1. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• Over 30 years professional experience
• BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Professional Engineer status multiple states –
Colorado, Washington, California, Idaho

2. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 24 years U.S. and international project management and
consulting roles – power
generation, nuclear, industrial, Department of Defense
installations, national laboratories --
management, operations, program support –
operational safety program development and
assessments, power technology research and
development, plant operations performance
improvement assessments, plant modification and life
extension evaluations (advisory support to utilities on
funding decisions).

3. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• Experience working with a variety of government, power
industry, and utility customers – Duquesne Light
Company, Grand River Dam Authority, Public Service
Company of Colorado, Niagara Mohawk Power
Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric, Electric Power
Research Institute, Energoatom (Ukrainian national
nuclear power utility), U. S. Dept. of Energy, U.S. Naval
Reactors, U.S. Navy, NASA

4. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 9 years operational risk management consulting for US
DOE and U.S. Navy – project management – remote
office startup – sensitive customer interface – risk based
funding decision management tools, operational and
management program assessments, program
development – nuclear and industrial operations safety
management, facility operations
security/vulnerability, quality management systems (ISO
9000, etc.).

5. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 6 years international experience, project
management, consulting, nuclear safety projects in
Ukraine – for Ukrainian national nuclear power utility –
U.S. DOE funded

6. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 2 years consulting support to U.S. DOE assisting with
departmental decisions on funding for research and
business development support for emerging
environmental remediation technologies associated
with DOE laboratories – development and
implementation of stage / gate decision process and
performing “due diligence” assessments of
technologies and projects – included
commercialization viability and private funding
(e.g., venture capital) potential.

7. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 3 years project management and key technical support
on geothermal power generation technology research
and development projects.

8. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 9 years experience fossil fuel and nuclear power plant
engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC).
– Lead engineer for design and procurement of critical power cycle and
balance of plant systems for 300 - 500 MW coal fired power plants.
– Lead engineer for detailed Best Available Control Technology (BACT)
study for permitting 500 MW coal fired power plant.
– Lead engineer for engineering and procurement of $80 million state-
of-the-art dry scrubber air quality control system for 500 MW coal
fired power plant.
– Construction engineer during completion of advanced concept 300
MW High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR) nuclear power
plant – responsible for completion of critical systems.
– Construction engineer on 500 MW coal fired power plant project.
– O&M engineering support and EPC for facility modifications for
operating nuclear power plants and government nuclear facilities.

9. Robert Babione Experience Overview
• 4 years experience – detailed reliability, availability, and
maintainability (RAM) and related technology assessment and
life cycle cost studies – project management and key project
roles, direct consulting to utilities and EPRI – experience with
NERC GADS.
– Advanced and current technology combined cycle gas turbine systems
including assessment of advanced once-through HRSG design and
component level O&M / outage data assessment of CCGT power
installations throughout US.
– Advanced solar power systems (NASA).
– Fossil fuel power plant performance improvement and life extension
evaluations.
– Advanced natural gas fuel cell power generation systems.
– Advanced compressed air energy storage systems utilizing caverns
(power generation load leveling).
– Development and refinement of the UNIRAM power plant RAM
modeling software (EPRI).