William J. Adam, Ph.D.

Description: Twenty-eight years of direct involvement in risk assessment, safety analysis, dose consequence analysis, environmental contaminant transport / dispersion modeling, radiological safety procedure writing, industrial and radiological safety programs, as well as the licensing, inspection and enforcement programs for USNRC Medical, Industrial and Academic facilities. Experience also includes primary responsibilities in emergency preparedness exercises, assessment of the adequacy of radiological monitoring techniques and instrumentation, facility decommissioning, and Agreement State Radiological Safety Programs. Over 60 published risk analyses, hazard classifications, calculation briefs and safety documents, addressing safety and risk management issues associated with the MOX fuel fabrication facility, environmental restoration projects such as liquid and solid waste site remediation, plutonium production reactor decommissioning, and other industrial and radiological safety issues. Solid research, communication and project management skills. Highly motivated and productive.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2006 to present
Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC

Nuclear Safety Analysis - Radiological Safety Engineer

Safety analyst for the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site. Creates and revises calculation briefs that support the design, construction and licensing of the facility, as it progresses from the design, through construction, to the operational phase. Completes multiple tasks with closely aligned deadlines on, or ahead of, project schedules. Commended on performance appraisal for “performing very well with limited support. . . (taking) his time with the precision needed for the work” and … “excellent attitude with difficult work”. Lead engineer for Engineering Change Requests involving radiation shielding calculations.

Calculations performed include such programmatic areas as: derivation of input values for radiological release calculations, determination of Material-at-Risk thresholds for 10 CFR 70.61 consequence categories for external receptors, and establishment of bounding quantitative radiological dose consequences to site workers derived from Process Hazards Analyses and Nuclear Safety Evaluations. Duties also include reviewing calculations of other analysts, ranking and designation of bounding radiological events requiring more detailed analysis, and instruction of less experienced engineers in safety analysis methodology and procedures.

July 1995 to August 2006

CH2MHILL Hanford, Inc.
Engineering and Technology - Design Engineering - Senior Science Specialist
Integrated Performance Assurance - Senior Science Specialist

Created hazard classifications, auditable safety analyses and risk assessments to support high priority / high visibility environmental restoration, decommissioning, and stabilization activities occurring at the world's largest environmental cleanup project. Designated by management as the key individual for complex analyses. As part of the Environmental Restoration Contractor (ERC) safety oversight staff, contributed to twelve consecutive award fee ratings of “outstanding” from the Department of Energy with no lost time accidents since the inception of the contract (July 1994). Recipient of the Environmental Restoration Contractor Team, Gold Award, recognizing "... initiative, innovation and personal commitment ...” for safety analysis support of the 100-NR-1 liquid waste site remediation design. Recipient of Environmental Restoration Contractor Team, Silver Award, recognizing "...unusual initiative, tenacity, diplomacy and effective communication in the completion of the 116-N-3 Crib and Trench remediation Auditable Safety Analysis/Final Hazard Classification". Recipient of Environmental Restoration Contractor Team, Gold Award, recognizing safety analysis support that lead to successful completion of Group 4 liquid waste site remediation design, "... on budget and ahead of schedule".

Supported Unreviewed Safety Question and Memorandum of Change evaluations. Performed environmental transport / dispersion modeling (RESRAD) in support of final Clean-up Verification Packages for solid and liquid radioactive waste disposal remediation sites, and to characterize residual environmental risk and verify and document final environmental compliance. Received Environmental Restoration Contractor Team, Silver Award , recognizing dispersion modeling support that lead to a "... reader-friendly, technically sound product." Primary reviewer for all company deliverables dealing with safety analysis or criticality issues. Commended on performance evaluation for being: “Extremely strong technically ...very technically astute/competent...very sensitive in meeting schedules/ commitments ...an excellent writer ...a team player...a good communicator with team leads and clients, very organized”.

Author of Auditable Safety Analyses, and Preliminary and Final Hazard Classifications for various facility and groundwater remediation and stabilization projects, surveillance and maintenance activities, sampling activities, decontamination/decommissioning efforts and demolition activities. All Final Hazard Classifications involved consequence analysis, including worst-case downwind worker and public dose projections, and/or external exposure modeling. My completion of the Preliminary Hazard Classification for the 1301/1325-N Crib and Trench remediation project was recognized by the project engineer in a memorandum to my management as “...a significant effort that went well beyond the call of duty...”. Completed other diverse assignments, such as a Screening Evaluation for a Potential Unreviewed Safety Question at a liquid waste disposal remediation site, a Request for Proposal used to solicit subcontractor bids for safety analysis support, and lead health physicist on the N-Reactor Remotely Operated Sediment Extraction Equipment (ROSEE) Readiness Assessment Team.

