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Carolina Metals Incorporated; Barnwell, SC: Electrical and Mechanical Design for nuclear pilot plant that processes depleted uranium.  Provided utilities to various proprietary equipment utilizing 480V, 3-phase busway, motor starters, transformers, HEPA filtering, argon gas, propane gas, and chilled water.
Tritium Processing Facility, Savannah River Site (SRS); Aiken, SC: Electrical design of fire alarm system and lighting for tritium processing metallurgical laboratory.  Developed contract documents for competitive bidding.  Worked closely with SRS fire protection engineers and electrical engineers from General Physics Corporation.

Video Recording Studio, Savannah River Site (SRS); Aiken, SC:
Electrical design of power distribution, lighting, and video/audio cabling for recording studio.


UT-Batelle LLC., Spallation Neutron Source Target Systems, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Oak Ridge, TN:
Conducted seismic evaluations and developed vendor qualification criteria for cryogenic hydrogen transfer lines located within the Target Core Vessel.  Work included establishing the probabilistic seismic hazard for the vessel based on a 10,000 year seismic event.

Knight Advanced Technologies; Chicago, IL:
  Conducted seismic analyses, including soil-structure interaction effects, for Department of Energy Spallation Neutron Source Facility.  Developed analytical models and distributed seismic loads to lateral load resisting structural elements. 


Chem-Nuclear Corp; Columbia, SC:
  Conducted high energy pump vibration investigation of barge skid mounted reverse osmosis environmental cleanup module.  Vibrations were found to be caused by pump cavitation and resulted in resizing of  pump intake lines.


Northeast Utilities, Millford Unit 3 NPP; Waterford, CN:
  Technical Consultant investigating containment building settlement due to deterioration of underdrain high alumina content porous concrete and piping.  Developed plan to extract underdrain concrete cores for testing and evaluation.  Conducted analyses, evaluated results and wrote safety evaluation report.


Westinghouse Savannah River Company; Aiken, SC:
  Technical Consultant to Structural Mechanics Group at the DOE Savannah River Defense Site.  Developed structural capacities and conducted seismic soil-structure analyses for large reinforced concrete buildings and underground waste storage tanks.  Developed seismic criteria for structure and equipment evaluations.  Evaluated process critical site buildings for seismic and high wind effects. Wrote and updated structure vulnerability summary reports and CSI specifications.  Conducted system interaction walkdowns and seismic margin and fragility evaluations. 


Korea Power Engineering Company, Ulchin 3 and 4 Nuclear Power Plants; Seoul, Korea:
  Resident seismic consultant assisting in developing synthetic ground motions incorporating 1989 revision to the USNRC Standard Review Plan. Conducted rock-structure interaction studies for structures founded on varying site conditions and presented results to Korean licensing agency.  Reviewed design specifications and criteria for reactor coolant system and reactor vessel internals design.


Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN:
  Project Engineer for natural hazard (tornado winds and earthquake) evaluations of defense critical and hazardous material processing facilities.  Work included developing acceptance criteria and conducting analytical hazard analyses consistent with DOE guidelines.


Tennessee Valley Power Authority, Watts Bar and Sequoyah Nuclear Power Stations; Knoxville, TN:
  Project engineer for seismic evaluation of in-place line run cable tray, conduit and air handling systems.  Analyses included nonlinear low-cycle fatigue evaluations of system flexible rod supports.  Reorganized Civil/Structural design criteria.  Conducted analytical review of dynamic analyses evaluating the effects of postulated accident hydrodynamic loads on toroidal containment structure.


Texas Utilities Generating Companies, Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station; Fort Worth, TX:
Consultant to TERA Corporation, Berkeley, CA.  Conducted independent review of NNPP structures and equipment designs including the containment mat design, storage tanks, underground systems, high energy pipe restraints, and reactor vessel and steam generator designs.

General Public Utilities, Three Mile Island Unit 2 Nuclear Power Station; Parsippany, NJ: Designed removable seismic restraint and anchorage system for unloading system used in removing debris from damaged reactor vessel.

United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Office; Norton, CA:
  Task manager for nuclear hardness and survivability studies in support of a deep underground missile basing project.  Studies included non-linear finite element analyses, detailed design for tunnel stability, and design of equipment shock isolation concepts subjected to postulated nuclear events.


Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, Perry Nuclear Station; Cleveland, OH:
Conducted large scale finite element thermal stress analysis of reactor vessel refueling seal table for increased operating temperatures.  Conducted seismic analyses of reactor building and diesel generator buildings to address licensing concerns regarding interior structural eccentricities and soil-­structure interaction effects.  Presented training sessions on seismic qualification of equipment.  Conducted analytical and design review of structural systems subjected to hydrodynamic loadings.


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