Mr. Deboo has 28 years experience working in the nuclear power generation field. Mr. DeBoo’s recent experience includes fatigue, crack growth and flaw stability analyses necessary to demonstrate operability for most power plant components. These evaluations would include root cause and remaining life determinations. He has extensive experience with IGSCC and other material degradation issues. He also has performed and supervised functionality and operability evaluations of systems and components to address unanticipated operating events or conditions, which do not meet inspection or test requirements.

During his 28 years in nuclear power generation, Mr. DeBoo has worked on three major nuclear projects (six units) including all design, inspection and testing phases leading to commercial operation. This experience included system and component seismic qualification, component fatigue qualification, licensing and design review for fuel load, special analytical assessments of the safety significance of installation discrepancies, and system/equipment/component functionality/operability evaluations resulting from startup and operating test programs.

Mr. DeBoo has extensive experience in the evaluation of fatigue-related problems, material degradation issues and the assessment of remaining life in vessels, piping and supports for nuclear applications. He has performed safety evaluations for unanticipated operating events, and has developed plant-unique acceptance criteria to permit continued operation. Those events include fluid transients, thermally stratified flows, and flow-induced vibration. He supervised the AMSE Class 1 piping fatigue analysis on two BWR units and two PWR units.

Mr. Deboo has a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and a M. S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the ASME. Currently he is serving on Section XI of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code as a member of the Working Group on Pipe Flaw Evaluations and as the Secretary of the Working Group on Flaw Evaluation.