ML19347F644

Prof Qualifications of RB Hubbard.Certificate of Svc Encl. Related Correspondence

ML19347F644
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Issue date:	05/12/1981
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PRESENT Vice-President - MHB Technical Associates, San Jose, California.

Founder, and Vice-President of technical consulting firm. Special-is ts in independent energy assessments for government. agencies, particularly technical and economic evaluation of nuclear power facilities. Consultant in this capacity to Oklahoma and Illinois Attorney Generals, Minneso ta Pollution Control Agency, German Ministry for Research and Technology, Oavernor of Colorado, Swedish Energy Conmission, Swedish Nuclear Inspectorate, and the U .S .

Departnent of Energy. Also provided studies and testimony for various public interest groups including the Center for Law in the Public Interes t, Los Angeles; Pu blic Law Utility Group, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Frien_ds of the Earth (FOE), Italy; and the Union of Concerned S cien tis ts , Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Provided testimony to the U.S. Senate / House Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, the U.S. House ~ Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the California Assembly, Land Us e, and Energy Committee, the Advisory Committee on Reactor S afeguards, and the Atomic S af ety and Licensing Board. Performed comprehensive risk analysis of the accident probabilities and consequences at the B ars eback Nuclear Plant for the Swedish Energy Commission and edited, as well as contributed to, the Union of Concerned S cientis t's technical review of the NRC 's Reactor S af ety Study (WASH-1400).

2/76 - 9/76 Consultant, P ro j e c t' Survival, Palo Alto, California.

Volunteer work on Nuclear Saf eguards I n i t i a t i ve campaigns in Cali-fornia, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Colorado. Numerous p res en ta tions on nuclear power and a l t e rna t iv e energy options to civic, government, and college groups. Also resource person for public service presentations on radio and television.

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, Manager - Quality Assurance S ection, Nuclear Energy Control and Instrumentation Department, General Electric Company, San Jose, California, ,,.

Report to the Department General) Manager. Develop and implement quality plans, programs, methods, and equipment which assure that products produced by the Departme,nt meet quality requirements as defined in NRC regulation 10 CFR 50, Appendix 3, AS ME B oiler and Pressure %ss el Code ,' 'cus tomer contracts , and GE Corporate policies and procedures. Product areas include radiation sensors, reactor vessel internals, fuel handling and servicing tools, nuclear plant con trol and pro tection instrumentation sys tems , and nuclear s team supply and Balance of Plant control room panels. Responsible for approximately 45 exempt personnel, 22 non-exempt personnel, and 129 hourly personnel with an expense budget of nearly 4 million- " .

dollars and equipment - inves tment . budget of approximately 1.2 million dollars. [] '

11/71 - 5/75 Manager - Quality Assurance Subsection, Manuf acturing S ection of l Atomic Power Equ?.pment Department, General Electric Company, San l Jose, California.

Report to the Manager of. Manufacturing. Same functional and

product responsibilities as in Engagement #1, except at a lower organizational report level. Developed a quality system which received NRC certification in 1975. The sys tem was also success-f ully surveyed for ASME "N" and "NPT" symbol authorization in 1972 and 1975, plus AS ME "U" and "S" symbol authorizations in 1975.

Responsible for from 23 to 39 exempt personnel, 7 to 14 non-exempt personnel, and 53 to 97 hourly personnel.

3/70 - 11/71 Manager - Applicacion Engineering Subsection, Nuclear Instrumen-tation Department, General Electric Company, San Jose, California, Responsible for the post order technical interface with architect engineers and power plant owners to define and schedule th e instru-mentation and control systems f or the Nuclear S team Supply and Balance of Plant portion of nuclear power generating stations.

Responsibilities included preparation of the plant. instrument list with approximate locatten, review of interface drawings to define -

functional design requirements, and release of functional require-men ts for detailed equipment designs. Personnel supervised included 17 engineers and 5 non-exempt personnel.

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3/70 Chairman - Equipment Room Task Force, Nuclear Ins trumentation Department, General Electric Company, Son Jose, California.

Responsible for a special task force reporting to the Department General Manager to define methods to improve the quality and reduce the installation time and cost of nuclear power plant control rooms. Study resulted in the conception of a f a c to ry-f abricatadicontrol room consisting of signal conditioning and operator control panels mounced on modular floor sections which are completely assembled in the factory and thoroughly tested for proper-operation of. interacting devices. Personnel supervised included 10 exempt personnel.

