current licensing bases, independent technical and program reviews, facility safety analysis, design basis document (DBD) programs, environmental qualification, probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), nuclear plant fire protection safe shutdown analysis, non-fire safe shutdown risk analysis, 10 CFR 50.59 reviews, licensing support for design and operational issues, and project management of complex multi-discipline engineering problems.
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His experience during seven years with an NSSS vendor included reactor control and protection system functional design, plant accident and transient response simulation, and plant and containment level PRAs. His experience during eight years with a major A/E included assisting 11 nuclear utilities at 13 plants in performing PRAs, safe shutdown system analyses, hazards analysis, environmental qualification (EQ), and DBD activities. His consulting experience includes design and licensing basis, configuration control, fire protection, EQ, station blackout, safety analysis, PRA, and system design issue-related tasks for 12 nuclear utilities at 13 plants.
Mr. Wood is a registered professional engineer in three states, a Certified Energy Manager, and a certified lead auditor. He also serves as the non-university member on the University of Michigan Ford Nuclear Reactor Safety Review Committee.
Education
MSE Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, 1974
BS Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1973
Experience
| 1990 - present |
Vice President and Principal Consultant, Advent Engineering Services.
Recent accomplishments include providing senior consulting services related to non-LOCA accident analysis in support of a new reactor NRC Design Certification, performing reviews in support of recent NRC Design Basis Threat security orders, supporting the design and licensing of a dry fuel storage facility, and serving as one of five commercial nuclear power experts in the independent licensing review of the Yucca Mountain waste repository's surface facility that will accept and pre-process nuclear waste for underground storage.
Managed and participated in nine DBD preparation, validation, and open item resolution projects for four nuclear utilities; resolved technical issues, reviewed procedures for effectiveness, and provided technology transfer and training related to nuclear safety analysis for six major projects at a multi-unit nuclear plant site; facilitated an engineering process improvement benchmarking program for a nuclear utility, and performed an independent assessment of a UFSAR Validation Project and a UFSAR Accident Analysis Chapter 15 Rewrite Project.
Was a principal author of a nuclear plant Owner's 1996 10 CFR 50.54(f) design configuration letter response and has subsequently supported UFSAR validation projects and configuration control enhancements in response to the resulting commitments. Performs special assignments to support licensees in addressing high-profile NRC generic and plant-specific emergent issues, as well as managing and technically supporting nuclear plant fire protection program rebaseline and enhancement projects for several nuclear sites. As VPQA (head of Advent's Corporate Quality Assurance Program), is responsible for performing independent assessments and audits of Advent's quality projects. |
| 1989 - 1990 |
Senior Project Manager, TENERA, L.P. Provided project management,
supervision, and technical support on a variety of projects, including utility
regulatory interface leadership for meeting fire protection program requirements,
DBD preparation and verification; fire protection safe shutdown analysis,
regulatory program assessments, Equipment Qualification program improvement;
Station Blackout; operational readiness reviews; and Q-List improvement. |
| 1981 - 1989 |
Nuclear Operating Plant Service Group Leader, Bechtel Power Corporation.
Bechtel Power Corporation. Supervised and participated in numerous
projects and tasks, including developing DBD project plans, procedures,
and DBDs; supervising a design standard development project; performing
independent technical reviews of utility fire protection and DBD development
programs; and preparing and updating Appendix R fire protection design documents,
design basis documents, licensing submittals, and plant design change safety
evaluations. Served concurrently as the Bechtel corporate product
line manager for PRA/IPE services and as co-product line manager for nuclear
fire protection services and for DBD services. |
| 1974 - 1981 |
Senior Safety Analysis & Risk Assessment Engineer, Westinghouse
Electric Corporation. Responsible for developing PRA methods for applications
in nuclear plant design and licensing; developing fault tree and event tree
analysis software; performing fault and event tree analysis; devel�oping
economic risk models to evaluate design alternatives; and conducting in-house
and client PRA training. |
Awards, Certifications & Special Appointments
Awards
- Penn State University Outstanding Engineering Alumnus Award (2005)
- ANS Michigan Section Nuclear Professional of the Year (1999)
- Recipient of Bechtel Corporate Special Performance Award (1987)
- Recipient of ANS Special Committee on New Construction Certificate of Appreciation
- Charter Member of the Eagle Alliance
Certifications
- Certified Business Energy Professional (BEP), Certification by the Association
of Energy Engineers, ID# 425 (2005)
- Certified Energy Manager, Certification by the Association of Energy Engineers,
ID# 10442 (2003)
- Professional Engineer: Michigan (1982), Illinois (1986), and Ohio (1992)
- ANSI N45.2.23 and NQA-1-1989 Certified Lead Auditor (1992)
Special Appointments
- Yucca Mountain Preclosure Safety Analysis Review Team (2004)
- University of Michigan Ford Nuclear Reactor Safety Review Committee (1995
- present) and Decommissioning Committee (2004-present)
Publications
- "Microscopic Void Characterization for Assessing Aging of Electric Cable
Insulation Used in Nuclear Power Stations," IEEE Conference on Electrical
Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (CEIDP 2000), October 2000, by DA Horvath,
DC Wood, and MJ Wylie.
- "Are You Managing Your Information or Your Paper? - Letting Go of the Page
Paradigm", ANS 2002 Annual Meeting Transactions, 9-13 June 2002, Hollywood,
FL
- "Risk Assessment for Aircraft Electrical Interconnect Subsystems", International
Conference on Wire System Aging, 23-25 April 2002
- "Aiding Plant Modification with Design Basis Documents," Nuclear Engineering
International Magazine, May 1988
- "Controlling Design Bases Inputs to Plant Modifications," ANS International
Meeting on Nuclear Power Plant Operation Transactions (TANSAO 54-Supplement
1)
- "Using Event Trees to Quantify the Effect of Post-TMI Modifications on PORV-Related
LOCA Probability," ANS/ENS Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Transactions, September 1981
- WCAP-9804, "Probabilistic Analysis and Operational Data in Response to NUREG-0737
Item II.K.3.2 for Westinghouse NSSS Plants," February 1981
- WCAP-9226, "Reactor Core Response to Excessive Secondary Steam Releases"
(Steamline Break Topical Report), January 1978
Professional Affiliations
- American Nuclear Society (ANS)
- Co-Chair of 2002 International Topical Meeting on Probablistic Safety
Assessment (PSA'02)
- Past member Local Sections & Power Division Program Committees
- Past Chair of Michigan Section
- Organizer, chair and/or panelist for national ANS meeting sessions on
Process Improvement, 10 CFR 50.59 Implementation, and Design Basis Documentation
- American Society for Quality (ASQ)
- Tau Beta Pi and Phi Eta Sigma Engineering Honorary Societies
- Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honorary Society
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