Election Slate
Vice Chair/ Chair Elect
Jeff Gorman nominated for Vice Chair by Dr. Jane LeClair, Vice Chair
Secretary: 1 of 2
Lindsey W. Cooke nominated for Secretary by Matt Dennis, Public Information Committee Chair
Secretary 2 of 2
Phil Benavides nominated for Secretary by Dr. Jane LeClair, Vice Chair
Treasure 1 of 2
Trey Hathaway nominated by Suzanne Dennis, Treasure
Treasure? 2 of 2
Jim Behrens nominated for Treasure by Dr. Jane LeClair, Vice Chair
Member at Large 1 of 3
Kevin Witt nominated for Member at Large by Dr. Jane LeClair, Vice Chair
Member at Large 2 of 3
Gene Carpenter self nominated for Member at Large
Member at Large 3 of 3
Martin Nelson nominated for Member at Large by Jim Behrens, Chair
Biographies
Nominated for Vice Chair/ Chair Elect
Jeff Gorman
JEFFREY A. GORMAN, BCE, MS, PhD, PE
Dr. Gorman studied civil engineering at Cornell, with emphasis on structures, before being assigned by the U.S. Navy to Naval Reactors.? At Naval Reactors he worked on design and maintenance issues related to nuclear reactor propulsion equipment.? After leaving Naval Reactors in 1965, he did graduate work in engineering science, with emphasis on materials science, at CalTech.? Since 1968 he has worked as a consulting engineer, with most of his work involving materials, corrosion, water chemistry, stress analysis, fracture mechanics, and failure analysis.? Much of his work has been for the civilian nuclear power industry, but it has also involved work on DOE reactors, fossil power plants, offshore oil facilities, pipelines, and structures.
In 1980, Dr. Gorman was a co-founder of Dominion Engineering, Inc. (DEI) located in Reston, VA.? He retired from the company at the end of 2005, but he continues to work for the company on a contract basis.? A significant part of his consulting work while working for DEI has been for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).? His work for EPRI has included preparation of many workshop proceedings involving PWR steam generator technology, preparation of topical reports on materials and corrosion issues, and assisting in revision of water chemistry guidelines.? He has also worked extensively for utilities and other industrial organizations on materials and corrosion issues, such as evaluation of the causes of failures of heat exchanger tubes, pressure vessels, piping, bolting, and other structural components.
Dr. Gorman has been a member of ANS for many years, and currently is a co-chair of the Education Committee of DC Section of ANS.
Nominated for Secretary
1?of 2
Lindsey W. Cooke nominated for Secretary
Lindsey W. Cooke
194 Halpine Rd. Apt 2104, Rockville, Maryland 20852 ? lwcooke3@gmail.com – 678-557-2719
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering awarded December 2014
Overall GPA: 3.83
Bachelor of Science in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering with highest honors awarded December 2013
Overall GPA: 3.92
Experience
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)?Office of Research, Division of Systems Analysis, Accident Analysis Branch
Mechanical Engineer: 07/15?Present
- MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System (MACCS) Verification: Created mathematical models duplicating the calculations MACCS performs to verify the code, documented findings in a draft NUREG. Verified atmospheric transport and dispersion. Verification of emergency response and long-term protective actions, exposure pathways, health effects, and economic costs in progress.
- User Needs: Consolidated and organized AAB?s user needs. Worked with branch members to maintain documentation.
- Division of Systems Analysis (DSA) Research Plan: Drafted DSA research plan, and established a project plan collaborating with the Accident Analysis Branch (AAB) and Fuel and Source Term Code Development Branch (FSCB) to document both the requirements to maintain MELCOR and MACCS and the ways the codes support other program offices.
- MACCS Working Group: Organize and run the MACCS interoffice working group meetings. These meetings facilitate interoffice communication by bringing MACCS users from different offices (RES, NRR, NRO, NSIR) together to update them on code developments.
