REEDY ENGINEERING - Key Persons
Bernard F. Langer Nuclear Codes and Standards Award, for outstanding technical contributions to the advancement of design, construction and quality assurance requirements for nuclear equipment and for unwavering dedication to the promotion of ASME nuclear codes and standards
Job Titles:
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control / Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Mr. Rick Swayne taught several courses in valve design and application for Anchor/Darling Valve Company between 1976 and 1980. He taught courses in preparing for ASME Accreditation Surveys and in nuclear material procurement several times between 1981 and the present. He has conducted at least 25 training courses in ASME Section XI inservice inspection since 1994, both under contract to ASME Professional Development and for Reedy Engineering. He has performed this training in public courses and in private classes for many U.S. and foreign nuclear power plant licensees. Mr. Swayne has trained hundreds of individuals in the ASME Section XI requirements, including dozens of NRC staff members. Mr. Swayne has been consistently rated by his students as excellent in his knowledge of the subject matter and good or excellent in other areas related to his presentation of inservice inspection course materials. Mr. Swayne has assisted NEK Krsko in development of their last two inservice inspection programs. He has also consulted for many U.S. nuclear licensees in application of their inservice inspection programs.
Professional Experience
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Member since 1975
ASME Vice President of Nuclear Codes and Standards, 2011-2014
Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards, Chair 2011-2014, Member since 2000
Boiler and Pressure Vessel Technical Oversight Management Committee, Member since 2003
Section II, Subcommittee on Material Specifications, 1984 - 1988
Section III Subgroup on Materials, Secretary 1979 - 1985
Joint Task Group on Toughness for Nuclear App's, 1979 - 1985
Section XI, Standards Committee on Nuclear Inservice Inspection, Vice Chair since 2005, Member since 1984
Subgroup on Repair/Replacement Activities, Chair 2003 - 2004, Member since 1988
Working Group on Design Reconciliation, Member since 1991
Task Group on Procurement Issues, 1992 - 1997
Working Group on Responsibilities and Program Requirements, 1990 - 1991
Working Group on Repair Welding, 1985 - 1990
Special Working Group on Editing and Review, Chairman from 1995, Member since 1982
Executive Committee, Member since 1994
Task Group on Erosion/Corrosion Evaluation, 1993 - 1994
Task Group on Leakage Issues, Chairman from 1993 - 1997
Subgroup on Nondestructive Examination, 1984 - 1988
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), 1979 - 1990
American Society of Metals (ASM), 1979 - 1985
Employment
1981 - present
REEDY ENGINEERING, INC. (Also Reedy Associates; Reedy, Herbert, Gibbons, and Associates; and R.F. Reedy, Inc.) Campbell, CA
Principal Consultant
Mr. Swayne has provided consulting services to utilities in the areas of inservice inspection, metallurgy, welding, fabrication, NDE, ASME and National Board Certification and Accreditation Surveys, construction and operations quality assurance, ASME Codes and Standards, and USNRC regulations. He is currently participating on ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Committees and in writing a commentary on changes in the ASME Code. Mr. Swayne has worked for the last four years in design and fabrication of spent fuel storage and transportation equipment, working for designers, fabricators, and utilities. He chaired an ASME Code Committee Task Group on Inservice Inspection of spent fuel storage and transportation equipment.
Mr. Swayne has worked extensively and effectively in reconciliation of changes in ASME Code and Design Specification requirements. In addition to his involvement on ASME Subcommittee XI, Mr. Swayne is providing recommendations and direction to utilities on ASME Code and regulatory issues that pertain to metallurgy, engineering, quality assurance, licensing, preservice and inservice inspection, and repair/replacement/modification programs in operating nuclear and nonnuclear power plants. Mr. Swayne's participation on ASME Subcommittees II, III, and XI has provided a background that has enabled him to effectively evaluate ASME Section XI inservice inspection, repair/replacement/modification, and quality assurance programs, for cost-effectiveness and Code and regulatory compliance. Mr. Swayne has delivered courses on Code reconciliation, procurement and applications of materials, and Section XI inservice inspection and repair/replacement/modification activities.
1980 - 1981
NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY, INC.
San Jose, CA
Senior Consultant
Mr. Swayne served as an ASME Code consultant to utilities, architect/engineers, and design engineers. His duties included internal quality assurance and training programs. He also participated in writing a commentary on ASME Code changes.
