Joseph F. Bader, Board Member
Mr. Joseph F. Bader, of the District of Columbia, was appointed a Member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board on November 29, 2004. Mr. Bader has held executive and senior management positions primarily in the nuclear weapons complex and nuclear power sectors for Hill International, Inc., Fluor Daniel, Inc., Exxon Nuclear and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He has conducted numerous program/project reviews and has extensive knowledge of design, construction management and operations of R&D facilities, materials production, and power plants.

Career Highlights

Mr. Bader, serving as Vice President, Hill International, Inc., planned and managed a variety of programmatic and design reviews of complex DOE capital construction projects for the Office of Engineering and Construction Management. These independent reviews of DOE projects are mandated by Congress and were performed for the Office of Engineering and Construction Management.

Mr. Bader, as Senior Project Director, Fluor Daniel, Inc., started up and managed Fluor Daniel's Washington program office to perform design and construction management services in support of the $2.5 billion program to build a "safer, more modern, and more environmentally benign" DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex. Mr. Bader and his multi-disciplined staff provided regulatory compliance, master scheduling, systems engineering and integration, design and construction issues identification, and management for eight projects over eight years.

Subsequent to his assignment to lead the Weapons Complex Reconfiguration Washington office, Mr. Bader supported the $5.6 billion contract to manage and operate the DOE Hanford Reservation. He led a team of managers, professionals and workers in developing a seven-year strategic plan to double the percentage of the annual billion dollar budget applied to actual cleanup and closure activities at the DOE Hanford Site. A major focus was revising the philosophy and application of maintenance and operating procedures for the non-nuclear facilities and systems. He co-authored a Hanford site-wide "Critical Self-Assessment" of the contractors architectural, engineering, construction, construction management, operations, and maintenance performance. The Assessment was prepared for the Democratic Senator from Washington and the DOE in response to Congressional and State concern over the contractor's performance. The final report included recommended actions to resolve performance problems uncovered in the review.

 Following the completion of an internal review for Fluor Daniel to determine the causes of the Duratek Duramelter™ pilot plant failure at Fernald, Mr. Bader prepared a technical risk-based plan for treatment of silo wastes to avoid future failures. Mr. Bader performed a corporate risk analysis to determine which of the several technically feasible paths for silo waste treatment involved the least risk to worker and public health and safety.

As Vice President, Duratek Corporation, responsible for managing technology development and deployment, Mr. Bader addressed major issues from the processing of Department of Energy wastes to radioactive wastewater treatment technologies for reducing nuclear power plant waste volumes and thus operating costs. He introduced the use of vitrification for radioactive waste encapsulation to the company's products and services. He established joint ventures with Bechtel, Westinghouse and major overseas companies such as Siemens and JGC of Japan to deploy vitrification and other waste processing technology domestically. He oversaw design, installation, construction and startup of several systems resulting from these joint ventures.

As Senior Manager, Facilities and Licenses, for Urenco, Inc., Mr. Bader helped establish and manage a multi-national, United States based consortium to design and build a $750 million U.S. ultracentrifuge uranium enrichment plant based on European technology. Mr. Bader led the preparation of the technical, commercial, conceptual design and regulatory basis for the facility. A public acceptance and political acceptance program was developed and implemented.

As Westinghouse Program Manager, Mr. Bader had programmatic oversight responsibilities of the 100,000 kg/yr mixed oxide production facility. He participated in the final design decision, the development of safeguards and security requirements, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission and State of South Carolina compliance activities. He prepared and participated in the public and political acceptance activities in the State and in Washington, DC.

Mr. Bader was responsible as Senior Engineer, Babcock and Wilcox, for the therman/hydraulic design of the nuclear reactor cores for the German commercial nuclear ship, the Otto Hahn, the Japanese commercial nuclear ship, the Mutsu, and for the nuclear reactor power upgrade of the United States commercial nuclear ship, the N.S. Savannah.

Education: M. S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Virginia, 1970
B. S., Mechanical Engineering, Villanova University 1962

Professional American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Memberships: American nuclear Society

Honors: Pi Tau Sigma

Others: Providence Hospital Citizens Board
Chairman, Audit Committee
Member, Finance Committee