James Becka, P.E., P.M.P.

Experience

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  US Navy

  Jul 1979 - Jul 1984

  Commisssioned Officer - Submarine Warfare

  Submarine Engineering Officer • Qualified Nuclear Engineer officer by Naval Reactors, Naval Sea Systems Command; qualified in Submarine Warfare; sea duty, new construction, and shipyard overhaul experience aboard USS OHIO (SSBN 726).

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  We Energies

  Aug 1984 - Jan 2001

  Supervising Engineer, Dry Fuel Storage Group (1999 to 2009)• Direct oversight and procurement, production and engineering of fourteen (14) VSC-24 Dry Cask Storage canisters.• Responsible for operational loading of nine (9) VSC-24 canisters utilizing internal resources at large savings to plant ($1MM / campaign).• 50.59 and 72.48 process mentor for site.Senior Engineer, Dry Fuel Storage Group (1997 to 1999)Senior Engineer, License Renewal Group (1996)• Senior engineer of team that recovered Point Beach from May 1996 hydrogen burn event to restoration of dry cask loading operations• Engineering oversight, design, procurement, fabrication, and maintenance of VSC-24 dry cask storage system; Procedure Development• 50.59 and 72.48 change process mentor for site.• Assessed plant components and systems for life cycle maintenance in response to pilot NRC license renewal programRegulatory Services and Operating Experience Coordinator (1992-1996) • Responsible for on-site regulatory interface, corrective action system (including incident investigation and human performance evaluation), emergency planning, and site security.• Conceived and implemented Root Cause evaluation processes and Corrective Action trending at PBNP. Show less Project Engineer - Safety Evaluation Group (1990 to 1992)• Led the startup of a three-engineer group dedicated to assessment of nuclear safety in two areas: nuclear safety evaluations of facility changes and outage safety assessment• Conceived / performed the first outage safety assessment at Point Beach Senior Licensing Engineer (1984 to 1990)• Interface and correspondence with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission headquarters; maintenance of the PBNP facility description, technical specifications and licensing bases• Special projects related to the annual refueling outages. Show less

  • Supervising Engineer, Dry Fuel Storage Group; Senior Engineer; Regulatory Services Coordinator

    Jan 1992 - Jan 2001

  • Project Engineer - Safety Evaluation Group; and Senior Licensing Engineer

    Aug 1984 - Jan 1992
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  US Navy Reserve

  Jan 1985 - Dec 2008

  Commissioned Officer - Engineering Duty Officer

  Engineering Duty Officer• Selected for command for four (4) terms. Retired rank: CAPTAIN (O-6)• Led a team responsible for writing an Environmental Assessment (EA) for a U.S. Navy R&D project. ($1MM savings).

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  NextEra Energy Resources

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2009

  Project Manager (PM) & Supervising Engineer

  • PM in Site Projects Department and Supervisor for Dry Fuel Storage Group • Evaluated, selected, and implemented $20 MM second-generation NUHOMS Dry Storage System (for spent nuclear fuel) for PBNP.• Oversaw procurement, production and engineering of fourteen (14) NUHOMS canisters. Attained NRC approval for startup.• Responsible for operational loading of Nine (9) NUHOMS canisters utilizing internal resources at large savings to plant ($2MM / short campaign).• PM for NRC Security Order B.5.b Implementation at PBNP (nuclear 911 scenario). $5MM project of high regulatory scrutiny. • PM for regulatory-driven Cyber Security project at PBNP• Mentor for 50.59 and 72.48 Safety Evaluation processes at PBNP• Qualified Root Cause evaluator, Corrective Action Coordinator, Procedure Writer, Contractor Manager.• Emergency Response Organization role at State of Wisconsin Emergency Operations Center (represented utility / plant). Show less

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  Xcel Energy

  Feb 2009 - Feb 2016

  Project Manager – 2013 and 2018 Monticello Dry Fuel Storage Projects

  • PM in Xcel Energy Nuclear Projects Group responsible for planning, fabrication, construction, preparations for, and conduct of two multi-year projects, the 2013 and 2018 ISFSI dry fuel storage loading projects (ten (10) NUHOMS® dry fuel storage systems in each project) ($75 MM)• Task Manager for loading of four (4) TN-40HT vertical / bolted design casks

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  Exelon Nuclear

  Apr 2016 - Aug 2016

  Dry Fuel Storage Loading Campaign Coordinator

  • Responsible for coordination and execution of two NUHOMS®-61BTH Loading Campaigns (seven (7) canisters) at two sites utilizing mixed crew (in-house and contract) labor. Night shift Rep for Sr. Program Manager - Spent Fuel Management Limerick and Oyster Creek Generating Stations

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  TransWare Enterprises Inc.

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2018

  Senior Consultant

  Project/Program management expert to engineering consulting company specializing in fluence analysis and DFS back-end fuel cycle management

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  TN Americas, LLC

  Apr 2017 - now

  On-site manager for a twenty-person team conducting the loading of spent nuclear fuel into fourteen (14) NUHOMS 61BTH Dry Fuel Storage canisters. This allows passively safe, dry, above-ground temporary storage of 854 highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Station. On-site Manager for a twenty-person team conducting the loading of spent nuclear fuel into twelve (12) NUHOMS 61BTH Dry Fuel Storage canisters. This allows passively safe, dry, above-ground temporary storage of 732 highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies at the Cooper Nuclear Station site.

  • Project Coordinator

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Project Coordinator

    Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
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  Exelon Generation

  Jun 2018 - Oct 2018

  Project Manager

  NUHOMS Dry Cask Loading Campaign