1975 - 1980
ANCHOR/DARLING VALVE COMPANY
Williamsport, PA and Hayward, CA
Quality Engineer, Staff Metallurgist & Welding Engineer, Quality Assurance Manager
Mr. Swayne's experience included metallurgical and welding engineering and quality assurance management. As a Quality Engineer, he was involved in project quality surveillance, nondestructive examination, and vendor auditing, both domestically and overseas. Mr. Swayne was qualified as a Lead Auditor in accordance with ANSI N45.2.23.
As Staff Metallurgist and Welding Engineer, he was responsible for overseeing corporate welding programs, material selection activities, and training, to ensure compliance with applicable Codes and Standards. Mr. Swayne taught courses to utilities and architect/engineers in valve design and application.
As Quality Assurance Manager, he guided the organization through a successful ASME Survey.
1970 - 1974
STRUCTURE PROBE, INC.
West Chester, PA and Metuchen, NJ
Laboratory Director
Mr. Swayne was a laboratory director and principal metallurgist reporting to the President. His duties included technical supervision of operations, materials research and development, material applications, and failure analysis. He coauthored a paper on diffusion of thin metallic coatings on ceramics.
Education
B.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Materials Option, University of Delaware, 1972
Job Titles:
- Registered Structural Engineer and Professional Engineer
Roger F. Reedy has extensive experience working on the design and construction of pressure vessels, piping, and nuclear power components. His experience includes design, analysis, fabrication, and erection of pressure vessels and piping components for petroleum, chemical, nuclear, fossil fuel, and other industries, including development and implementation of applicable quality systems. His background encompasses nuclear reactors and containment vessels, as well as pressure vessels and storage tanks for petroleum, chemical, and other energy industries. Mr. Reedy is an acknowledged expert in the construction of pressure vessels and nuclear components, including nuclear waste transportation casks and storage canisters, meeting the requirements of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section III, Divisions 1, 2 and 3, Section VIII, Divisions 1 and 2, and Sections I, II, V, IX, and XI, and piping to the requirements of ASME B31.1 and B31.3. He is also an expert in implementation of practical quality programs for designers, fabricators, installers, and owners of industrial equipment and plants.
Prior to establishing himself as a consultant, Mr. Reedy worked at Chicago Bridge and Iron Company. While at CBI, he was responsible for the Code design and analysis of Section VIII pressure vessels, multilayer vessels (up to 16 in. thick), nuclear containment vessels, and nuclear reactor vessels. He has designed hundreds of pressure vessels, including some of the first heavy-wall pressure vessels to meet the provisions of the ASME Section VIII, Division 2, Pressure Vessel Code. Subsequent to leaving CBI, he has been involved in licensing, engineering reviews, welding evaluations, quality program evaluation and implementation, project coordination, and ASME Code training of personnel. He has testified as an expert witness in litigations and before regulatory groups on topics such as design criteria, engineering analysis, fabrication techniques, material and welding applications, material control, and construction practices. He has also provided expert witness testimony in the areas of quality control/quality assurance, construction practices, design, welding and application of ASME Codes and Standards for many technical litigation proceedings.
For a number of years, Mr. Reedy has been writing a summary of all changes made to the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, and B31.1 and B31.3 Piping Codes as they are published in each Addenda. This information is maintained in a computer database, RA-search, which identifies changes to the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and the Piping Codes as far back as 1952. RA-search also contains the full text of all ASME Code Interpretations published since 1977, in the searchable data base. Also on the database is a history of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code from 1914 (1st edition of the code) to 1952.
Mr. Reedy has served on ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Committees for many years in development of Code design, construction, and quality criteria for pressure retaining components. He recently served as chairman of the ASME Section III Committee for Nuclear Power Plant Components, and as a member of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Main Committee. He was also a member of the ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards. He belongs to the N626.3 Committee, that developed the rules concerning duties and responsibilities of engineers designing ASME Code components for nuclear power plants.
Mr. Reedy was one of the founding members of the ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Division, which is devoted to the cause of advancing knowledge and techniques for Code design and construction of pressure retaining equipment, and was Chairman of the Division. This Division is now one of the largest in ASME.
Mr. Reedy is a registered Structural Engineer and Professional Engineer. He is a recipient of the ASME Bernard F. Langer Award, the ASME Centennial Medal, and is a Life Fellow of ASME. Recently, Mr. Reedy was made an Honorary Member of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Main Committee.
Mr. Reedy is a registered Structural Engineer and Professional Engineer. He is a recipient of the ASME Bernard F. Langer Award, the ASME Centennial Medal, and is a Life Fellow of ASME. Recently, Mr. Reedy was made an Honorary Member of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Main Committee.
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND