Ken Scheffter is a Senior Nuclear Consultant at Talisman. He has over 26 years of engineering and management experience, including extensive startup, operations, engineering, and maintenance management, as well as technical and management consulting assignments in a number of DOE nuclear material processing facilities. Past assignments included highly enriched uranium fuel facility startup and commissioning, plutonium and uranium separations facility operations, tritium extraction/purification operations, and tritium-related weapons component production. Consulting assignments include new waste processing facility design process and functional specification development at Savannah River (SR) and strategic nuclear material stabilization/disposition path analysis at DOE Headquarters and major DOE sites including Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LANL and LLNL), Hanford, Oak Ridge (OR), Idaho (ID), and SR. Mr. Scheffter has specific technical expertise in nuclear and non-nuclear site and facility deactivation/closure planning, and recent technical assignments in this field include deactivation and decommissioning project planning for nuclear facilities at LANL, OR, Mound, SR, and Hanford.
Through his service as a submarine officer in the Naval Nuclear Power Program, Mr. Scheffter has expertise in the startup, testing, operation, and maintenance of pressurized water reactors and steam/electrical generation systems. He has a thorough understanding of reactor protection systems, reactor and steam plant mechanical and instrumentation systems, and electrical distribution systems.
Mr. Scheffter is also a recognized expert in the field of nuclear materials stabilization, processing, handling, and management. He has expertise in all aspects of instrumentation for in-process measurement of the attributes of nuclear materials. He also has expertise in nuclear material protection, control, and accountability requirements. He has a broad background in nuclear weapons and surplus nuclear material management/disposition strategies. He has provided management and technical support to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Safety Administration, Defense Programs, and Environmental Management Programs at both Headquarters and DOE field sites, and holds an active clearance with DOE.