. . .w 65 - 12/69 Mana ger - Proposal Engine erin g Subsection, -Nuclear Ins trumentation Department, General Electric Company, San Jose, California.

Responsible for the application of ins trumenta tion systems for nuclear power reactors during the proposal and pre-order period.

Responsible for technical review of bid specifications, preparation of technical bid clarifications and exceptions, definition of material list for cos t estimating, and the "as sold" review of contracts prior to turnover to Application Engineering. Personnel supervis ed varied from 2 to 9 engineers.

8/64 - 12/65 Sales Engineer, Nuclear Electronics Business Section of Atomic Power Equipment Department, General Electric Company, San Jose, California.

Responsible for the bid review, contract negotiation, and sale of ins trumentation sys tems and components for nuclear power plants, test reactors, and radiation hot cells. Also r e s pons ib le for industrial sales of radiation sensing systems for measurement of chemical properties, level, and density.

10/61 - 8/64 Application Engineer, Low Voltage Switchgear Department, General Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Responsible for the application and design of advanced diode and silicon-controlled rectifier constant voltage DC power systems and variable voltage DC power systems for indust-ial applications.

Designed, followed man 2facturing and personally tested an advanced SCR power supply for product introduction at the Iron and Steel Sho.

Pro,ect Engineer for a DC power system for an aluminum pot line sold to Anaconda beginning at the 161XV switchyard and enco= passing all the equipment to convert the power to 700 volts DC at 160,000 ampere

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• % 'jE Rotational Training Program q-Four 3-month assignments on the GE Rotational Training Program for college technical graduates as follows:

a. In'stallation and Service Eng. - Detroit, Michigan.

Installation and startup testing of the world's largest automated hot strip steel mill.

b. Tester - Industry Con trol - Ro anoke, Virginia.

Factory testing of control panels for control of steel, paper,' pulp, and utility mills and power plants.

c. Engineer - Light Military Electronics - Johnson City, New York.

Design of ground support equipment for te s tin g the auto pilo ts on the F-105.

d. Sales Engineer - Morrison, Illinois.

Sale of appliance controls including range timers and refrigerator cold controls.

EDUCATION:

! B achelor o f S cience Electrical Engineering, University of Arizona, t 1960.

I Mas ter o f Bus iness Adminis tration , University of Santa Clara, 1969.

l PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:

Registered Quality Engineer, License No. QU805, S tate of California.

Member of Subcommittee 8 of the Nuclear Power Engineering Committee of the IEEE Power Engineerir.g Society responsible f or the prepara-tion and revision of the following 4 national Q.A. Standards:

a. IEEE 498 (ANSI N 4 5. 2.16) : Supplementary Requirements for the Calibration and Control of Measuring And Test Equipment used in th e Construction and Maintenance of Nuclear Power Generating S tations .

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b. IEEE 336 (ANSI N45.2.4): Ins tallation, Inspection, and Tes ting Requirements f or Ins trumentation and Electric Equipment during the Construction of Nuclear Power Generating Stations. ,

c. IEEE 467 (ANSI 45.2.14): Quality Assurance Program Requirements for the Design and-Manufacture of Class IE Instrumentation and electric Equipment for Nuclear Power Generating S tations ,

d. IEEE Draft:. Requirements for Replacement Parts for Class IE Equipment Replacement Parts for Nuclear Power Generating S tations.

! PERS ONAL DATA:

Birth Date: 7/08/37

! Married; three children Health: Excellent i

PUBLICATIONS AND TESTIMONY:

1. In-Core System Provides Continuous Flux Map of Reactor Cores,

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R .B . Hubbard and C.E. Foruman, Power, November, 1967.

.[ 2. Quality Assurance: Providing It. Proving It, R .B . Hubbard, WW4L Power, May, 1972.

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3. Tes timony o f R.B . Hubbard, D .G . B rid enbaugh , and G.C. Minor before the United States Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, F eb rua ry 18, 1976, Washing ton, DC. (Published by the Union of Concerned S cientis ts , Cambridge, Massachusetts.)

Excerpts from testimony published in Quote Without Comment, Chemtech, May, 1976.

4 Tes timony of R.B . Hubbard, D.G. B rid enb au gh , and G.C. Minor to the Calif o rnia S tate Ass embly Committee on Resources, Land Use, and Energy, Sacramento, California, March 8, 1976.

5. Testimony of R. B. Hubbard and G.C. Minor before California S tate Senate Committee on Public Utilities, Transit, and Energy, Sacramento, California, March 23, 1976.

