Stanley D. Love

Senior Consultant

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Summary

 

Mr. Love has over 20 years experience in the nuclear industry with a broad range of expertise in program management, nuclear criticality safety, regulatory and licensing compliance, configuration management, system safety engineering, and electrical equipment qualification.  He has been instrumental in program conceptualization and management in both the nuclear utility industry and the nuclear defense industry. .  For the past eight years, Mr. Love has been self-employed with C. S. Engineering, Inc., where he has provided support in nuclear criticality safety to Y-12, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, and East Tennessee Technology Park.  His service to Portsmouth included over 2 years providing technical program management in the development of the plant Safety Analysis Report.  His experience also includes over 2 years as the Program Manager for TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant Design Baseline Verification Program.  This multidiscipline program had the objective of establishing and maintaining the design and configuration baseline for the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in support of obtaining an operating license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  While serving as Program Manager, Mr. Love was responsible for the technical work of five program area managers and up to 200 contract personnel.  He also was technical contract officer for the work performed under his purview.  Mr. Love additionally served in the capacities of Regulatory Engineering Manager, Assistant Lead Nuclear Engineer, System Engineer, and Licensing Engineer while at TVA.  Mr. Love was a Program Consultant with Martin Marietta Energy Systems for three years at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge.  In this capacity, he was responsible for developing and implementing program guidance in the specialty of nuclear criticality safety.

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Professional Experience

 

1992-Present       C.S. Engineering, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee

Mr. Love is a Senior Consultant engaged in nuclear criticality safety analysis and engineering services support at the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant.  He has also participated in the reconstitution of the nuclear criticality safety basis at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) and developed the nuclear criticality safety portions of the Gaseous Diffusion Plant (GDP) Safety Analysis Reports (SARs) in support of turnover of these facilities from DOE to NRC regulation.

 

1989-1992          Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Mr. Love was a Program Consultant for the Nuclear Criticality Safety Department responsible for establishing the guidelines and analysis methods for nuclear criticality accidents in support of SAR development.  Also served as a member of the Y-12 Plant Safety Analysis Review Committee (SARC) where he was responsible for the review and approval of all safety analysis documentation for the plant.

 

1980-1989          Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee

Mr. Love was the Program Manager for the Design Baseline and Verification Program at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.  He also served the capacity of Assistant Lead Nuclear Engineer, Manager of  Regulatory Engineering, System Safety Analyst, and Regulatory/Licensing Engineer.

 

1976-1979          Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Mr. Love was an engineering co-operative education student responsible for computer modeling of gaseous diffusion plant operations in the Planning Division.

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Education

 

B.S. Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1980 - With Honors

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Clearances

 

Active DOE Q-Clearance, Oak Ridge Operations

 

U.S. Navy Secret Clearance, U.S. Naval Reserve, Nashville, Tennessee

 

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Training and Certifications

 

·       SCALE 4.1, Criticality Code Use, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, 1992

 

·       Program Management, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, 1992

 

·       Engineered Systems Analysis, JBF Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1990

 

·       Advanced Systems Reliability Analysis, Process Safety Institute, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1991

 

·       Human Reliability Analysis, (A. Swain, Instructor), JBF Associates, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1990

 

·       Nuclear Criticality Safety Short Course, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1990

 

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Relevant Technical Experience

 

Program Management

 

·       Responsible for the conceptualization and implementation of a major plant program at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant with the focus of establishing plant configuration baselines, developing a plant Design Basis Document, performing plant walkdowns, implementing a new design change process, verifying licensing documentation, baselining vendor manuals, reconstitution of design calculations, and confirmation of the adequacy of plant QC documentation.  This program had major impact on all plant organizations and required extensive interfacing.  Mr. Love was technically responsible for all program deliverables and was administratively responsible for a team of managers leading each major component of the overall program.  In addition, Mr. Love was technical contract manager for large engineering services contracts through which many aspects of the program were conducted.  His duties included managing up to 200 contract and in-house personnel.

 

·       Served as technical program manager for a team of engineers providing support to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant for the reconstitution of the nuclear criticality safety basis.  This team was responsible for delivering draft analyses and NCS limits and conditions for numerous operating facilities at Portsmouth.

 

·       Served as Program Consultant to the Y-12 Nuclear Criticality Safety Department specializing in program conceptualization and interface with facility Safety Analysis Report development.

 

·       During the period of 1986 through 1994, Mr. Love qualified and served in the United States Naval Reserve as an Engineering Duty Officer.  Active duty assignments included service as an Assistant Ship Superintendent at the Charleston Naval Shipyard and the Portland Naval Shipyard providing program management support for maintenance and modification to U. S. Naval fleet submarines and surface ships.  Mr. Love also served as a Quality Assurance specialist at the Charleston Naval Shipyard.   In his final two years of active reserve duty, Mr. Love served as the Executive Officer of Naval Reserve Weapons Station Earle, Detachment 209.  Mr. Love has obtained rank of Lieutenant Commander and currently remains in the Inactive Ready Reserve.

