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Nuclear Risk Engineering -- applying Secured Environment's technology

SMART innovator Eddie Leung of Secured Environment will be setting up a degree program in Hong Kong on nuclear risk engineering and give a seminar on pollutant valuation.  A description of that Seminar is below.

 

Go, Eddie!
Cheers,
Sue

 

 Technical Seminar

 

Responding to Nuclear Releases:

Evaluating the Consequences and Trade-Offs of Alternative Actions

 

Speaker: Mr. Eddie Leung, CEO and Founder of Secured Environment

Date & Time: 7 September 2011, 10:30am

Venue: CSE Conference Room

 

Abstract:

In Japan, the emergency response team at the Fukushima Nuclear Station responded to rising temperatures by dumping sea water (later fresh water) onto the reactors in an attempt to cool them down.  The IAEA reported that as of May 13, 2011, TEPCO had poured about 100 million liters of water onto the reactors in an attempt to prevent a meltdown. 

 

What are the consequences of these actions?

â    If we assume that the costs of properly capturing, processing, and disposing of the added water (coolant) are about $5 per liter, then the costs associated with disposing of the wastewater total about $500 million.

â    Furthermore, the dumping of sea water onto the reactors caused irreversible damage to the reactors, rendering them useless for future power generation, thereby foisting huge costs upon the nuclear station’s owners and investors.

â    Finally, the dumping of sea water onto the reactors caused steam and water to spread radioactivity to air, land, and sea, thereby inflicting enormous social costs upon the region’s economy.

Environmental strategic planners and radiation officers have wrestled with how best to respond to nuclear emergencies to stop uncontrolled criticality in reactors.  Mr. Leung and his team of Silicon Valley-based scientists at Secured Environment have developed a new approach to critical decision-making by using a pollutant valuation methodology, which was featured in the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen. 

Mr. Leung will show how Secured Environment’s Emissions Accounting Technology can be used to help energy utility executives make informed emergency-response decisions by using (1) company-specific data, (2) industry pricing, and (3) real-time dynamic environmental data to evaluate the costs of alternative actions.  The methodology captures short-term vs. long-term trade-offs, as well as private (company) vs. social (environmental) trade-offs.  Mr. Leung will also show how the technology can be used to calculate asset values of impaired, chemically damaged, and radioactive inventories.

 

Speaker’s Short Biography:

      

Mr. Eddie Leung is CEO and Founder of Secured Environment, a Silicon Valley-based environmental economic consulting company founded in 2001, serving the Alternative Energy, Clean Tech and Investment industries.  Prior to founding Secured Environment, Mr. Leung led the global environmental strategies in General Electric Company where he applied his creative technical skills to pursuing cleaner and more sustainable business opportunities by leveraging GE’s combined resources.  He received three General Manager Awards and a GE Invention Award during his GE career.

 

 

GE Experience – Energy

  • 1997 to 2000   General Manager, Environmental Services/Structural Finance Supports                             GE Industrial Control Systems
  • 1995 to 1997   Manager, Global Strategic Planning and GE Environmental Representative                       to Japan Nuclear Fuel, Inc. (JV between GE and Hitachi/Toshiba)

                        GE Nuclear Energy

  • 1991 to 1995   Executive Management Staff, Environmental Health Safety & Radiation                            Safety Officer

                        GE Nuclear Energy

  • 1984 to 1991   Manager, Environmental Health Safety, (Western Region Remediation)

                        GE Semiconductor/Intersil, Inc.

  • 1979 to 1984   Project Manager/Industrial Hygienist                       

                        GE Electronics Laboratory

Mr. Leung is recognized as an Expert in Energy Supply Chain Management and Energy Efficiency Evaluation.  His invention, a revolutionary emissions measurement software, Emissions Accounting, was voted the best green technology in COP 15‘s Bright Green Event in Copenhagen 2009. 

Mr. Leung received an M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences from Hunter College, City University of New York and a B.S. in Biology from Pace University, New York.  He is a graduate of GE Executive Management Training (Asia-focus) in Tokyo, as well as the GE Financial Management and Six Sigma programs.

 

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