6. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PROJECTS:
Key Elements: Interagency coordination, effective communication with staff at all levels of facility operation, waste treatment plans, discharge audits, hazardous waste contingency plans and exercises, fire protection, and environmental compliance.
Ms. Robinson’s experience at DOE facilities includes the performance of fire protection, safety, and emergency response assessments; development of health and safety, fire protection, and emergency response manuals and procedures; development of waste minimization management and mixed waste site treatment plans; and identification of liquid effluent discharges. From 1994 to 1996, she served on the Executive Committee of the American Nuclear Society’s Environmental Sciences Division and was a member of the DOE Fire Safety, Fire Department Subcommittee.
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), Idaho Falls, Idaho. From 1992 through 1996, Ms. Robinson held an “L” security clearance for INEEL, where she supported INEEL nuclear fuel, waste management, and environmental restoration programs under E & E’s multisite, multitask contract. For the DOE Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID), she:
- Assisted in developing the Proposed Site Treatment Plan (PSTP) for management of mixed wastes at INEEL.
- Reviewed hazardous waste contingency plans for facilities permitted under RCRA and developed emergency response implementation procedures.
- Conducted field investigations to identify liquid effluent discharges from INEEL facilities.
- Evaluated plans and on-scene activities for several hazardous material emergency response exercises, including a full participation exercise for Central Facilities Area (CFA).
- Assisted DOE-ID in its evaluation of INEEL contingency fire department operations, training, and response capabilities during a firefighter labor action.
- Provided fire protection expertise for a DOE oversight audit at Test Area North/Specific Manufacturing Capabilities (TAN/SMC); prepared a fire hazards analysis (FHA) for the RESL laboratory complex; developed the draft sitewide fire protection manual; and revised fire protection engineering and operation requirements contained in the site architectural engineering standards manual.
- Managed the revision of the health and safety sections of the INEEL Environmental Compliance Planning Manual.
- Helped prepare INEEL’s pollution prevention (P2) program management plan.
DOE Oakland Mixed Waste Site Treatment Plans, California and Missouri. Under E & E’s Environmental Restoration and Waste Management contract, Ms. Robinson was a key member of the team that developed draft, proposed, and final mixed waste site treatment plans (STPs) for five DOE sites (four in California and one in Missouri) that were used as the basis for compliance order negotiations with affected states.
ARMS Technology Demonstration, Joliet, Illinois. Ms. Robinson was a member of the engineering team that planned the large-scale demonstration of the use of Advanced Recyclable Media System (ARMS) technology to clean radioactively contaminated structural elements at the CP-5 Reactor Facility at Argonne National Laboratories. To avoid affecting normal air flow from the reactor area through the demonstration room, she arranged for a specialty subcontractor to design a modified containment structure, and then helped coordinate the subcontractor’s use of ARMS technology to safely clean a radioactively contaminated concrete surface.
Safety Analysis and FHAs, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York. She prepared a graded-approach safety analysis report for a gamma irradiation facility and prepared FHAs and preliminary hazard assessments for several BNL nonreactor nuclear facilities.
Radionuclide Sampling Task Plan, Siberia. For DOE-ID, Ms. Robinson developed the technical task plan for water and sediment sampling of radionuclide contamination along the Angara and Yenisey rivers in Siberia.
DOE Hanford Site, Richland, Washington:
Summer 1977, Technician, assigned to the Westinghouse Core Physics Group supporting the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), an experimental fast reactor located on the Hanford Reservation. Developed a computer program subroutine to calculate reactor control rod worth for the FFTF.
Summer 1976, Student Appointment from the Northwest College and University Association for Science (NORCUS), assigned to the Westinghouse Core Physics Group supporting the FFTF.
6A. PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATIONS ENGINEERING:
Key Elements: Plant engineering and design, reviews, and regulatory compliance.
Umatilla Army Depot, Chemical Weapons Agent Incinerator, Hermiston, Oregon. For Oregon DEQ, Ms. Robinson assisted in drafting the emissions sections for the Post Trial Burn Risk Assessment work plan, which is associated with the agency’s oversight role for the Army’s Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF), an incinerator currently under construction to provide final disposal for stockpiled chemical weapons agents. She also served as technical team leader for two projects:
- Facility Construction Certification (FCC) Reviews. Ms. Robinson lead the team of engineers reviewing the facility construction certification on behalf of ODEQ, which included provision of detailed QA/QC reviews for each of the incinerator subsystems. She was responsible for preparing and submitting a detailed list of comments and identification of the relative level of concern for any open items or findings, and for making recommendations regarding ODEQ approval and acceptance of the FCCs.
- Surrogate Trial Burn Plan Reviews. She led a small team of chemists and risk assessors tasked with assisting ODEQ in the reviews of surrogate trial burn plans submitted to the agency by the Army and its contractor. Comments were provided to ODEQ in a form that could be easily folded into a Notice of Deficiency (NOD). In late 2003, she was also a member of the team that conducted reviews of agent trial burn plans.