 

Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineering

 

·       Performed nuclear criticality safety (NCS) analysis for the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant for machining and chemical recovery operations in support of the Process Based Restart of Enriched Uranium Operations.  Activities included the assessment of operating procedures to ensure proper incorporation of NCS limits and conditions, field walkdown of systems for verification, and the review and approval of as-built drawings, which depict NCS-related features.

 

·       Performed nuclear criticality safety analysis for the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in support of the effort to reconstitute the NCS basis prior to certification for NRC regulation.

 

·       Performed nuclear criticality safety analysis for the K-25 building at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP, formerly K-25 Plant) for activities to remove unsafe deposits of uranium from diffusion plant equipment.  Activities included the review of work plans, sketches, and work locations to ensure the safe removal of fissile material.  Also prepared criticality analysis for the TSCA Incinerator.

 

·       Performed nuclear criticality accident analysis using fault tree/event tree methodology for DOE’s Y-12 Plant.

 

Regulatory and Licensing Compliance

 

·       Prepared the Nuclear Criticality Safety portions of the Portsmouth and Paducah updated Safety Analysis Reports (SAR) through the SAR Upgrade Programs for these facilities.  The SARs were provided to DOE to support compliance certification to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

 

·       Member of the Y-12 Safety Analysis Review Committee (SARC) with the responsibility to perform independent reviews of Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) and Safety Analysis Reports (SARs) for all Y-12 operations involving the handling of fissile materials.  Also served as Alternate SARC Chairman with the responsibility of approving this analysis documents prior to submittal to DOE.

 

·       Developed or approved Operational Safety Requirements (OSRs, alternatively called Technical Safety Requirements or TSRs) relating to nuclear criticality safety at Y-12.

 

·       As manager of Watts Bar Nuclear Plant’s Regulatory Engineering Section, Mr. Love was responsible for all licensing issues affecting design engineering.  He was a primary interface with the site US NRC Resident Inspectors for design processes and document.

 

·       Mr. Love was a member of a team of licensing engineers with the responsibility of streamlining the Watts Bar FSAR.  This effort required comparison with Duke Power’s Catawba Station FSAR and rewriting the Watts Bar document.

 

Configuration Management

 

·       Provided technical guidance in the development of and site-wide training in the use of the Structures, Systems, and Components (SSC) Grading procedure currently used at the Y-12 Plant.  This procedure provides the method for determining the level of rigor applied to the design, construction, procurement, maintenance, modification and surveillance of SSCs used for safety applications at Y-12.

 

·       Mr. Love served as the Configuration Management Subject Matter Expert on the Management Self-Assessment (MSA) Team for the Processed Based Restart of the Y-12 Plant’s Enriched Uranium Operations.  He was responsible for the performance of a compliance assessment in the area of Configuration Management and conducted a vertical slice evaluation of eight fissile material operations to confirm implementation of NCS limits and conditions.  Mr. Love was responsible for presenting his assessment to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB).

 

·       Developed program procedures for Y-12’s Enriched Uranium Operations for the Configuration Management organization.

 

·       In the position of Program Manager at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant, Mr. Love conceptualized and prepared controlling procedures for implementation of a new change control process, including the development of plant as-built drawings.

 

·       While employed at Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Mr. Love was selected as a primary corporate auditor to review the Configuration Management Program at the K-25 site (now ETTP) in Oak Ridge.  This audit was a corporate self-assessment performed in advance of a DOE Tiger Team Assessment.  Mr. Love received a Martin Marietta Quality Department Teamwork award for his contribution.

 

System Safety Engineering

 

·       Performed system safety analysis reviews for nuclear criticality safety at the Y-12 Plant.

 

·       Performed design modification analyses for nuclear safety systems at TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.  Analyses included flooding calculations, design impact studies, independent verifications, and category and operating time analyses.

 

Environmental Equipment Qualification

 

·       Responsible for Appendix R Fire Protection safe shutdown analysis while serving as System Safety Engineer for TVA’s Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.

 

·       Served as System Engineer for the Chemical and Volume Control System and the Auxiliary Feedwater System at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant.

 

·       Mr. Love was responsible for development of the Environmental Qualification List of Equipment for Savannah River Site’s K-Reactor Facility.  In performing this function, he was responsible for procedure development, employee training, and list preparation including serving as subject matter expert.

 

·       Mr. Love was responsible for K-Reactor EQ Program procedure development and administrative requirement control.  He also developed calculations demonstrating program compliance with DOE technical requirements.

 

·       As a licensing engineer with TVA, Mr. Love gained extensive experience in regulatory compliance with EQ rules for the nuclear utility industry.