Experience

Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Senior Nuclear Engineer

  • Jan 2016 - Present


Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Research Assistant

  • Aug 2012 - Dec 2015

  About My Research: During the lifetime of a nuclear reactor, the core and its surrounding materials will experience a wide range of temperatures which significantly impact the probabilities of certain neutron interactions (fission, capture, scattering, etc.). These probabilities are referred to in the nuclear community as “cross sections” and are used as inputs for computer simulations. In the case of feedback, the temperatures are not always known a priori, so a large amount of cross section… Show more About My Research: During the lifetime of a nuclear reactor, the core and its surrounding materials will experience a wide range of temperatures which significantly impact the probabilities of certain neutron interactions (fission, capture, scattering, etc.). These probabilities are referred to in the nuclear community as “cross sections” and are used as inputs for computer simulations. In the case of feedback, the temperatures are not always known a priori, so a large amount of cross section data are necessary to encompass the entire energy and temperature range a neutron may experience in a problem. In recent years, methods have been developed to reduce data storage by only storing zero-temperature cross section data and then using functional expansions to attain the cross section at the desired temperature “on-the-fly” during the random walk of the neutron in the Monte Carlo process. These methods, however, fail for certain reactor materials at low energies because of the complicated nature of chemical and binding effects. My thesis work is focused on developing methods to temperature-correct the thermal scattering cross section “on-the-fly” for incorporation into current online Monte Carlo methods. Show less About My Research: During the lifetime of a nuclear reactor, the core and its surrounding materials will experience a wide range of temperatures which significantly impact the probabilities of certain neutron interactions (fission, capture, scattering, etc.). These probabilities are referred to in the nuclear community as “cross sections” and are used as inputs for computer simulations. In the case of feedback, the temperatures are not always known a priori, so a large amount of cross section… Show more About My Research: During the lifetime of a nuclear reactor, the core and its surrounding materials will experience a wide range of temperatures which significantly impact the probabilities of certain neutron interactions (fission, capture, scattering, etc.). These probabilities are referred to in the nuclear community as “cross sections” and are used as inputs for computer simulations. In the case of feedback, the temperatures are not always known a priori, so a large amount of cross section data are necessary to encompass the entire energy and temperature range a neutron may experience in a problem. In recent years, methods have been developed to reduce data storage by only storing zero-temperature cross section data and then using functional expansions to attain the cross section at the desired temperature “on-the-fly” during the random walk of the neutron in the Monte Carlo process. These methods, however, fail for certain reactor materials at low energies because of the complicated nature of chemical and binding effects. My thesis work is focused on developing methods to temperature-correct the thermal scattering cross section “on-the-fly” for incorporation into current online Monte Carlo methods. Show less



University of Michigan

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Student Research Assistant

  • May 2010 - Aug 2012

  Performing sensitivity calculations for the Fort St. Vrain Very High Temperature Reactor for core neutronic evaluation. Performing sensitivity calculations for the Fort St. Vrain Very High Temperature Reactor for core neutronic evaluation.

• Undergraduate Researcher - Gaerttner Laboratory

  • Sep 2007 - Apr 2009

  Worked with a Plutonium-Beryllium source to design and implement a neutron monitoring system for the RPI Linear Accelerator; Experimentation and analysis of false capture in high energy spectrum using a sodium iodide/boron carbine detector. Worked with a Plutonium-Beryllium source to design and implement a neutron monitoring system for the RPI Linear Accelerator; Experimentation and analysis of false capture in high energy spectrum using a sodium iodide/boron carbine detector.



URS

• United States

• Nuclear Technical Intern III

  • Dec 2007 - Aug 2008

  Edited and revised documents for the ESBWR Project for General Electric – Hitachi in Wilmington, N.C.; Edited Loss-of-Coolant Accident and Fuel Handling Accident proposals for LaSalle County Station reactor in Illinois; Calculated and compiled total emission energies in the RadDecay program for the pH Suppression Pool proposal for LaSalle County Station in Illinois. Edited and revised documents for the ESBWR Project for General Electric – Hitachi in Wilmington, N.C.; Edited Loss-of-Coolant Accident and Fuel Handling Accident proposals for LaSalle County Station reactor in Illinois; Calculated and compiled total emission energies in the RadDecay program for the pH Suppression Pool proposal for LaSalle County Station in Illinois.



HORIBA Jobin Yvon, Inc.

• United States
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Computer Software Tester

  • May 2006 - Aug 2007

  Worked in the Optical Spectroscopy Division testing the FluorEssence software used for scientific laboratory instrumentation. Worked in the Optical Spectroscopy Division testing the FluorEssence software used for scientific laboratory instrumentation.