ML20112D572

Intervenor Exhibit I-SC-LP-36,consisting of Prof Qualifications of Gc Minor

ML20112D572
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	08/06/1984
From:	George Minor MHB TECHNICAL ASSOCIATES
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I-SC-LP-036, I-SC-LP-36, OL-4, NUDOCS 8501140374
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PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS OF GREGORY C. MINOR GREGORY C. MINOR MHB Technical Associates 1723 Ha=ilton Avenue .

Suite K San Jose, California 95125 (408) 266-2716 EXPERIENCE:

1976.to PRESENT Vice-President - MHB Technical Associates, San Jose, California Engineering and. energy consultant to state, federal, and private organizations and individuals. Major activities include studies of safety and risk involved in energy generarion, providing technical consulting to legislative, regulatory, public and private groups and expert witness in behalf of state organizations and citizens' groups. Was co-editor of a critique of the Reactor Safety Study (WASH-1400) for the Union of Concerned Scientists and co-author of a risk analysis of Swedish reactors for the Swedish Energy Co==ission. Served on the Peer Review Group of the NRC/TMI Special Inquiry Group (Rogovin Co==ittee). Actively involved in the Nuclear Power Plant Standards Co=mittee work for the Instrucent Society of A= erica (ISA).

-1972-1976 Manager, Advanced Control and Instrunentation Engineerin'g, General Electric Co=pany, Nuclear Energy Division, San Jose, California Managed a design and develop =ent group of thirty-four engineers and support personnel designing syste=s for use in the ceasurecent, control and operation of nuclear reactors. Involved coordination with other reactor design organizations, the Nuclear Regulatory Co==ission, and customers, both overseas and do=estic. Responsibilities included coordinating and managing and design and develop =ent of control sfste=s, sa fe ty sys tecs , and new control concepts for use on the next generation of reactors. The position included responsibility for standards applicable to' control and instru=entation, as well as the design of short-tern solutions to field proble=s. The disciplines involved included electrical and mechanical engineering, seis=ic design and process co=puter control /progra==ing, and equip =ent qualification. .

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1970 - 1972 Manager, Reactor Control Systems Design, General Electric Company, Nuclear Energy Division, San Jose, California Managed a group of seven engineers and two support personnel in the design and preparation of the detailed system drawings and control documents  ;

relating to safety and emergency systems for nuclear reactors.

Responsibility required coordination with other design organizations and interaction with the customer's engineering personnel, as well as regulatory personnel.

- 1963 - 1970 -

Design Engineer, General Electric Company, Nuclear Energy Division, San Jose, California Responsible for the design of specific control and instrumentation systems

, for nuclear reactors. Lead design responsibility for various subsyste=s of instrumentation used to measure neutron flux in the reactor during startup and intermediate power operation. Performed lead ' system design function in the design of a major system for measuring the power generated in nuclear reactors. Other responsibilities included on-site checkout and testing of a complete reactor control system at an experimental reactor in the Southwest. Received patent for Nuclear Power Monitoring System.

• 1960 - 1963  ;

. Advanced Engineering Program, General Electric Company; Assignments in Washington, California, and Arizona Rotating assignments in a variety of disciplines:

Engineer,, reactor maintenance and instrument design, KE and D reactors, Hanford, Washington, ' circuit design and equipment maintenance coordination.

Design engineer, Microwave Department, Palo Alto, California. Worked on design of cavity couplers for Microwave Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT).

Design engineer, Computer D'epartment, Phoenix, Arizona. Design of core driving circuitry.

Design engineer, Atomic Power Equipment Department, San Jose, California. Circuit design and analysis. .

Design engineer, Space Systems Department, Santa Barbara, Cclifornia, Prepared control portion of satellite proposal.

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- Technical Staff - Technical Military Planning operation. (TEMPO),

Santa Barbara, California. Prepare analyses of missile exchanges.

Dur[ng this period, completed three-year General Electric program of extensive education in advanced engineering principles of high'er mathematics, probability and analysis. Also completed. courses in Kepner-Tregoe, Effective Presentation, Management Training Program, and various technical seminars.