NRC Rotation to Region II?Division of Reactor Projects, Reactor Projects Branch 6
Project Engineer: 11/15?02/16
- Reviewed allegation documentation and developed probing questions for licensees
- Developed closure responses and represented the branch?s interests at Allegation Review Board meetings
- Assisted in preparation of Reactor Oversight Process, End of Cycle plant assessments, drafted End of Cycle letters
- Prepared Regional Administrator?s Briefing Packets for TVA site visits
- Supported Sequoyah containment closeout inspections and Vogtle 3 & 4 welding inspections
Student Engineer: 05/14?08/14
- MACCS SQA Verification: developed models to verify atmospheric transport and dispersion, as well as early health effects
- Documented report for NUREG and presented findings to Office Director
- Tested and obtained approval for latest version of MACCS for NRC use
Southern Nuclear Company (SNC) ? Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant, Baxley, Georgia
Reactor Engineering Intern: 05/12 ? 08/12?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
- Evaluated procedural compliance with Reactivity Controls Review Committee
- Supported Reactor Engineering system walk downs
- Developed core modeling scenarios for a sequence exchange and a hydraulic control unit repair
- Diagnosed and inventoried equipment for plant cyber security
- Developed core trending and monitoring code
- Inventoried Special Nuclear Materials
- Participated in Dry Cask Loading Campaign and emergency preparedness drills
American Nuclear Society: Member: National and Georgia Tech chapters 09/09 – Present
- Financial Committee member for 2011 American Nuclear Society (ANS) National Student Conference
- Prepared filing to establish Georgia Tech chapter of ANS as a 501c(3) organization
- Solicited sponsorship and funding for Georgia Tech chapter
- Georgia Tech Chapter Public Outreach campaigns:
- Boy Scout Merit Badge, National Nuclear Science Week, Earth Day
MTU Educare of Georgia: Tutor 08/07 – 05/09
- Provided one on one tutoring in Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Algebra 2
- Intensively tutored twenty students over the course of two years with great success
Study Abroad Program Georgia Institute of Technology, Alsace ? Lorraine 05/13 ? 08/13
- Involved three months of study in Metz France, with extensive travel throughout the European Union
Training and Skills
- Coding: MACCS, RASCAL, FORTRAN, MATLAB, EES, ANSYS Structural Analysis, Excel, HotSpot, CAP88
- P-105: Probabilistic Risk Assessment Basics for Regulatory Application
- R-104P: Westinghouse Systems Overview
- H-117: Introductory Health Physics
- Technical Writing
Nominated for Secretary
2 of 2
Phil Benavides nominated for Secretary
Philip Benavides is the Chief Manager of Marketing for JSC NAC KazAtomProm in Bethesda, Maryland. He spends his time advising KazAtomProm’s marketing division on the North American uranium market.
Phil previously worked for Exelon, Constellation Energy and Westinghouse Electric Company. He has filled roles supporting probability risk assessment, fuel procurement and used fuel management efforts.
Phil managed Constellation’s fuel procurement program and was responsible for Constellation’s 2011 settlement associated with delayed acceptance of Calvert Cliff Nuclear Power Plant’s used fuel by the U.S. Government.
Phil graduated from Purdue University in 2002 with a degree in nuclear engineering. He was the ANS Student Chapter president in 2001-2002 and served as the NAYGN Awards Chair from 2009-2011.
Nominated for Treasure
1 of 2
Alfred (Trey) Hathaway III nominated for Treasure
Dr. Trey Hathaway joined the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in November 2014 as a Reactor Systems Engineering in the Accident Analysis Branch of the Division of Systems Analysis in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research.? While there, he has been learning the accident progression and source term simulation code MELCOR and the consequence analysis code MACCS.? He has been monitoring the development of a MELCOR model for the APR1400 for use in confirmatory calculations of KHNP?s design certification application.? Additional work has involved investigating uncertainty analysis techniques and calculation methodologies, which he has been applying to MELCOR calculations.
Prior to joining the NRC, Dr. Hathaway worked on B&W?s mPower small modular reactor design as a core physics design engineer.? There he worked on supporting calculations for the mPower design certification document related to characterizing the core, startup and core loading, and ex-core detectors.
Dr. Hathaway graduated from North Carolina State University with a Master?s and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering.? He also obtained a Bachelor?s Degree in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State.? His Master?s and Ph.D. work were related to the development of a reactor based positron beam using NC State?s PULSTAR reactor and a pulsed slow positron spectrometer for use in the non-destructive characterization of defects in materials.
Nominated for Treasure
2 of 2
James W. Behrens nominated for Treasure
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U.S. Navy – retired, The Pentagon, Washington, DC.? BS, University of Illinois (1970); MS and PhD/ABD, University of California (1976 and 1978).? Previous positions::? Senior National Security Analyst, DoD Contractors, Washington, DC (2003-2009);? Executive Assistant on DoD, DoE, and DoS Working Groups (1991-2001);? Scientific Technical Advisor, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Strategic Plans & Policy, International Negotiations (1989-1991);? Experimental Nuclear Physicist, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD (1978-1989); Physicist & Graduate Student, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA (1970-1978); Lab Assistant, U. of I. Betatron Lab (1968-1970).? Numerous publications on nuclear fission and neutron radiography. Member: AAAS, ACS, INMM.
ANS:? Member since 1978. Organizer & Technical Program Co-Chair for international topical conference entitled, “50 Years with Nuclear Fission” (1989); Assistant General Co-Chair for 2013 ANS Winter Meeting in DC, ?The 75th Anniversary of the Discovery of Nuclear Fission.?; Organizer for 2014 ANS Winter Meeting in Anaheim, ?The 60th Anniversary of ANS.?; Assistant General Co-Chair for 2015 ANS Winter Meeting in DC; Chair of NNTG/NNPD Division Transition Committee (2014-present); Chair of NNPD Honors & Awards Committee administering ?The Dwight D. Eisenhower Award? (2014-present);Vice Chair/Chair of Washington, DC Local Section (2014-2016); Executive Committee Member, NNTG (2013-2014), NNPD (2015-2018;.Recipient of ANS Presidential Citation (2014).
