Paul Kellogg is a Senior Consultant at Talisman International. He has over 35 years of management and technical experience within the nuclear industry. His experience includes the oversight, regulation, and inspection of management, operations, maintenance, and engineering activities at commercial nuclear facilities. His consulting experience includes cause analysis, problem resolution, corrective action effectiveness, readiness reviews, and project management. He has assisted troubled commercial facilities resolve significant safety concerns including development of strategies for long term improvement. Mr. Kellogg has extensive knowledge of NRC and DOE Quality Assurance standards and regulations. His corrective action experience includes problem identification, root cause analysis, developing solutions, and verifying action completeness and effectiveness.
Much of his focus is in the area of assessments and performance improvements. Mr. Kellogg has extensive knowledge of Quality Assurance and corrective action processes, including identification, cause determination, corrective action plans, closure, and action effectiveness. He mentored management and operations at a uranium conversion facility to allow plant re-start following a Uranium Hexafluoride release, conducting audits of operations and establishing a conduct of operations program. He has conducted reviews of safety basis documents for various facilities and supported the re-certification of the DOE Office for Integrated Safety Management. He provided assistance to Fluor Fernald’s Waste Management program at the Fernald site where, as Project Engineer for Low-Level Waste, he was responsible for readiness review preparation, assessments, problem resolution, corrective actions, and action effectiveness verification. He assisted with readiness reviews and assessments including the determination of programmatic compliance and performance-based aspects of waste activities. He reviewed work plans, process controls, and procedures and their implementation for packaging, storage, and shipping activities. Mr. Kellogg conducted technical reviews and assessments of material sampling, waste characterization, packaging, storage, and shipping of low-level waste. This included the review of manuals, plans, and procedures and their implementation. He performed assessments of non-conformances and corrective actions, and verified completeness and technical adequacy of actions taken to resolve issues. He was also responsible for verification of corrective actions and tracking actions to completion. Mr. Kellogg directed the routine and non-routine inspection activities at several commercial nuclear plants for the NRC.
Mr. Kellogg is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and earned an M.B.A. from Georgia State University.