EDUCATION University of California at Berkeley, BSEE, 1960.

Advanced Course in Engineering - three-year curriculum, General Electric Company, 1963.

Stanford University, MSEE, 1966.

HONORS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

- Tau Beta Pi. Engineering Honorary Society

- Co-holder of U.S. Patent No. 3,565-760, " Nuclear Reactor Power Monitoring System," February, 1971.

Member: American Association for Advance of Science.

Member: Nuclear Power Plant Standards Co=mittee, Instrucent Society of America.

PERSONAL DATA Born: June 7, 1937

• Married, three children Residence: San Jose, California PUBLICATIONS AND TESTIMONY ,

1. G. C. Minct, S. E. Moore, " Control Rod Signal Multiplexing," IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. NS-19, February, 1972.

2. G. C. Minor, W. G. Milam, "An Integrated Control Room System .or a Nuclear Power Plant," KEDO-10658, presented at International Nuclear Industries Fair and Technical Meetings, October, 1972, Basie, l Switzerland.

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3. The above article was also published in the German Technical Magazine, NT, March, 1973.

4. Testimony of G. C. Minor, D. G. Bridenbaugh, and R. B. Hubbard before the Joint, Committee on Atomic Energy, Hearing held February 18, 1976, and published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts. .

5. Testimony of G. C. Minor, D. G. Bridenbaugh, and R. B. Hubbard before the California State Assembly Committee on Resources, Land Use, and Energy, March 8, 1976.

6. Testimony of G. C. Minor and R. B. Hubbard before the California State Senate Committee on Public Utilities, Transit, and Energy, March 23,

, 1976.

7. Testimony of G. C. Minor regarding the Grafenrheinfeld Nuclear Plant, March 16-17, 1977, Wurzburg, Germany.

8. Testimony of G. C. Minor before the Cluff Lake Board of Inquiry, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Department 21, 1977.

9. The Risks of Nuclear Power Reactors: A Review of the NRC Reactor Safety Stt 'y WASH-1400 (NUREG-75/0140), H. Kendall, et al, edited by G. C. Minot and R. B. Hubbard for the Union of Concerned Scientists, August, 1977.

10. Swedish Reactor Safety Study: Barseback Risk Assessment, KHB Technical Associates, January, 1978. (Published by Swedish Department of Industry as Document Sd1 1978:1)

11. Testimony by G. C. Minor before the Wisconsin Public Service Cocmission, February 13, 1978, Loss of Coolant Accidents: Their Probability and Consequence.

12. Testimony'by G. C. Minor before the California Legislature Assembly Co=mittee on Resources, Land Use, and Energy, AB 3108, April 26, 1978, Sacramento, California.

13. Presentation by G. C. Minor before the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT), Meeting on Reactor Safety Research, Man / Machine In te r face in Nuclear Reactors, August 21, and Septecher 1, 1978, Benn, Germany.

14. Testimony of G. C. Mincr, D. G. Bridenbaugh, and R. B. Hubbard, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, September 25, 1978, in the matter of Black Fox hucicar Power Station Construction Permit Hearings, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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15. Testimony of G. C. Minor, ASLB Hearings Related to TMI-2 Accident,

' Rancho Seco Power Plant, on behalf of Friends of the Earth, September 13, 1979.

16. Testimony of G.' C. Minor before the Michigan State Legislature, Special Joint Committee on Nuclear Energy, Implications of Three Mile Island Accident for'Ruclear Power Plants in Michigan, October 15, 1979.

17. A Critical View of Reactor Safety, by G. C. Minor, paper presented to the American Association for the Advancement.of Science, Symposium on Nuclear Reactor Safety, January 7, 1980, San Francisco, California.

18. The Ef fects of Aging on Safety of Nuclear Power Plants. , paper presented at Forum on Swedish Nuclear Referendum, Stockholm, Sweden, March 1, 1980.

