Nuclear Engineering
Resume:
THOMAS J. CAHILL
Goodyear, Arizona 85395
919-***-**** (c)
******@*******.***
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering, May 1980 – University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA Master of Science in Energy Engineering, May 1986 – University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA REGISTRATION
Registered Professional Engineer – California
National/International Patent Application – “Control Arrangement for Use with Nuclear Fuel” INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Westinghouse Electric Company, Rock Hill, SC (July 2009 – December 2015) Core Engineering. Specific responsibilities included: Nuclear Physics
• Fuel management for new core designs
• Prepare commercial reactor safety analyses including shutdown margin, control rod worth, rod ejection, post-LOCA analyses, reactivity coefficients, steamline break analyses, boron dilution, cold models, etc.
• Lead Engineer for preparing operations analyses and issuing nuclear design reports Progress Energy, Raleigh, NC (September 2006 – July 2009) Nuclear Fuel Management & Safety Analysis – BWR Group. Specific responsibilities included: Nuclear Physics
• Prepare shutdown margin analysis for core shuffle during refueling
• Prepare Core Operating Limits Report
• Development of the criticality safety requirements for new and spent fuel storage
• Monthly exposure accounting and isotopic analyses to assess core depletion parameters
• Reload engineering change support
• Lead Engineer for nuclear criticality safety engineering Plant Operations Support
• Develop a computer program for control rod improvement/sequence exchange
• Reactor startup-cold critical analysis
• CASMO-4 fuel assembly models and MICROBURN-B2 core models for training simulator programming Arizona Public Service Company, Tonopah, AZ (March 1998 – August 2006) Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS) – Nuclear Fuel Management Department. Specific responsibilities included:
Nuclear Design
• Lead Engineer for fuel management/core design using XIMAGE/SIMAN and CASMO/SIMULATE
• Lead Engineer for CEA failure assessment and the development and implementation of replacement CEAs with an extended licensed lifetime
• Lead Engineer for the preparation of Core Data Books
• Prepare benchmark analyses for licensing CASMO-4/SIMULATE-3 at Palo Verde
• Provide as-built core models and reactor startup test predictions
• Generate physics input to safety analyses (i.e. scram worth, ejected rod worth, peaking factors, etc.)
• Develop physics models for HERMITE transient analyses for the loss of RCS flow events Nuclear Safety Analysis
• Lead Engineer for the safety analyses basis for reconstituting failed fuel assemblies
• Lead Engineer for control rod withdrawal design basis transient analysis
• Responsible Engineer for core reload and startup analyses including core design, master set point overall uncertainty analysis, Physics Design Assessment, and other Safety Analysis Bases Documents Page 2 of 2
Plant Operations Support
• Criticality safety assessment for spent fuel dry cask storage
• Provide technical support during power maneuvers and startups
• Support Reactor Engineering to respond to plant trips and system anomalies Lockheed Martin Utility Services Inc., Paducah, KY (October 1995 – March 1998, “L” security clearance) Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) – Nuclear Safety Department. Specific responsibilities included: Criticality Safety Analysis
• Attended Nuclear Criticality Safety (NCS) qualification training at Oak Ridge National Lab
• Prepare NCS analyses and review new operations requirements for uranium enrichment process systems and fissile waste management operations
• Lead Nuclear Safety Engineer for implementation of NCS requirements in all plant procedures based on the associated safety analyses developed for NRC certification at increased U-235 enrichment output from 2.0 w/o to 5.5 w/o
Licensing/Compliance
• Engineering Department representative on the plant Regulatory Performance Improvement Team to identify the causes of poor regulatory compliance/repeated problems and establish corrective actions
• Preparation and assessment of numerous unreviewed safety question determinations, plant change requests, criticality incident reports, and other analyses to support NRC compliance of new NCS requirements
• Changes to the SAR, TSR, and other regulatory reports and documents to support NRC compliance issues, regulatory commitments, and notices of violation Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., Englewood, CO (June 1995 – October 1995) Employed under contract. Specific responsibilities included: Nuclear Safety Analysis
• Neutron and gamma shielding design for the Rocky Flats Waste Stabilization Project
• Methods for processing and storing and transuranic fissile materials and highly radioactive wastes generated during production of materials for nuclear weapons to support the decommission of the plant Florida Power and Light Company, Juno Beach, FL (September 1987 – January 1995) Core Engineering and Reactor Support Groups – Nuclear Fuel Resources Department. Specific responsibilities included:
Nuclear Physics
• Core design and reactor transient analyses to support refueling
• Analyze and develop alternative methods to expand spent fuel storage capacity
• Verification and validation of all computer codes used for nuclear analyses
• Detailed Monte Carlo analysis of the failed BoraflexTM neutron poison in high-density SFP storage racks Plant Operations Support
• Reactor startup support including core refueling and power ascension testing
• Plant change/modification packages for 10CFR 50.59 compliance
• Core follow calculations and core flux mapping
• Establish the operating/design criteria to allow reactor startup without neutron sources
• Perform spent fuel pool heat-up calculations to support refueling outage testing
• Development of several computer codes used to calculate miscellaneous reactor operating data such as spent fuel heat generation and incore detector burnup calibrations Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, MA (June 1980 – October 1985) Radiation Protection Group and Project Engineering. Principal responsibilities included: Plant Design, Licensing, Startup & Operations Support
• Lead Engineer for post-accident environmental qualification of safety-related equipment
• Lead Engineer for implementing ALARA design for systems operation and radiation shielding
• Lead Engineer for the review and approval of engineering design changes proposed for startup testing
• System Engineer for the design of several fluid systems while assigned PWR and BWR projects
• Post-accident off-site dose calculations
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