Tom Roberts
Principal Officer
POMO18 Consult LLC
Mr. Roberts' career summary spans over forty-eight years’ experience, starting with the construction of several US nuclear plant sites, then transitioning to management roles at three operating plants, involving both pressurized water and boiling water reactor technologies, and then in a post-retirement consulting capacity, providing engineering and technical support to dozens of nuclear facilities across the USA and advanced reactor developers.
He has held direct management responsibilities for: Project and construction management, Design Engineering, Nondestructive Examination, Welding & Materials Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Engineering Programs.
His involvement in nuclear industry related Codes and Standards development is diverse and includes the following:
- Current Co-Vice Chair of ASME Section XI Standards Committee
- Current Chair of the ASME XI Inquires Committee
- Current Chair of ASME Section XI Division 2 - Reliability Integrity Management (RIM)
- Current Member of ASME/JSME Task Group on System Based Codes
- Current Member of the Nuclear Energy Institute Codes and Standards Task Force
- Current Member of the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors "Nuclear Repair" (NR) Task Group
- Former member of the ASME Subcommittee on Nuclear Accreditation from 09/99 to 03/04.
- Former member of EPRI Material Reliability Program IIG Committee
- Former Chair of BWRVIP Task Group on Category C Dissimilar Welds Focus Group
- Former industry advisor to the EPRI NDE for Groundwater Protection Technical Advisory Committee
- Former member of EPRI Welding & Repair Technical Committee
PUBLICATIONS
- ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section XI, Division 2 (Reliability Integrity Management) A System Based Code – Stephens, Doctor, Roberts – EPRI NDE Conference 2019 Proceedings
- Development Of In-Service Inspection Rules For Liquid-Metal Cooled Reactors Using The System Based Code Concept - Takaya, Asayama, Yada, Roberts and Schaaf - Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology – July 2019
- Relating Measured Component Damage to Assessed Component Reliability in Reliability Integrity Management – Youngblood, Anselmi, Roberts - 17th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management & Asian Symposium on Risk Assessment and Management (PSAM17&ASRAM2024)
- Guidance for Implementation of Reliability Integrity Management (RIM) and Monitoring and NDE (MANDE) Expert Panels – EPRI Product ID 3002029268 – April 24, 2025