NRE 8011/8012 Seminar
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BWX Technologies, Inc. Overview and Advanced Nuclear Fuel Developments |
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Speaker: |
Mr. Joshua Parker |
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Affiliation: |
business development manager for BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT). |
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When: |
Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 11:00:00 AM |
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Where: |
Boggs Building, Room 3-47 |
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Host: |
Fan Zhang | |
Abstract Mr. Parker will provide an overview of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT) and it core business units and facilities. He will provide a summary of Advanced and Space reactor development plans that are on-going with BWXT with a focus on Advanced Nuclear Fuel Developments that have been complete in recent years. |
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Biography Joshua L. Parker, P.E. is business development manager for BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT). He is responsible for strategy development, sales growth, business expansion, and identifying and building strategic partnerships and alliances. Before joining BWXT, Mr. Parker worked in the nuclear fuel business unit at Framatome Inc. as manager of fuels business development. He also held roles as R&D project manager, commercial fuel supply project manager and core design engineer. Mr. Parker has managed projects that developed new and novel fuel analysis methods, seeing them successfully through U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission review and licensing, and has experience with both boiling water reactor and pressurized water reactor fuel technology. He has also managed projects for engineering design and supply of nuclear fuel to a major U.S. utility for six operating cycles and led first-of-a-kind fuel transitions and fuel assembly insertion programs for the U.S. Light Water Reactor fleet. Mr. Parker holds a bachelor’s degree in nuclear and radiological engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as member of the external advisory board for the nuclear engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology under the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. He is a fellow of the World Nuclear University Summer Institute program, and a professional nuclear engineer registered with the commonwealth of Virginia |
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Notes |
https://bluejeans.com/795836107/2881 |
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