PHILADELPHIA, PA., August 20, 2024 — The Biden-Harris Administration has tapped Day & Zimmermann’s (D&Z) Jason Dunaway, President, Union Operations, to serve on its newly formed Nuclear Power Project Management and Delivery Working Group. Dunaway has over 30 years of experience in the nuclear industry and construction management and is an expert in the safe and cost-effective execution of capital projects in the power generation market. Dunaway’s leadership at D&Z offers the working group perspectives on past project implementation experience, lessons learned, and an intimate connection to our country’s skilled craft workers.
The Nuclear Power Project Management and Delivery Working Group has been established to help the Administration drive nuclear reactor deployment while ensuring ratepayers and project stakeholders are better protected by proactively mitigating sources of cost and schedule overrun risk. The working group will help further the Administration’s goal of delivering an efficient and cost-effective deployment of clean, reliable nuclear energy and ensuring that learnings translate to cost savings for future construction and deployment.
Under Dunaway’s leadership, D&Z is working closely with states and the federal government to ensure nuclear bolsters our domestic energy supply and new nuclear technology comes to fruition while also supporting the skilled trades so hands-on careers remain valued and filled — a crucial aspect to achieving the country’s nuclear energy goals.
For example, D&Z is currently assisting X-energy as part of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Reactor Development Program and performing pre-construction services for proposed Small Modular Reactor locations in Texas and Washington state. In addition, D&Z is participating as a “contractor for science” supporting fusion discovery and experimentation on the Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment Facilities Enhancement Project at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Integral to helping add the newest nuclear reactors in the U.S. to the grid in over two decades, D&Z also supported the construction, functional, and acceptance testing phases at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle AP1000 Unit 3 and Unit 4 and is now the maintenance contractor.
D&Z has four decades of experience performing operations, maintenance, capital projects, and technical services and is currently at more than half of the country’s nuclear fleet (54 of 94 operating reactor units) and supports Canada’s Bruce Power. This work annually involves 16 million hours managing 15,000 skilled craft professionals across the U.S alone.
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