Engineering Planning and Management, Inc. Instructors
Scott Beck
Mr. Beck has been in the risk and reliability assessment field for 18 years. His educational background includes a M.S. in Instrumentation and Control Systems, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and a B.A. in Chemistry, all from Idaho State University. A majority of his career was a Probabilistic Risk Assessment Engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory. Projects include a primary analyst for the SPAR (Standardized Plant Analysis Risk) model program, risk analyst for NGNP (Next Generation Nuclear Plant) licensing procedure, and safety and hazard analyst for chemical, radiological, military and space systems. He also served 15 years as an instructor for the NRC’s PRA Professional Development Program and was an instructor for PRA Technology and Regulatory Perspectives, PRA Basic for Regulatory Applications, SAPHIRE risk analysis software and External Events courses.
James Masterlark
Mr. Masterlark has over 20 years of experience in risk related fields including Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA), Safe Shutdown, and Fire Protection. Mr. Masterlark has developed, coordinated, and lead major Fire Protection and PRA projects for both PWR and BWR nuclear plants. He has been with EPM since 2009 and is responsible for the management and operation of EPM’s Risk Solution Division. The division performs services related to NFPA 805 transition, PRA, Fire PRA, Thermal Hydraulic Analysis, and Fire Protection.
Mr. Masterlark has experience with both BWR and PWR plant systems. As a Senior Consultant at EPM, Mr. Masterlark has experience with nuclear plant engineering, design, operation and licensing. His particular specialties are with PRA, Fire Protection, and Mechanical Systems Design and Maintenance. He has over 18 years of plant experience. While working in the nuclear industry, he was responsible for the management of the PRA, Fire Protection, and Safe Shutdown groups. Mr. Masterlark has been involved with the development and maintenance of engineering programs including Safe Shutdown (10 CFR 50 Appendix R and NFPA 805), Fire Protection, and Internal and External Events PRA.
Mr. Masterlark has extensive experience with the NRC's Significance Determination Process. He has been a utility reviewer of the associated methods and procedures. He has assisted plants with evaluating risk significance of issues and with their communication with the regulator.
Paul Knoespel
Mr. Knoespel has more than thirty years experience in commercial nuclear power operations and support, including more than fifteen years experience with probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) applications, evaluations, and modeling. He has led projects at three sites for PRA model upgrades to meet ASME Standards and implementation of risk-informed regulatory initiatives, and has also been the project manager for NFPA 805 submittal development at two sites. Mr. Knoespel's broad background also includes six years as a BWR station nuclear engineer and three years as an SRO- licensed control room shift supervisor.
John Olvera
Mr. Olvera has nearly thirty years of experience in the nuclear power industry. His experience includes nuclear safety and transient analysis, systems analysis, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, and Fire PRA analyses. Mr. Olvera’s experience includes the evaluation and analysis of Design Basis Accidents, Core Design and Reload Analysis, Shutdown Safety Evaluations, and the thermal-hydraulic analyses of PRA success criteria. Mr. Olvera has also been involved in the preparation of Fire PRA analyses, and has participated in several industry Fire PRA Peer Reviews. Mr. Olvera has also performed process safety evaluation and analysis of various chemical and petroleum industry processes using PRA and Hazard and Operability Assessment (HAZOP) techniques.
Thomas Asmus
Mr. Asmus has over twenty two years of experience in probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) and Human Reliability Analysis (HRA). He has had major responsibilities at both the site and corporate level for nuclear PRA projects and in all aspects of PRA development and implementation. Mr. Asmus’s experience includes nuclear systems and data analysis, fault tree and event tree construction and evaluation for internal events, fire PRA model construction and evaluation, Significance Determination Process response and human reliability analysis for nuclear plant operator response.
Robert Ladd
Mr. Ladd has over twenty five years of experience in fire protection engineering and has had major responsibilities in both commercial nuclear and federal governmental projects including all aspects of fire protection program development and implementation. Mr. Ladd's experience includes fire modeling, fire risk quantification, fire PRA peer review, penetration seal evaluation and databases, preparation of engineering evaluations and calculations, Fire Hazards Analyses, and NFPA code conformance evaluations and deviations.
Tonya Enos-Sylla
Ms. Enos-Sylla has experience performing tasks related to Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA): Thermal-hydraulic Analysis, Human Reliability Analysis (HRA), developing, updating, converting and testing Configuration Risk Management (CRM) models, updating and evaluating PRA models. She also has experience with Fire PRA and Flooding Analysis. Ms. Enos-Sylla is familiar with a variety of computer software associated with PRA and FPRA including CAFTA, FTRex, HRA Calculator, MAAP, EOOS, ORAM-Sentinel, PARAGON, FRANC and FRANX.
Randy Best
Mr. Best has more than 25 years of experience in nuclear power plant operations and support, including over 21 years of Probabilistic Risk Assessment experience. He has had major responsibilities at both the site and corporate level for nuclear PRA projects and in all aspects of PRA development and implementation. Mr. Best’s experience includes development of PRA models for internal events (Level 1 and Level 2), internal fires and internal flooding for both commercial and DOE facilities. Additional work includes PRA input to licensing activities, configuration risk management and Maintenance Rule program coordination, and energy risk management fields.
Nuclear Safety Associates Instructors
Sam Swan
Mr. Swan has over 35 years of experience in the risk assessment of critical systems serving commercial, industrial and electric utility operations. His expertise includes the reliability of critical systems in disaster events, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, floods, fires and prolonged power outages. He was the primary investigator for a program sponsored by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), in conjunction with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), to quantify the earthquake vulnerability (seismic fragility) of equipment critical for nuclear power plant safety. Mr. Swan has performed numerous other studies estimating the seismic failure probability of critical components of nuclear utility systems and industrial operations. He has developed seismic risk assessments using equipment seismic fragilities, earthquake intensity and frequency data, seismic qualification information for equipment and interconnections, stress computations, compilations of shake table data, and the application of engineering judgment based on experience from past earthquakes. He obtained a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona, and both the M.S. and Professional Engineer degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
Tony Chung
Mr. Chung has over 30 years of experience in design engineering, including seismic, structural and dynamic impact analyses. He has served as the principal engineer at SAIC for a natural phenomena hazard analysis (seismic, wind, flood), and performed many structural and stress analyses of buildings and systems, including nuclear power and weapons facilities, for the U.S. NRC and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He has also developed seismic capacity margins for non-reactor buildings, and performed structural walk-downs, reviews of seismic, tornado, and aircraft crash accident analyses, and provided predictions of the structural integrity for various DOE high-hazard facilities. He has developed nonlinear dynamic capacity-spectrum to find the ultimate structural collapse threshold capacity for buildings, including missile impacts on walls, planks, cages, and specific facility equipment. He has prepared equipment and structural qualification documentation for nuclear facility FSARs. He obtained a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan, and the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University. He is a registered PE in Structural Engineering at the State of Idaho.
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