- Non-Traditional Uranium Sourcing
- USL will identify populations of natural and enriched uranium requiring
complex technical, business, and processing capabilities to bring to market.
- Develop, fund, acquire, manage and market such projects
Inventory Management Services
- Collaborate with producers and end users of NU and EUP to optimize
the use and value of such inventories through the fuel cycle.
- Manage transactions such as loans, leases, and exchanges.
- Facilitate supplier sales of NU and EUP
- Facilitate end user purchases of NU and EUP.
Uranium Management Consulting Services
- Consult in the management of uranium inventories throughout the fuel cycle
- Inventory planning, risk analysis, NU and EUP acquisition.
- Resource Optimization, transaction management and contracting.
- Development of new business opportunities including: analysis,
due diligence, modeling, negotiation, and contracting.
Rick Patterson is the Technical Managing Director of the Uranium Solutions Company. Mr. Patterson has over thirty-seven years of experience in the nuclear industry and has expert knowledge in the transportation and processing of nuclear materials including (but not limited to) the complexities of using non-standard and out-of-specification forms of uranium. During his tenure with the General Electric Company, Mr. Patterson spent thirty-one years in managerial and technical assignments in all phases of Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, including a significant period as Manager of Fuel Fabrication for the Nuclear Manufacturing Plant in Wilmington, North Carolina. Throughout his GE career, Mr. Patterson has led multifunctional and international teams to significant success in yield improvement, cycle time/inventory reduction, and increases in productivity. He has extensive experience in development and implementation of manufacturing processes and the scheduling and logistics of fuel manufacturing, including planning and scheduling complex international material flows.
Since retiring from General Electric in 2003, Mr. Patterson has provided consulting services to the nuclear industry in the areas of international logistics, project planning and scheduling. He has managed numerous major projects to successfully recover and bring to market non-traditional sources of enriched uranium. This experience includes the processing of off-spec uranium materials and coordination of the evaluation and transport of scrap/surplus material for recovery.
Mr. Patterson graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Engineering and is a graduate of the General Electric Manufacturing Management Program and GE’s Management Development Course. |
Tony Schillmoller is the Commercial Managing Director for the Uranium Solutions Company. Mr. Schillmoller has been professionally affiliated with the General Electric Company for thirty-eight years, over thirty-six of which were in the nuclear industry. During his extended career with General Electric, Mr. Schillmoller held a broad range of positions in the Nuclear Fuel Business: Master Scheduler, Manager of Materials Systems, Manager of Production Planning and Control, Manager of Procurement and Contracting, and Senior Manager of Uranium Supply and Business Development. Mr. Schillmoller is widely known in the nuclear fuel cycle industry, with acknowledged expertise in enriched uranium planning, supply and contracting.
Mr. Schillmoller has been a leading contributor in development of many of the nuclear industry’s best practices, including concepts in inventory and delivery management, and the use of non-traditional uranium sources. While at GE, he was responsible for the planning, delivery and oversight of enriched and natural uranium inventories with a current market value exceeding $2 billion per year. Mr. Schillmoller identified and completed the preliminary business development and due diligence for the GE licensing of the Silex Enrichment process. Since the GE licensing of the technology, he has been a key contributor to developing the commercial and production strategy for introduction of this third-generation enrichment technology.
Mr. Schillmoller earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from California State Polytechnic University and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Arizona State University. He is a graduate of the General Electric Manufacturing Management Program and Management Development Course. Additionally, Mr. Schillmoller holds a DOE/NRC Top Secret “Q” Clearance. |
