– Edited By Chris Reed –
Westinghouse Electric Company announced on Friday the appointment of Tom Geer as vice president, Fuel Engineering, for the company's Nuclear Fuel business.
In this role, he will be responsible for overseeing Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) and Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel hardware design, development and testing, as well as the technology development functions supporting nuclear physics, thermal hydraulic and fuel performance methods for PWR and BWR fuel and reload core designs. He will be located inCranberry Township, Pennsylvania (USA).
Mr. Geer joins Westinghouse from Duke Energy, where he was vice president of Nuclear Engineering. He has more than 28 years of management and engineering experience. While at Duke, he was a member of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Fuel Reliability Program Executive Committee and the Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) Turkey Point corporate nuclear review board, chaired the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Advisory Council, and served on the University of Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department advisory board.
He also spent eight years supporting the prime contractor on two different U.S. Department of Energy projects while at Duke Engineering. He holds both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a certified Professional Engineer in North Carolina and South Carolina.