! 6. Testimony or R.3. Hubbard and G.C. Minor, Judicial Hearings Regarding Crafenrheinfeld Nuclear Plant, March 16 & 17, 1977, Wurzburg, Germany.

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7. Tes timony of R.B . Hubbard to United States House of Representatives, Suncommittee on Energy and the Environ-ment, . Tune 30, 1977, Washington, DC, entitled, Effectiveness of NRC Regulations - Modifications to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Units. '

8. Tes timony of R.B . Hubbard to the Adyisory Committee on Reactor ,

Safeguards, August 12, 1977, Washington, DC, entitled, Risk Uncertainty Due to Deficiencies in Diablo Canyon Quality Assurance Program and Failure to Implement Current NRC Practicer

9. The Risks of Naclear Power Reactors: A Review of the NRC Reactor Safety Study WASH-1400, Kendall, et al, edited by R.B.

Hubbard and G.C. Minor for the Union of Concerned Scientists, August, 1977. ,

10. Swedish Reactor Safety Stu'dy: Bars ebEck Risk Assesstent, MHB Technical Associates, January 1978 (Published by Swedish Depart-ment of Industry as Document DSI 1978:1).

11. Tes timony of R.B . Hubbard bef ore the Energy Facility S iting Council, March 31, 1978, in the matter of Pebble Springs Nuclear Power Plant, Risk Assessment: Pebble Springs Nuclear Plant, Portland, Oregon.

j !* 12. Presentation by R.B. Hubbard bef ore the Federal Ministry for epq( Research and Technology (BMFT). August 31 and September 1, 1978, pga Meeting on Reactor Safety Research, Risk Analysis, Bonn, Germany

13. Tes timony by R.B . Hubbard , D.G. Bridenbaugh, and G.C. Minor before the Atomic Saf ety and Licensing Board, September 25, 1975 in the matter of the Black Fox Nuclear Power S tation Cons tructic Permit hearings, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

14 Testimony of R .B . Hubbard before the Atomic Safety and Licensing l

Board, November 17, 1978, in the matter of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant Operating Licens e H earings , Operating Basis Earth-quake and Seismic Reanalysis of Structures, Systems, and Com-ponents, Avila Beach, California.

15. Testimony of R.B . Hubbard and D.C. B ridenbaugh bef ore the Louisiana Public S ervice Commis s ion , November 19, 1978, Nuclear Plant and Power Generation Coats, Baton Rouge,, Louisiana.

16. Tes timony of R.B . Hubbard bef ore the California Legislature, Subcommittee on Energy, Los Angeles, April 12, 1979.

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17. Testimony of R.B. Hubbard and G.C. Minor before the Federal )

UNEb Trade Commission, on behalf of the Union of Concerned I

1. mob" S cien tis ts ,; S tanda rds and Certification Proposed Rule 16 f CFR Part 4 5 7, ..May, ,18, 1979.

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18. ALO-6 2, imp' roving the Safety of LWR Pove.r Plants , MHB Technical T

Associates,- prepared f or U.S . Department of Energy, Sandia National ,Labo,r atories , September, 1979, available from NTIS.

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Tes timony by 1.B .?Hubbard b ef ore the Arizona State Legislature,

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Special Interim House Committee on Atomic Energy, Overview of Nuclear S af etr, Phoenix, AZ, September.20, 1979.

20. "The Role ofIthe ~iechnical Consultant," Practising Law Insti-tuteeprogram on " Nuclear Litigation," New York City and Chicago November, 1979. Available f rom PLI, New York City.

21. Uncertainty in Nuclear Risk Assessment Methodology, MH3 Technic Associates, January, 1980, prepared for and available from the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, S tockholm, Sweden.

22. Italian Reactor Safety S tudy : Caorso Risk Assessment, KhB Technical Associates , March, 1980, prepared for and available from Friends of the Earth, Rome, Italy.

23. Development of Study Plans: Safety Assessment of Monticello and Prairie Island Nuclear S tations , MHB Technical Associates, August, 1980, prepared for and available from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

24 Affidavit of Richard B . Hubbard and Cregory C. Minor before the Illinois Commerce Commission, In the Matter of an Investi-gation of the Plant Construction Program of the Commonwealth Edison Company, prepared for the League of Woman Voters of Rockford, Illinois, November 12, 1980, ICC Case No. 78-0646.

25. Systems Interaction and Single Failure Criterion, MHB Tech-nical Associates, November, 1980, prepared for and available from the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Stockhol=,

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