19. Minnesota Nuclear Plants Gaseous Emissions Study, KHB Technical Associates, September, 1960, prepared for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Roseville, MN.

20. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh before the New York State Public Service Co==ission, Shoreham Nuclear Plant Construction Schedule, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company Temporary Rate Case, September 22, 1980.

21. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh before the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Oyster Creek 1980 Refueling Outage Investigation, in the matter of Jeresey Central Power and Light Rate Case, February 19, 1981.

22. Systems Interaction and Single Failure Criterion, MHB Technical Associates, January, 1981, prepared for and available from the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Stockholm, Sweden.

23. Systems Interaction and Single Failure Criterion: Phase II Report, MEB Technical Associates, February 1982, prepared for and available from the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Stockholm, Sweden.

24. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh on PORV's and Pressurizer Heaters. Diablo Canyon Operating License hearing before ASLB, January 11, 1982.

25. Testimony of G. C. Minor and R. B. Hubbard on Emergency Response Planning. Diablo Canyon Operating License hearing before ASLS, January 10, 1982.

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26. Testimony of G. C. Minor, R. B. Hubbard, M. W. Goldsmith, S. J.

Harwood on behalf of Suffolk County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham, Nuclear Power Station, Uhit 1, regarding Contention 7B, Safety Classification and Systems Interaction, April 13, 1982.

27. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh on behalf of Suffolk County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, regarding Suffolk County Contention 11, Passive Mechanical Valve Failure, April 13, 1982.

28. Testimony of G. C. Minor and R. ,B. Hubbard on behalf of Suf folk

- County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, regarding Suffolk County Contention 27 and SOC Contention 3, Post-Accident Monitoring, May 25, 1982.

29. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh on behalf of Suf folk County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, regarding Suffolk County Contention 22, SRV Test Program, May 25, 1982.

30. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh on behalf of Suf folk County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, regarding Suffolk County Contention 28(a)(vi) and SOC Contention 7A(6), Reduction of SRV Challenges, June 14, 1982.

31. Testimony of G. C. Mince on behalf of Suf folk County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station Unit 1, regarding Environmen,tal Qualification, January 18, 1983.

32. Testimony of G. C. Minor and D. G. Bridenbaugh before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Co= mission, on behalf of the Of fice of Consumer Advocate, Regarding the Cost of Constructing the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Unit I, Re: Pennsylvania Power and Light, March 18, 1983.

33. Supplemental testimony of G. C. Minor, R. B. Hubbard, and M. W.

Goldsmith on behalf of Suf folk County, before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Sta: ion, Unit 1, regarding Suffolk County Centention 73, Safety Classification and Systems Interaction, March 23, 1983.

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34. Testimony before the District Court Judge in the case of Sierra Club et al. vs. DOE regarding the Clean up of Uranium Mill Tailings. June 20, 1983.

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35. Systems Interaction and Single Failure Criterion: Phase 3 Report, MHB Technical Associates, June, 1983, prepared for and available from the Swedish Nuclear Power Iospectorate, Stockholm, Sweden.

36. Systematic Evaluation Program: Status Report and Initial Evaluation, MHB Technical Associates, June, 1983, prepared for and available from the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, Stockholm, Sweden.

37. Testimony of G. C. Miaor, F. C. Finlayson, and E. P. Radford before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, in the Matter of Long Island Lighting Company, Shoreham Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1, regarding Emergency Planning Contentions 65, 23.D and 23.H, November 18, 1983.

38. Testimony of G. C. Minor, Sizewell 'B' Power Station Public Inquiry, Proof of Evidence Regarding Safety Issues, December, 1983.

39. Testimony of D. G. Bridenbaugh, L. M. Danielson, R. B. Hubbard and G.

C. Minor before the State of New York Public Serevice Commission, PSC Case No. 27563, in the matter of Long Island Lighting Company Proceeding to Investigate the Cost of the Shoreham Nuclear Generating Facility -- Phase II, on behalf of County of Suffolk, February 10, 1984.

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