2017 AGENDA with Presentations
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September 6, 2017
7:00 am Registration and Breakfast Opens
8:00 am Conference Welcome
- David Blee – U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (USNIC)
- Bob Morris – East Tennessee Economic Council (Chair, Nuclear Working Group)
8:15 am Keynote
8:45 am NIC Introduction and Nuclear Power Generation Outlook
Current and Future Nuclear Power Generation/Supplier Landscape
9:15 am What Nuclear Reactor Companies Need (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
- Scott Bailey – VP Supply Chain, NuScale Power & Alternate Presentation
- Jess Gehin – CASL Director, ORNL
9:45 am Required Certifications, Capabilities and Resources – Panel (David Garcia, AMMI-Moderator)
NQA-1 Certification Program and “N” Stamp Certifications:
Recommended Certifications for Non-Safety Components:
Quality Assurance, Audits, and Inspection:
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Becoming an Approved Vendor (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
- Utility Perspective: Bill Fry, Strategic Sourcing Staff, Duke Energy
- Architect Engineering Perspective: Teo Grochowski, AECOM
11:15 am Speed Matching – Session One
Conference attendees give three-minute elevator speeches on company capabilities, components they could provide, including advanced manufacturing interests.
11:30 am Breaking into the Nuclear Power Plant Supply Chain (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
Steps for Successfully Entering the Nuclear Marketplace
- Allen Davidson, Director of Sales and Marketing, Curtiss-Wright Nuclear
- Gard Clark, Operations Manager, Energy and Environment, Teledyne Brown Engineering
- Hash Hashemian, President and CEO, AMS Corporation
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Building a Regional Supply Chain Cluster (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
Discussing: Economic Development Resources and Processes; Economic Impact of a Localized Supply Chain; Prospects for Advanced Manufacturing; and, Prospects for Sub-Module Manufacturing.
- Dwaine Raper, Solutions Consultant Team Leader, UT Center for Industrial Services
- Adam Murray, Senior Target Market Specialist, TVA
- Bill Peter, Director, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), ORNL
2:15 pm Workforce Development – Panel (Keith Fogleman, Entergy-Moderator)
- Keith Fogleman, VP Human Resources, Entergy
- Sherri Buchanan, Senior Project Manager, SMR, TVA
- Howard Hall, Director, Nuclear Security, University of Tennessee
- Chris Whaley, President, Roane State Community College
- Jim Vosburg, Director, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), ORAU
3:15 pm Speed Matching – Session Two
3:45 pm Break
4:00 pm Export Opportunities and Controls – US DOC
4:25 pm New Business Venture
4:45 pm Speed Matching – Session Three
5:00 pm Wrap up and End of Day 1 – Jim Campbell
5:15-7:00 pm Reception
September 7, 2017
7:00 am Breakfast Opens
8:00 am Advanced Reactors Overview
8:30 am Advanced Reactor Development (Dan Ingersoll, NuScale Power-Moderator)
- Pete Pappano, VP, Fuel Production, X-Energy
- Joe Kowalczyk, Nuclear Research Engineer, Southern Company
- Ken Aupperle, High Bridge Associates, GE Prism Multi-Purpose Reactor
- Andy Worrall, Deputy Director, GAIN program, ORNL
- Larry Cutlip, VP Manufacturing, Centrus Energy
9:35 am SMR Powered Micro Grid (Dan Stout, TVA-Moderator)
- Dan Ingersoll, Director, Office of Research Collaborations, NuScale Power – Enhancing the Reliability of Electricity Supply with SMRs
- Sherrell Greene, President, Advanced Technology Insights – rNPPs Resilient Nuclear Power Plants… Enhancing the Value Proposition of Nuclear Energy
- David Barr, Director of Federal Projects, Burns and McDonnell – Building a Micro Grid
- Dan Stout, Senior Manager, SMR, TVA – Solving Two Problems with One Solution
10:20 am Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing (Vince Gilbert, NIC-Moderator)
- Tom Miller, Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. DOE –Slides Only
- Chris Martoglio, COO, Blue Burro, NIC M&SC Working Group – Slides Only
- Rob Akans, Senior Director of Metalworking Technologies, Concurrent Technologies Corporation
- Scott Bailey, Vice President of Supply Chain, NuScale Power
10:50 am Break
11:00 am What Comes Next for Energy? (Eric Abelquist, ORAU-Moderator)
- Dan Stout, Senior Manager, SMR, TVA
- Hash Hashemian, President and CEO, Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS)
- Travis Howerton, Senior Director of Transformation, Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS)
11:45 am Lunch
12:30-4:30 pm Tours
- Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN
- ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), Knoxville, TN
- Y-12 National Security Complex & Centrus Energy, Oak Ridge, TN