Nominated for Member at Large
1 of 3
Kevin Witt nominated for Member at Large
Kevin Witt is an Engineering Project Manager in the Japan Lessons Learned Division of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Kevin is responsible for coordinating regulatory actions to enhance reactor safety as a result of lessons learned from the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident. Kevin has been with the NRC since 2003 and has been a reactor inspector, project manager, and safety concerns coordinator. Kevin completed his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and his Master?s Degree in Mechanical/Nuclear Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.
Kevin has been actively involved with the Washington, DC section of ANS since 2004 and has served as the secretary, membership chair, dinner meeting coordinator, Vice-Chair and Chair of the Section. While Kevin was Chair of DC-ANS during the 2010-2011 program year, the local section received the best overall local section meritorious award from ANS. Kevin was elected this year as a member at large and is currently assisting as the temporary Secretary.
Nominated for Member at Large
2 of 3
Gene Carpenter nominated for Member at Large
C.E. (Gene) Carpenter, Jr., is the International Team Leader in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission?s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRC:NRR).? He has been with the NRC since 1990, and has held several positions with progressively more responsibilities in licensing, technical reviews, and policy development.? In his present position, he manages the day-to-day international programmatic activities associated with regulatory issues, and provides advice to NRR staff and management on international activities.
Previously, as a Group Lead and Senior Materials Engineer in the Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research (RES), he developed and managed the NRC?s anticipatory and confirmatory aging degradation research programs that focused on limited-knowledge and high-risk areas related to long-term (i.e., beyond 60 years) safe operation of nuclear power plants in anticipation of subsequent license renewal requests.? He served as Chairman Nils Dias? International Technical Assistant; as a TA to the RES Director; and, as a Licensing Project Manager.? Prior to joining the NRC, he served aboard two nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines in the U.S. Navy and then worked for the U.S. Department of Defense at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard overhauling and refurbishing nuclear submarines.
Mr. Carpenter has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Seattle University, his MS from Johns Hopkins University, an MA from George Washington University, and is presently a doctoral candidate focusing on nuclear policy and governance issues.
He is a member of the American Nuclear Society where he has been actively involved in standards development as the Chair of the Large LWR Consensus Committee (LLWRCC) and previously as the Chair of ANS-21, Maintenance, Operations, Testing & Training, for the Nuclear Facilities Standards Committee (NFSC).? Mr. Carpenter is the Chair of the ANS?s Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) and has been the Chair of the ANS?s Environmental Sciences Division (now the Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences Division), is an Executive Committee member of ANS Washington, DC Local Section, is a member of the ANS International Committee, and served on the ANS Communication Committee.
Nominated for Member at Large
3 of 3
Martin E. Nelson nominated for Member at Large
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Professor Martin E. Nelson was a faculty member in the USNA Division of Engineering and Weapons from 1971-2015.? Dr. Nelson served nearly 38 years as the Director of the USNA nucleonics laboratory in Rickover Hall. His career assignments included Director, USNA Rickover Nucleonics Lab, 1974-1986, 1989-2015; Associate Director USNA Rickover Nucleonics Lab, 1972-1974 and 1986-1989; Faculty Advisor USNA American Nuclear Society Student chapter, 1975-2015; Project Manager, Nuclear Data System Annual Procurements for Rickover Hall?s Nuclear Lab, 1987-2015, and Associate Chairman NAOME Department, 1987-1988. Dr. Nelson?s research interests include health physics, environmental remediation, nuclear instrumentation, nuclear arms control technologies, radiation effects on microchips, neural networks, homeland security (nuclear), detection of special nuclear material by robotics and unmanned vehicle platforms.? He has been almost solely responsible for development and maintenance of the nuclear engineering laboratory equipment and computational facilities, as they currently exist in Rickover Hall.? As a result of his efforts, this laboratory has state-of the-art data acquisition systems, computer codes, a wide variety of alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron sources, and nuclear instrumentation, which greatly enhances the education and research opportunities of midshipmen, naval officers seeking advanced degrees, and other faculty. He has served as academic advisor and mentor to approximately 200 midshipmen independent study, Bowman Scholar, Trident Scholar and midshipmen capstone projects.? He has received his department?s nomination for USNA Excellence in Research and teaching six times, receiving institution honorable mention for the Research Excellence award twice.? He has also received both the Civil Service Meritorious and Superior Service awards.? Prof. Nelson has served on the Senate faculty finance committee and the USNA yard wide Promotion and Tenure Committee. Prof. Nelson received an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Nuclear Engineering program at the University of Maryland in 1990.?? Dr. Nelson received his B.S. in Applied Math and Engineering Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1966, and both his M.S.E, in Nuclear Engineering in 1968 and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering in 1972 from the University of Virginia.
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