Bio
Roberto Sanabria is a US ITER Project Structural Engineer working on the analysis and design of supports for piping and mechanical equipment in various systems, including vacuum, ICH and ECH transmission lines and others. His work includes providing documentation in support of hardware procurement activities and testing as well as reviewing these and other documents when authored by others, including subcontractors. Roberto joined the US ITER project in 2011.
His work encompasses over 40 years of design and engineering accomplishments implementing structural and seismic analysis methods with advanced techniques, including finite element analysis. Applications in nuclear environments ranged from NRC-regulated sites under construction to operating "hot" radioactive plants for modification and retrofit work during outages.
He has conducted thousands of physical inspections for construction confirmation of nuclear safety related pipe supports that included monitoring movements during cold hydro and hot functional testing.
His work experience in DOE sites includes assignments at Los Alamos, New Mexico; Savannah River, South Carolina; remediation work at the Hanford site, in Washington State, and work since 2006 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. At ORNL, his past projects included the Cold Neutron Source at HFIR, instrument caves at various neutron lines in the Spallation Neutron Source, and demolition inspections at Y-12.
Other work includes hot-plate ductwork supports for large air pollution controls at Alstom, in Knoxville, pipe supports for petrochemical facilities with Raytheon, in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico and many other rewarding assignments too numerous to list here.
He has a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst. He is a Life Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and is also a Member of the American Nuclear Society. He is registered as a professional engineer in the states of Tennessee and New York.
Professional Experience
See curriculum vitae, attached
(a bit outdated)
Education
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.S.C.E., 1978
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, B.S.C.E. (no degree)
Professional Service
Professional Engineer, Tennessee, 21248 (1990); New York, 071844 (1994)
Professional Affiliations
American Society of Civil Engineers, Member since 1978
American Nuclear Society, Member since 2020