Administered Risk Management Medical Surveillance database, assuring all CH2MHill Hanford employees were enrolled in the appropriate hazardous chemical, industrial and radiological medical monitoring programs. Appointed Chemical Hygiene Officer for CH2MHill Hanford activities. Responsible for conducting audits and providing safety oversight of environmental sampling and analytical facilities, assuring compliance with Chemical Hygiene Plan. Contributed to the ERC surpassing its goal of one million man-hours without a lost-time accident – five times.

Appointed Chair of Working Group 5 (Regulatory Process/Issues) provided licensing and regulatory support for the Nuclear Medicine Research Council, a local community task force seeking to develop the Fast Flux Test Facility reactor into a medical isotopes/tritium production reactor.

February 1995 to July 1995

Bechtel Hanford, Inc. - Senior Health Physicist
Radiological Controls

Created and reviewed safety procedures to insure compliance with 10 CFR 835, D.O.E. Orders and the DOE Radiological Control Manual. Created and reviewed safety documentation, which supported field radioanalytical, decommissioning and environmental restoration activities. Assessed quality of radiological assessment field data. Received memo of commendation from the president of Bechtel Hanford for my work on the 10 CFR 835 implementation plan citing “. . . commitment, focus and dedication [needed] to meet the goal.”

July 1994 to February 1995

Bechtel Hanford, Inc. - Project Health Physicist
Design Engineering

Lead Author of the Preliminary Hazard Classification for the decommissioning of Hanford 's 105-C plutonium production reactor. Reviewed decommissioning project design packages and provided safety and health physics support from conceptual design stages through project completion. Reviews included determination of adequacy of radiological safety instrumentation, for various decommissioning and environmental restoration projects. Lead health physicist for the Bechtel’s Pre-Existing Conditions Risk Evaluation Team. Project Lead for Radiological Control policy documentation, responsible for coordinating information from field organizations into company-wide radiological control procedures.

January 1991 to June 1994

Westinghouse Hanford Company - Principal Health Physicist
Environmental Restoration Project Safety Engineering

Lead health physicist on the Westinghouse Hanford, Inc. Risk Management Study for the Retired Hanford Site Facilities, performing radiological risk assessments of retired plutonium production reactors and associated uranium/plutonium processing and separation facilities, including the most seriously contaminated facilities on the site (over 100 individual facilities). This risk assessment program was cited by the customer (DOE) as “... an exceptional product ... that will have maximum value at the retired facilities” and was adopted at other DOE sites as a model program. For my involvement in this project I received the Westinghouse - Engineered Applications Award for World-Class Engineering and Scientific Excellence and was nominated for the George Westinghouse Signature Award of Excellence.

Lead author of the Large Scale Remediation Preliminary Safety Evaluation dealing with the remediation of the burial grounds, underground cribs and liquid waste disposal sites associated with the retired 100 B/C plutonium production reactors. Certified for RCRA/CERCLA Hazardous Waste Site access in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120. Received a memo of commendation for “. . . an outstanding job . . .” as United Waycoordinator for the function.

Westinghouse Hanford Company - Principal Health Physicist
Standard Safety Analysis Report Development

Managed individual safety analysis projects, reporting budgetary and project status to management and team leads. Developed Safety Analysis Report chapters for various low and intermediate hazard state-of-the-art waste processing and disposal facilities, specializing in Conduct of Operations and Operational Safety Requirements/ Technical Safety Requirements, including TSRs for the multiple-source-term Central Waste Complex. Created compliance matrix to verify compliance with DOE Orders enabling restart of the 242-A Evaporator - a multimillion-dollar, liquid waste volume-reduction facility.

Commended on performance appraisal for being an “. . . excellent project manager”, employing a “. . . consistently conservative approach to safety documentation”, maintaining “very high productivity” and for possessing “outstanding” writing and editing skills. Received memo of commendation citing “ . . . energy, creativity and dedication . . .” in completing the function's United Way pledge drive two weeks ahead of schedule.

