Co Author: Alternate Pathways for Decommissioning and Strategic Trust Fund Management
Mr. Carignan has over thirty-five years of progressive and diverse nuclear experience from reactor operations and training to project management and decommissioning. He served six years in the Navy Nuclear Submarine program with a degree in Chemistry.
Mr. Carignan’s first experience in decommissioning was as the Operations Manager on the first U.S. large scale decommissioning: Shippingport Station Decommissioning Project. Since then, he has been involved in some aspect of many commercial and government decommissioning projects for the last 25 years both domestically and internationally. He has worked for General Electric, MAC Technical Services, Project Services Group, and TLG Services. Mr. Carignan also worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority, first as part of an oversight group to improve TVA’s overall nuclear performance after all the TVA nuclear plants were shut down due to management issues. While with TVA, he also developed their self-assessment program to improve operations performance and INPO readiness.
In January 2015, Mr. Carignan formed Carignan & Associates LLC to provide support services to the nuclear industry focusing on Decommissioning cost estimating, due diligence, Operational Readiness, and management support. His company has provided due diligence, planning, and cost estimating support for numerous projects including Nuclear Ship Savannah, SONGS, Humboldt Bay, Saxton, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, EDF, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as well as a number of confidential clients.