Nathaniel Bruns, P.Eng

Experience

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  QTI Group

  May 2005 - Dec 2006

  Junior Research and Design Assistant

  • Assembler and tester of new water production related prototypes that use novel electromagnetic technology to capture moisture that is present in air. • Designer of prototype components for new innovative technologies that were used to increase the energy efficiency of an internal combustion engine via electromagnetism and rotational motion.• 3D drafter of models that were used for prototype design, marketing efforts, and proof-of-concept presentations.

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  BWXT Canada Ltd.

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2022

  Steam Generator Outage Support• Lead LCE for SG inspection and maintenance (I&M) campaigns. Successfully coordinated engineering efforts to supply assessments of ET, UT and visual inspection results to the utility’s engineering group, responded to any emergent fitness-for-service issues, designed new sub-components and authored condition monitoring and operational assessment reports and dispositions all within the constraints of schedule and budget.• On-site LCE at Bruce, Cernavoda, Ginna, D.C. Cook and Calvert Cliffs. Direct involvement in inspection activities and reporting while providing on-site dispositions of results and engineering guidance to component responsible engineers and I&M technical personnelSteam Generator Outage Preparation and Planning• Lead author of the first life cycle management plan at the Cernavoda NGS.• B&W lead reviewer of Bruce Power’s SG LCMP for application as a part of Bruce Power fitness-for-service program.•Author and reviewer of numerous degradation assessments and scope plans for SG designs in both the CANDU and PWR markets.•Author of inspection and maintenance instruction documents for activities such as tubesheet waterlancing, plug weld inspections, tube bundle inspections and steam drum inspections.Engineering Design• Technical lead providing input and oversight to the successful design, fabrication and qualification of: • profilometry tooling for the purposes of assessing flow accelerated corrosion of SG secondary side internals (patent pending). • a water flow loop to mimic reactor shutdown flow conditions for weld overlay tooling design and development. • a SG primary head corner piece clamping dog that prevents introduction of loose parts to the primary heat transport loop and that is installable from only one leg of the primary head.• Participant in the design, testing and validation of a new collapsible plug design for the purposes of diagnosing diodic leak prior to tube burst. Show less

  • Life Cycle and Tube Integrity Engineer

    May 2010 - Sept 2022

  • Life Cycle Engineering Co-op and Part Time Support

    Jan 2007 - Apr 2010
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  Prodigy Clean Energy

  Sept 2022 - now

  Director of Research & Development

  Prodigy Clean Energy is developing next-generation relocatable structure technologies to enable the placement of safe, reliable and clean nuclear power to anywhere where it is needed, on land or in a marine setting. We are bringing together the know-how of the marine manufacturing sector together with the developers of Small Modular Reactor technologies to make this type of dispatchable power a reality.

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  Fourth Frontier Technologies

  Sept 2022 - now

  Founding Partner