Yogesh Parmar
Baden, Switzerland, Europe
Mr. Yogesh Parmar has worked in the nuclear industry since 1993 in key technical and management positions including as engineer, core designer, project manager, group lead, department head, and business area head.He has worked for a vendor/supplier (ABB Atom, now Westinghouse), utilities (Axpo and BKW), and a consulting engineering company (AF-Consult, now AFRY). Mr. Parmar can support diverse projects, with more than 30 years of proven experience in managing large international projects in the nuclear field. His fuel management experience has encompassed the entire nuclear fuel cycle: licensing, manufacturing, design, in-core fuel management, fuel performance, transportation, interim storage, and final storage. Other work scope managed by Mr. Parmar included design of facilities for nuclear waste management and storage, nuclear new build projects, owner’s and vendor’s engineering lead for nuclear new build organizations, and localization and other sourcing for nuclear new build projects.
He is currently performing price monitoring for a new build nuclear power plant in West Asia. As Project Manager, he leads a team of 25 experts focused on providing best value for construction materials and equipment available in the region.
Areas of Expertise
- Advanced reactor waste management
- Compatibility and mixed core evaluations
- Contract development
- Contract portfolio analysis
- Core components design, materials, and performance
- Core design
- Criticality analyses
- Cycle economics and fuel costs
- DCS System Manufacturing oversight
- Decommissioning strategies
- Deep Isolation
- Fuel cycle design
- Fuel department staffing and organization assessments
- Fuel Design & Manufacture
- Fuel design change reviews
- Fuel fabrication procurement
- Fuel Management
- Fuel manufacturing technical oversight
- Fuel materials and irradiation effects
- Fuel performance and reliability
- Fuel rod analyses
- Interim storage options analysis
- Licensing
- Licensing Analysis
- New fuel design reviews / LTA's / Accident Tolerant Fuel
- Nuclear facility site feasibility studies
- Operation & Performance
- Owner’s engineering support
- Purchasing/marketing strategies
- QA program implementing procedures
- Regulatory assistance and support
- Regulatory framework development
- Repository and recycling economics
- RFP and bid evaluations
- RFP and bid evaluations
- Safety analyses
- Security of supply studies
- SFP criticality analysis
- Site selection evaluation for interim storage, DGR, other disposal
- Spent fuel examinations
- Spent fuel storage options and economics
- Thermal-hydraulics analyses
- Waste acceptance criteria development
