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Ben Baranko
Senior Engineer
With a B.S. from the University of Illinois, Mr. Baranko has supported a number of DOE and commercial nuclear sites during his 6+ years in the nuclear criticality safety field. He has provided criticality support for the Savannah River Site, the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, Nuclear Fuel Services, the Areva fuel fabrication plant in Richland, Washington, the Westinghouse Columbia Fuel Plant, and the Idaho Closure Project.
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Brittany Burke
Human Resource Manager
Brittany.Burke@nuclearassociates.com
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Carol Cise
Consulting Engineer
Carol has spent the last 20+ years working in various areas of the nuclear industry including: fast reactor physics; modeling and does calculations for BNCT research; criticality safety analyses to support Process Operations as well as D&D at Rocky Flats, Hanford (PFP) and the Idaho Cleanup Project; criticality accident alarm placement; and most recently Criticality Safety Program development and implementation. She has also worked as an NRC Inspector for the fuel fabrication facilities. Carol holds a B.S. in General Engineering and an M.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Idaho State University.
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Michael R. Corum
Vice-President, Columbia Operations Office
A former INPO Fellow and an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Mike Corum began his career over 12 years ago doing risk assessments and integrated safety analysis work at Savannah River. He next spent several years designing reactor cores before becoming a criticality safety engineer.
Michael.Corum@nuclearassociates.com
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James C. Dean (Chris)
Vice President, Oak Ridge Operations Office
Mr. Dean graduated from West Virginia University with a M.S. in Physics, and has over eighteen years experience as a Hazard and Risk Analyst, Nuclear Safety Engineer, Nuclear Safety Manager, and Security Analyst in the Aerospace, Chemical Processing, Nuclear, and Commercial Industries. He is an experienced fire and explosion hazards analyst, a qualified senior nuclear criticality safety engineer, and an experienced facility safety engineer who has developed, implemented, and reviewed safety basis documentation at several DOE and commercial facilities. He also has significant experience in safeguards and security programs, including performing classification reviews, radiological sabotage assessments, and vulnerability assessments for critical infrastructure. Mr. Dean has successfully led and managed programs and projects of up to $10M in value in his areas of expertise.
Chris.Dean@nuclearassociates.com
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Mark Dittig
Consulting Engineer
Mark Dittig has more than 27 years of experience in nuclear operations and management including a 12 year assignment as a Naval Reactors Representative’s Assistant overseeing aircraft carrier and submarine construction, overhaul, and operations. He graduated from Southern Illinois University with a B.S degree in Work Force Education with an emphasis in nuclear power and is a certified Project Management Professional. He is an experienced shift technical advisor and operations manager who has reviewed and implemented safety basis documentation at several DOE nuclear facilities. Mark also has significant experience in implementing and managing Conduct of Operations and ASME NQA-1 Quality Assurance Programs.
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Robert L. Frost, Ph.D.
President
Robert Frost is the founder of Nuclear Safety Associates, as well as a full-time senior consultant. A Georgia Tech alumnus, Dr. Frost has worked in the fields of nuclear criticality safety, radiation shielding, and reactor physics during a career that has spanned more than 16 years in the nuclear industry.
Robert.Frost@nuclearassociates.com
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Stacey L. Frost
Corporate Secretary
An honors graduate of the University of Kentucky, Stacey developed expertise in marketing, corporate communication, and small business management prior to helping found Nuclear Safety Associates.
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Roland Gille
ISA Lead Engineer
Roland Gille is a mechanical engineer and certified project management professional with over 30 years of experience in directing numerous multidisciplinary technical staffs for nuclear safety projects, facility operations, experiments, studies, reports, and tasks. He has applied NRC Regulatory Guide requirements on numerous projects. He is experienced in preparing, implementing, and reviewing safety analyses/technical safety requirements documentation. He is also experienced in project management, operations management, mechanical and environmental engineering design, hazard analysis, security, quality, waste management, decommissioning of laboratory facilities, and facility audits.
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Eric Johnson
Senior Principal Engineer
Eric Johnson graduated from Rockhurst College with a B.S. in Chemistry. He has over 25 years experience in the nuclear and hazardous chemical industry. He has qualified as a nuclear engineer and Master Training Specialist in the Navy.
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Brian Kindred
Senior Principal Engineer
Having served six years in the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserve as an aircraft structural mechanic, Mr. Kindred completed his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Tech University in 1993. He has over 16 years experience in the design and production of several different aircraft. Some of the aircraft programs Mr. Kindred has contributed to are: the Lockheed P3 Orion, the F22 Raptor, the Gulfstream G IV & G V, the Israeli CAEW modification, the X-47B unmanned aircraft, and the Boeing 787. After completing work on the Boeing 787 forward instrument panel design, he began working with B&W Clinch River in support of the American Centrifuge Program. In this role he has lead the design and build of several critical calibration tools to enable assembly of the centrifuge machine. He joined NSA in 2009 to support the design effort on the GEH Silex Enrichment Plant.
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Lori Hicks
Accountant
Lori.Hicks@nuclearassociates.com
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Sandra Larson
Principal Engineer
Ms. Larson has over twelve years of criticality safety analysis experience and is a Criticality Safety Specialist. She has performed analyses for solution processing facilities, shipping casks, storage facilities, Hanford tank waste, chemical and vitrification processes, and experimental laboratory facilities.
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Brian Matthews
Principal Engineer
Brian Matthews joined Nuclear Safety Associates after spending six years working for NNC and BNFL at a variety of nuclear installations in England. Brian began his carreer as a reactor physicist, performing core load optimization studies for a variety of current generation and future generation reactor systems, before briefly transitioning to shielding and then criticality safety. With a total eight years intensive industry experience (including six years criticality safety experience) gained supporting a very broad and diverse range of nuclear projects in the United States, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Japan and Canada, Brian has unique and rich industry experience.
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Jay McDonald
Senior Consulting Engineer
Jay McDonald has more than 40 years of experience in: management; nuclear operations; emergency preparedness; maintenance; and surveillance of Federal and contractor activities. He holds a BS degree with a major in Physics from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MS in Operations Research/Systems Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.
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John McDonald
Consulting Engineer
Mr. McDonald has over 35 years of management experience in the nuclear industry. His expertise is in project management, quality assurance, licensing, standards management, conduct of operations, performance improvement, self-assessment activities, and nuclear plant operations and maintenance. In support of the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) he has completed assignments in readiness assessment activities, performance management, standards management, and self-assessment. For the U. S. Tennessee Valley Authority he managed the program for completion of design, construction, licensing, and operational preparations for the Watts Bar nuclear power plant. He also performed regulatory inspections of several commercial nuclear reactors for the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In the U. S. Navy he managed nuclear plant operations, maintenance, preoperational testing, startup testing, and training.
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Sam McDonald
Senior Consulting Engineer
Dr. McDonald is a highly experienced manager who has implemented Operations Strategies such as Total Quality and Time-Based Management (Lean); successfully applied a number of continuous improvement techniques including Strategic Planning methodologies such as the Balanced Scorecard, and taught business leadership principles to several generations of engineers and managers.
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William D. Newmyer
Senior Principal Engineer
William Newmyer began his career as a core-designer for Westinghouse before becoming a full-time criticality safety engineer. Bill is a graduate of both Penn State and the University of Tennessee with over 12 years experience in the nuclear industry.
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Brandon O'Donnell
Senior Engineer
Brandon O’Donnell graduated from the University of Michigan in 2003 with a B.S. and in 2004 with an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. His graduate work was focused on radiation shielding and risk assessment associated with transport of spent nuclear fuel through a fellowship with Sandia National Laboratories. Since then, he has worked in industry at various fuel fabrication facilities providing nuclear criticality safety, health physics, and integrated safety technical support, as well as providing input to licensing activities and interfacing with regulators.
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Shane Parkey
Senior Engineer
Shane Parkey began his Nuclear Engineering career by enrolling in the undergraduate program at the University of Tennessee in August 1997. During his undergraduate years he obtained experience in the field of Nuclear Criticality Safety as a Co-op Engineer at Nuclear Fuel Services. Shane graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2002 and a Master of Science Degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2003. He has provided criticality safety and radiation shielding support for Duke-Cogema-Stone and Webster (DCS), the East Tennessee Technology Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Nuclear Fuel Services, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and the Y-12 National Security Complex.
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Scott Revolinski
Consulting Engineer
Scott Revolinski has concentrated the majority of his 28 years in the nuclear industry on tasks surrounding the expanding role of computers to increase safety. Scott is a graduate of both Rice University and Georgia Tech. The first 18 years of his career were with reactor operations while the most recent 10 years have concentrated on nuclear criticality safety for commercial and DOE facilities.
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Guy Rhoden
Principal Engineer
Guy Rhoden graduated from the University of Arizona in 1993 with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering. Since then his work has included shielding design, dose uptake studies, and criticality safety support. Guy has worked a number of DOE sites including Hanford, WIPP, and the Savannah River Site. He has also worked in the United Kingdom providing criticality safety support to the Sellafield nuclear site. Guy continues to provide criticality safety support to DOE and NRC regulated facilities.
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Kevin Roberts
Senior Principal Engineer
Kevin Roberts, a certified health physicist, is a senior engineer with 17 years of experience in the nuclear industry. During this period, he has developed experience in radiological protection and nuclear engineering. He has worked in a variety of areas including but not limited to dose assessment, shielding calculations, radiological waste management, radiological transportation, and radiological control programs.
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Charles Robinson
Senior Principal Engineer
A multi-talented professional, Chuck Robinson has earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, and is currently pursuing Master degrees in both environmental engineering and business administration. Chuck is a 15-year veteran of the nuclear industry, and has worked at all of the fuel fabrication facilities at one point or another during that time.
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Cheryl Rockney
Office Manager
Cheryl.Rockney@nuclearassociates.com
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Tyler Scott
Senior Engineer
Tyler Scott graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1998 with a degree in Nuclear Engineering. While in school he helped prepare the criticality safety portion of NAC Corporation’s SARP for the LWT shipping cask. He has also worked in the NCS field at all three Oak Ridge sites (Y-12, Oak Ridge National Lab, and the East Tennessee Technology Park) and is currently providing NCS support to the Westinghouse Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility.
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Tim Solack
Senior Consulting Engineer
Tim Solack graduated from The Ohio State University with a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and has approximately 31 years of safety analysis, engineering design, facility engineering, security vulnerability assessment, emergency management and preparedness, and project/construction management activities related to large-scale industrial and government critical infrastructure projects. His technical efforts in these areas have involved overall project and program management, development of facility/process hazard analyses, process safety and risk management documentation, safety analysis reports, engineering of field design changes, development of infrastructure security vulnerability assessments encompassing Design Basis Threat, critical asset and consequence determination and security and operational systems upgrades, and emergency management and preparedness documentation per OSHA, EPA, NRC, and DOE Code of Federal Regulations, development of project design criteria documentation and construction specifications per national codes and standards, as well as participation in various contract negotiations and proposal presentations. Mr. Solack has also managed and technically directed major architect engineering firms, construction contractors, vendors, and operations personnel involving the integration of various engineering disciplines (i.e., nuclear, civil, mechanical, electrical, etc.).
Tim.Solack@nuclearassociates.com
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David Vaughn
Senior Engineer
With a degree in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, David Vaughn has over 10 years of extensive criticality safety experience working with numerous government subcontracted projects in the DOE complexes (such as the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project and Accelerated Retrieval Project – both located at INL), in the NRC regulated realm (such as MOX Fuel Fabrication Project at SRS, Yucca Mountain Project in Nevada, Nuclear Fuels Services in Tennessee, and the Westinghouse Hematite Decommissioning Project in Missouri), and with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission regulated Zircatec Precision Industries. David’s skills include expert capability in the standard industry nuclear codes such as SCALE and MCNP, proficiency at writing both criticality safety calculations and criticality safety evaluations, as well as a complete understanding of all DOE orders and standards (particularly STD-3007-2007 and O-420.1B), NRC guidance and regulations (particularly NUREG-3.71, all ISGs, and 10CFR70), and all ANSI/ANS standards.
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Steve Wachtel
Senior Principal Engineer
Mr. Wachtel graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1989 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering, and in 2003 with a Master’s degree in Engineering Professional Practice (with emphasis on project and engineering management). His career includes over 13 years of criticality safety experience, plus 4 years of other nuclear-related safety management program development experience.
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