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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
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