Gary Vine Email & Phone Number

Ophelia Va

Consulting for DOE, EPRI and other clients, via Longenecker & Associates (L&A). Highlights include:• Prepared an extensive analysis of cooling water issues at U.S. nuclear plants for DOE-NE. Resulting report, “Cooling Water Issues and Opportunities at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants." Co-authored follow-on EPRI report, “Tradeoffs between Once-Through Cooling and Closed-Cycle Cooling for Nuclear Power Plants,” TR 1025006, June 2012.• Prepared NP2010 COL/DC Lessons Learned Report for DOE-NE, with focus on Lessons Learned and recommendations for future cost-shared programs. (2012)• Independent technical review of design, operational and deployment issues associated with SMRs; co-authored “Small Modular Reactors: A Call for Action,” published by Hoover Institution, July 2015.• Developed the Conceptual, Preliminary and Final Design Reports for the New Filter Building and the New Shaft projects at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) in New Mexico. (2015-17)• Led an L&A team working with APTIM (formerly CBI) under DOE contract to prepare the “Interim Storage Facility Generic Design Report” for commercial spent nuclear fuel, along with its associated Topical Safety Analysis Report for review and approval by NRC. Primary editor of Generic Design Report. (2017)• Served on 3-man L&A team that conducted a review of the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) Project at INL, in preparation for a CD-0 Independent Review conducted by DOE Headquarters (2018). Developed an aggressive set of proposed “Enterprise Goals” for DOE-NE, based on nuclear industry priorities, including milestones and “tie-ins” to DOE’s PICS:NE project management system. Based on these goals, prepared a strawman “Nuclear Energy RD&D Roadmap” for DOE. (2018) Led a 3 person L&A team that conducted an independent review of the CD-1 document package prepared by the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) for submittal to NNSA for a major capital project at the Savannah River Site. (2020)

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Served as management liaison to NEI, INPO, reactor owners groups, NRC, DOE, other Federal agencies, and the Idaho National Lab. Reported directly to EPRI Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer. • Managed all interface issues, cooperative initiatives and EPRI technical support with each of these organizations. Drafted and negotiated Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with these organizations.• Wrote / edited many of the industry strategic plans for nuclear energy published by EPRI or jointly with DOE, INL or NEI over the last two decades, resulting in utility executive endorsement of a consensus nuclear R&D agenda, and Federal funding to R&D of importance to the nuclear industry. Formulated cost-sharing strategies for industry-government partnerships in executing these plans. • Supported initiatives and joint efforts with NEI, DOE and NRC for new plants, including service on industry committees and development of generic resolutions to new plant technical and regulatory issues. • Served as primary interface between EPRI technical experts and NEI staff on nuclear fuel cycle and used fuel issues and analyses, including Yucca Mountain standards and capabilities, spent fuel storage and transportation, nuclear fuel reprocessing, impacts of high burnup fuel on spent fuel management, etc.• Coordinated EPRI review of NRC’s 1996 “Direction Setting Initiatives,” resulting in a Commission decision to allow limited collaborative R&D between industry and NRC, leading to the EPRI-NRC MOU on cooperative nuclear safety research in 1997. Negotiated a major revision to this MOU in 2007.• Represented U.S. industry at various International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meetings and conferences; co-authored various IAEA consensus reports and technical documents (“TECDOCs”) on reactor safety principles and standards.

Palo Alto Ca

• Managed completion of Evolutionary ALWR Utility Requirements Document (URD) – consensus utility design requirements for next generation of standardized ALWRs. Helped the URD gain “user bid spec” credentials with reactor vendors and NRC. Successfully obtained chapter-by-chapter NRC approval of Evolutionary URD. • Partnered with NUMARC to resolve open regulatory issues and design optimization issues via URD approval process, including seismic and severe accident response and containment performance.• Developed 3-party MOU with DOE and suppliers for financing of passive plant development. Led negotiations to reach agreement with W & GE on royalty payments to EPRI, utility sponsors and DOE.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Selected as first EPRI Executive Liaison to NUMARC, created in 1987 to provide a unified nuclear industry approach to resolution of generic regulatory and technical issues and to interact with NRC on these issues.• Provided direct technical support to NUMARC and indirect support from EPRI staff on high priority issues to both organizations: EDG reliability, erosion-corrosion, DHR, plant life extension, accident management.

Palo Alto Ca

• Analyzed and prepared reports on nuclear power plant operating experience and safety-significant events.• Managed all EPRI work on “Shutdown Decay Heat Removal” issue (classified by the NRC as a high priority generic safety issue). Served as matrix manager to integrate all aspects of issue – operating experience, severe accident analysis, PRA, etc. Published reports on DHR operating experience and PRA evaluations.• Managed industry technical analysis and joint response to the Chernobyl accident: coordinated analysis of RBMK reactor design and causes of accident; selected to U.S. delegation to post-accident conference at IAEA in Vienna Austria; co-authored Industry Position Paper on Chernobyl accident and Industry Response Plan. Authored Safety Analysis chapter of joint U.S. government - industry report on Chernobyl accident.

Ms, Physics

Bs, Physics, Mathematics