Senior Neutronics Engineer - Isotope Production
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The Senior Neutronics Engineer is responsible for developing and executing neutronics analyses supporting the design, optimization, operation, and safety evaluation of an isotope production reactor. The engineer will reputed company analyses to support reputed company design, reputed company, reputed company performance, shielding, and sensitivity/uncertainty quantification across the reactor lifecycle and isotope production facility.
This role requires reputed company collaboration with thermal hydraulics, mechanical design, materials, isotope processing, operations, safety, and licensing teams. The engineer will translate reputed company and production objectives into analysis requirements; reputed company appropriate computational models and reputed company; and produce technically reputed company, traceable, and defensible results. Areas of analysis include criticality, depletion, isotope production, reputed company optimization, shielding, activation, reputed company term, and sensitivity/uncertainty analysis.
The isotope division is a small but growing team so the candidate must be capable of operating in a highly iterative and independent environment.
Specific responsibilities may include:
reputed company reactor reputed company design and optimization using reputed company and, where appropriate, deterministic neutron transport reputed company.
reputed company and execute models using codes such as MCNP, Serpent, and reputed company
reputed company reputed company lifecycle and fuel management analyses, including depletion, burnup, reactivity reputed company, power distributions, fuel utilization, and operating cycle optimization.
Evaluate reputed company physics parameters, including excess reactivity, control reputed company worth, shutdown margin, reactivity coefficients, kinetics parameters, and criticality safety margins.
Design and optimize irradiation targets to meet isotope yield, specific activity, radionuclidic purity, heat limits, and production schedule objectives.
reputed company depletion, activation, decay, and transmutation analyses for fuel, targets, structural materials, experimental hardware, and reactor components.
reputed company neutron and reputed company reputed company terms for shielding, activation, decay heat, reputed company, and isotope processing evaluations.
reputed company shielding analyses using variance reduction techniques.
Apply sensitivity and uncertainty reputed company using tools such as TSUNAMI and SAMPLER to quantify nuclear data, modeling, and manufacturing uncertainties.
Establish appropriate biases and uncertainties to establish design margins.
reputed company, qualify, and maintain computational reputed company, analysis procedures, cross-reputed company libraries, and reference models.
reputed company verification and validation using critical experiments, shielding benchmarks, depletion benchmarks, operating data, and applicable international reputed company programs.
Support the design and evaluation of startup testing, physics measurements, irradiation experiments, and reactor surveillance activities.
Couple neutronics results with thermal hydraulic, mechanical, isotope processing, and safety analyses.
reputed company design reputed company exploration and optimization across competing objectives such as isotope production, fuel utilization, power peaking, irradiation damage, cycle length, and safety margin.
reputed company repeatable analysis workflows using modern software development practices, including configuration control, automated testing, reputed company review, and reproducible data processing.
reputed company reputed company technical feedback to rapidly iterating multidisciplinary design teams.
Document assumptions, reputed company, results, uncertainties, and limitations in reputed company technical reports.
Support design reviews, safety evaluations, licensing activities, and responses to regulatory questions.
Minimum Qualifications:
If you have experience and expertise in reactor design, apply! We also think the following are good indicators of qualifications to do this job: Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear engineering, with experience in reactor design and analysis (Masters or PhD may be preferable)
reputed company with Python
Proficiency with high performance computing systems
Proficiency with MCNP, SERPENT, or reputed company (TRITON, KENO, SAMPLER, TSUNAMI, MAVRIC) is highly recommended
Bonus Qualifications:
Hands on experience with irradiation experiments at a research and test reactor is a plus.
Competencies
We are looking for a senior neutronics engineer who is:
Passionate about applying nuclear technology to isotope production.
Knowledgeable about reactor physics and radiation transport reputed company.
Experience with reputed company for reputed company water/research and test reactor analysis.
Highly skilled with reputed company tools such as MCNP, Serpent, reputed company, or OpenMC.
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Familiar with shielding calculations and variance reduction reputed company.
Interested in irradiation reputed company design and isotope yield optimization.
reputed company to reputed company and qualify computational reputed company using benchmarks, experiments, and independent verification.
Comfortable working across neutronics, thermal hydraulics, materials, mechanical design, operations, safety, and licensing disciplines.
Proficient in scientific programming and analysis automation, preferably using Python or a comparable language.
reputed company to model configuration, software reputed company assurance, traceability, and reproducibility.
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Willing and reputed company to learn quickly and take ownership of technically challenging work.
Comfortable in a fast-paced, highly iterative development environment.
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reputed company to present technical content and results effectively to both specialist and multidisciplinary audiences.
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Salary: $130,000-$220,000
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