Impell Corporation, Nuclear Generating Stations, Texas, California, Ohio, and Arizona. As a lead senior engineer with Impell Corporation, Ms. Robinson managed technical and QA audits for all fire protection work at the Comanche Peak Generation Station near Glen Rose, Texas. During an 18-month field assignment, she was project engineer and the utility’s representative for fire hazard analysis issues during the successful 1985 Appendix R audit of the Rancho Seco facility in California, remaining on-site as project engineer for the plant’s nuclear engineering fire protection staff. She supervised and trained the nine individuals responsible for fire protection compliance and technical reviews of all plant modifications, evaluation of nonconformance reports, and preparation/submission of licensing basis documents. She later served as assistant nuclear operations fire protection coordinator, managing the staff of 10 professionals responsible for operations regulatory compliance, loss prevention and safety inspection, combustibles control, hot work permits, detection/suppression system compensatory measures, and fire watch training.
During other 1- to 6-month field assignments with Impell, she conducted safe shutdown evaluations (engineering system analyses and regulatory compliance reviews for essential plant systems) for five other power generating stations: Davis-Besse in Ohio, the South Texas Project in Texas, San Onofre Units 2/3 and Rancho Seco in California, and Palos Verde Units 1/2/3 in Arizona. In addition, she was project engineer for safe shutdown reviews for all proposed plant modifications at Davis-Besse and Rancho Seco.
Bechtel Power Corporation, Nuclear Generating Stations, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas. As a mechanical engineer with Bechtel Power Corporation in San Francisco, Ms. Robinson conducted engineering analyses of mechanical systems, including heat transfer and fluid flow analyses and was responsible for the leak-before-break fracture mechanics for high-energy piping systems. She performed jet impingement and water hammer evaluations, and evaluations concerning special hazards and fire protection. As the cognizant engineer for a large in-house fluid mechanics/heat transfer code used to model releases from high pressure steam piping systems, she was responsible for developing the engineering basis, programming, and benchmark cases for improving the model or evaluating unusual configurations. Her assignments included providing engineering support for the Diablo Canyon power plant in California, the Hope Creek plant in New Jersey, the Pilgrim plant in Massachusetts, and the Susquehanna plant in Pennsylvania.
Tasks for Bechtel also included a six-month field assignment to develop as-built drawings and inspect components for passive and active fire protection systems at the two-unit Arkansas Nuclear One station near Russellville, Arkansas.
Key Elements: Interagency coordination, effective communication with staff at all levels of facility operation, waste treatment plans, discharge audits, hazardous waste contingency plans and exercises, fire protection, and environmental compliance.
Ms. Robinson’s experience at DOE facilities includes the performance of fire protection, safety, and emergency response assessments; development of health and safety, fire protection, and emergency response manuals and procedures; development of waste minimization management and mixed waste site treatment plans; and identification of liquid effluent discharges. From 1994 to 1996, she served on the Executive Committee of the American Nuclear Society’s Environmental Sciences Division and was a member of the DOE Fire Safety, Fire Department Subcommittee.
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), Idaho Falls, Idaho. From 1992 through 1996, Ms. Robinson held an “L” security clearance for INEEL, where she supported INEEL nuclear fuel, waste management, and environmental restoration programs under E & E’s multisite, multitask contract. For the DOE Idaho Operations Office (DOE-ID), she:
- Assisted in developing the Proposed Site Treatment Plan (PSTP) for management of mixed wastes at INEEL.
- Reviewed hazardous waste contingency plans for facilities permitted under RCRA and developed emergency response implementation procedures.
- Conducted field investigations to identify liquid effluent discharges from INEEL facilities.
- Evaluated plans and on-scene activities for several hazardous material emergency response exercises, including a full participation exercise for Central Facilities Area (CFA).
- Assisted DOE-ID in its evaluation of INEEL contingency fire department operations, training, and response capabilities during a firefighter labor action.
- Provided fire protection expertise for a DOE oversight audit at Test Area North/Specific Manufacturing Capabilities (TAN/SMC); prepared a fire hazards analysis (FHA) for the RESL laboratory complex; developed the draft sitewide fire protection manual; and revised fire protection engineering and operation requirements contained in the site architectural engineering standards manual.
- Managed the revision of the health and safety sections of the INEEL Environmental Compliance Planning Manual.
- Helped prepare INEEL’s pollution prevention (P2) program management plan.
DOE Oakland Mixed Waste Site Treatment Plans, California and Missouri. Under E & E’s Environmental Restoration and Waste Management contract, Ms. Robinson was a key member of the team that developed draft, proposed, and final mixed waste site treatment plans (STPs) for five DOE sites (four in California and one in Missouri) that were used as the basis for compliance order negotiations with affected states.