1988 to 1990

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Senior Health Physicist
Materials Licensing

Evaluated applications and issued specific licenses for the Commission's most complex radioactive materials programs including; broadscope industrial, medical and academic research and development programs, nuclear pharmacies, irradiators and medical product manufacturing and distribution licensees. Completed more licensing casework than any other reviewer in the United States . Received memo of commendation from the Regional Administrator citing: “. . . positive attitude and superior productivity that is unmatched in the NRC.” Reviewed decommissioning plans and close-out survey results of retired NRC materials facilities. Provided project management support to Section Chief and Headquarters oversight staff, responsible for tracking reviewer caseloads, timeliness of licensing actions, status of technical assistance requests and for training and tracking the progress of less experienced reviewers. Managed the Materials Licensing Section in the absence of the Section Chief.

Provided health physics and dose projection support for reactor and materials facilities emergency preparedness exercises. Analyzed and validated licensee's bioassay data in support of escalated enforcement cases. Received memo of commendation from my management for one of these analyses which cited a quality of work that was " . . . defendable in any health physics forum in the country." Coordinator for the regional workshop on the revised 10 CFR Part 35 (medical uses of isotopes). This workshop was cited in the Health Physics Society's Newsletter as “. . . an excellent example of productive communications.” Originator of regional licensing guides for such specialized medical uses as remote afterloaders and gamma knives. Evaluated adequacy of the licensee’s radiological instrumentation and calibration practices, as well as radiological monitoring practices for the Commission's most complex radioactive materials programs. Evaluated shielding design for teletherapy and panoramic irradiator facilities. Project management skills recognized in a memo of commendation stating, in part: “It is very satisfying to a manager to be able to turn a project such as this over to someone like yourself and have the job so well done.” Awarded the NRC Special Achievement Certificate.



1987 to 1988

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Agreement State Program Officer

Reviewed state radiological control programs, evaluated their adequacy for protecting public health and safety. Responsible for health physics and program management evaluations of Agreement State Radiological Control Programs, providing appraisals and feedback to state agency directors and NRC Headquarters program directors. Evaluated proposed state radiological health regulations for compatibility with federal regulations. Issued evaluations to state agency directors. Provided guidance on, and interpretation of, NRC regulations to state regulatory personnel. Provided health physics, state liaison and dose projection support for emergency preparedness exercises involving reactor, fuel facility, and materials facilities. Awarded the NRC Special Achievement Certificate (included cash award).

1979 to 1987

U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Senior Health Physicist/Radiation Specialist Materials Licensing/Materials Inspection

Provided project management assistance to the Section Chief by tracking the status of pending casework and coordinating technical assistance requests with Headquarters. Developed Commission regulatory policies, procedures, and licensing guides for radioactive material use. Specialized in the licensing and inspection of broadscope medical, industrial and academic licensees. Managed the Materials Inspection Section in the absence of the Section Chief. Commended on performance appraisal as “. . . the best writer in the (materials licensing) section.” Awarded NRC High Quality Certificate.

Instructor at local college for lecture/laboratory course: Nuclear Physics for Nuclear Medicine Technologists. Guest speaker on regulatory issues for the 1983 and 1984 Stan A. Huber Consultants, Inc. Nuclear Medicine Technologist Training courses, receiving the highest speaker evaluation ratings, both years. Received letter of thanks from the president of the company, stating, in part: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission can certainly be proud of the totally professional yet realistic and humanistic image that you portray for your agency.”

Inspected and evaluated medical, academic, and industrial radiological protection programs to determine compliance with Commission requirements. Provided resource management updates to Section Chief on due/overdue inspections and escalated enforcement case progress. Provided technical support on investigations of noncompliant licensees, including assessment of the licensee’s radiological monitoring programs and instrumentation. Prepared escalated enforcement cases for follow-up by the NRC's Office of Inspection and Enforcement and/or the FBI. Performed teletherapy unit output verifications. Assisted in the development and application of Commission Regulatory policies, procedures, criteria, and guides for medical, academic and industrial licensing and inspection programs. Assumed acting Section Chief position in the absence of the Materials Inspection Section Chief.

1978 to 1979

Duke University Medical Center - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cardiac Physiology

Managed the department's electron microscopy lab and staff. Wrote grant proposal that was awarded funding from the North Carolina Heart Association. Co-authored chapter reviewing cardiac physiology research.



EDUCATION

1978   Ph.D. Bionucleonics
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Environmental Health Fellow
Purdue University
West Lafayette , IN

1976   M. S. Bionucleonics
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, Environmental Health Fellow
Purdue University
West Lafayette , IN

1974   B. A. Botany
University of Wisconsin
Milwaukee , Wisconsin
Graduated with Departmental Honors.

Contact: William J Adam, 108 Hunters Crossing, North Augusta , SC , phone: Home: (803) 341-9096, email: w.adam108@yahoo.com

(This résumé was posted on 28 April 2008.)