Title:

American Centrifuge Program

Speaker:

Mr. Stephen Eilertson

Affiliation:

United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC)

When:

Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 11:00:00 AM   Add to Calendar

Where:

Boggs Building, Room 3-47, 3rd FL

Host:

Farzad Rahnema
farzad@gatech.edu
(404) 894-3731

Abstract

American Centrifuge Project History and Background. This talk will present a brief overview of the enrichment options available for supplying the nuclear power industry. It will review the various methods employed by industry as well as touching on the enrichment environment and some of the inherent challenges in executing a complex engineering project.

Biography

Stephen A. Eilertson is the Centrifuge Machine Engineering Manager for the Technology Development Division of USEC (United States Enrichment Corporation). This group is responsible for providing technical expertise for the centrifuge being developed for deployment at the commercial plant proposed for Piketon, OH. He is responsible for the machine dynamics and balancing; motor/machine drive unit design; machine instrumentation and controls; materials engineering; reliability engineering and Data acquisition System support; and integration of cascade and process analysis on machine design and operation. He also manages the utilization of resources from the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) established with the DOE ORNL in support of centrifuge development. He earned his B. NE degree at Georgia Tech in 1987 and entered the nuclear power program with the U.S. Navy upon graduation. His first assignment was as an Engineering Department Officer for a core refueling in Charleston Naval Shipyard. Stephen qualified as Chief Engineer for Naval Nuclear Propulsion with DOE/NAVSEA 08 during this assignment. He went on to serve as an Instructor and Division Director for the Reactor Principles Subject at the Navy Nuclear Power School. After completing a follow on assignment as a Department Head on board another submarine he left active duty and worked as a Senior Project Manager and then Manager, Product R&D for the closure division of Owens Illinois (OI), a major plastic injection & compression company. His focus areas were in the pharmaceutical and food industry. While working on projects for shelf stable food he served on the Institute for Thermal Food Process Specialists (IFTPS) microbiology and thermal sterilization committees. Stephen left OI at the end of 2007 to begin working for the Centrifuge Program at USEC.