ARMS Technology Demonstration, Joliet, Illinois. Ms. Robinson was a member of the engineering team that planned the large-scale demonstration of the use of Advanced Recyclable Media System (ARMS) technology to clean radioactively contaminated structural elements at the CP-5 Reactor Facility at Argonne National Laboratories. To avoid affecting normal air flow from the reactor area through the demonstration room, she arranged for a specialty subcontractor to design a modified containment structure, and then helped coordinate the subcontractor’s use of ARMS technology to safely clean a radioactively contaminated concrete surface.
Safety Analysis and FHAs, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, New York. She prepared a graded-approach safety analysis report for a gamma irradiation facility and prepared FHAs and preliminary hazard assessments for several BNL nonreactor nuclear facilities.
Radionuclide Sampling Task Plan, Siberia. For DOE-ID, Ms. Robinson developed the technical task plan for water and sediment sampling of radionuclide contamination along the Angara and Yenisey rivers in Siberia.
DOE Hanford Site, Richland, Washington:
Summer 1977, Technician, assigned to the Westinghouse Core Physics Group supporting the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF), an experimental fast reactor located on the Hanford Reservation. Developed a computer program subroutine to calculate reactor control rod worth for the FFTF.
Summer 1976, Student Appointment from the Northwest College and University Association for Science (NORCUS), assigned to the Westinghouse Core Physics Group supporting the FFTF.
6A. PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATIONS ENGINEERING:
Key Elements: Plant engineering and design, reviews, and regulatory compliance.
Umatilla Army Depot, Chemical Weapons Agent Incinerator, Hermiston, Oregon. For Oregon DEQ, Ms. Robinson assisted in drafting the emissions sections for the Post Trial Burn Risk Assessment work plan, which is associated with the agency’s oversight role for the Army’s Umatilla Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (UMCDF), an incinerator currently under construction to provide final disposal for stockpiled chemical weapons agents. She also served as technical team leader for two projects:
- Facility Construction Certification (FCC) Reviews. Ms. Robinson lead the team of engineers reviewing the facility construction certification on behalf of ODEQ, which included provision of detailed QA/QC reviews for each of the incinerator subsystems. She was responsible for preparing and submitting a detailed list of comments and identification of the relative level of concern for any open items or findings, and for making recommendations regarding ODEQ approval and acceptance of the FCCs.
- Surrogate Trial Burn Plan Reviews. She led a small team of chemists and risk assessors tasked with assisting ODEQ in the reviews of surrogate trial burn plans submitted to the agency by the Army and its contractor. Comments were provided to ODEQ in a form that could be easily folded into a Notice of Deficiency (NOD). In late 2003, she was also a member of the team that conducted reviews of agent trial burn plans.
Impell Corporation, Nuclear Generating Stations, Texas, California, Ohio, and Arizona. As a lead senior engineer with Impell Corporation, Ms. Robinson managed technical and QA audits for all fire protection work at the Comanche Peak Generation Station near Glen Rose, Texas. During an 18-month field assignment, she was project engineer and the utility’s representative for fire hazard analysis issues during the successful 1985 Appendix R audit of the Rancho Seco facility in California, remaining on-site as project engineer for the plant’s nuclear engineering fire protection staff. She supervised and trained the nine individuals responsible for fire protection compliance and technical reviews of all plant modifications, evaluation of nonconformance reports, and preparation/submission of licensing basis documents. She later served as assistant nuclear operations fire protection coordinator, managing the staff of 10 professionals responsible for operations regulatory compliance, loss prevention and safety inspection, combustibles control, hot work permits, detection/suppression system compensatory measures, and fire watch training.
During other 1- to 6-month field assignments with Impell, she conducted safe shutdown evaluations (engineering system analyses and regulatory compliance reviews for essential plant systems) for five other power generating stations: Davis-Besse in Ohio, the South Texas Project in Texas, San Onofre Units 2/3 and Rancho Seco in California, and Palos Verde Units 1/2/3 in Arizona. In addition, she was project engineer for safe shutdown reviews for all proposed plant modifications at Davis-Besse and Rancho Seco.
Bechtel Power Corporation, Nuclear Generating Stations, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas. As a mechanical engineer with Bechtel Power Corporation in San Francisco, Ms. Robinson conducted engineering analyses of mechanical systems, including heat transfer and fluid flow analyses and was responsible for the leak-before-break fracture mechanics for high-energy piping systems. She performed jet impingement and water hammer evaluations, and evaluations concerning special hazards and fire protection. As the cognizant engineer for a large in-house fluid mechanics/heat transfer code used to model releases from high pressure steam piping systems, she was responsible for developing the engineering basis, programming, and benchmark cases for improving the model or evaluating unusual configurations. Her assignments included providing engineering support for the Diablo Canyon power plant in California, the Hope Creek plant in New Jersey, the Pilgrim plant in Massachusetts, and the Susquehanna plant in Pennsylvania.
Tasks for Bechtel also included a six-month field assignment to develop as-built drawings and inspect components for passive and active fire protection systems at the two-unit Arkansas Nuclear One station near Russellville, Arkansas.