Position Description: The Senior Probabilistic Safety Analysis Engineer will review and provide critical comments and recommendations on RELAP and MELCOR vendor-related products.
Responsibilities:
Develop, maintain and update SMR-300 RELAP and MELCOR base decks to ensure they reflect plant design changes;
Prepare and review design deliverables and presentations;
Support development of engineering and licensing documentation;
Mentor and lead other PSA engineers on the techniques and requirements associated with evaluating the plant and containment response;
Lead and execute key severe accident and containment response; and
Provide mentoring to other PSA team members on the development and use of RELAP and MELCOR.
Qualifications/Experience:
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Nuclear Engineering, Thermal Power Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or closely related field;
4 years of experience as a Thermohydraulic Analyst, or a related occupation;
Experience using thermal hydraulic and containment response codes (i.e. MELCOR);
Experience in commercial nuclear design or operation;
Experience conducting safety analysis of Pressurized Water-type reactors (PWR);
Experience performing transient and accident analyses using system thermal hydraulic codes;
Experience performing radiological consequences analyses using RADTRAD and RASCAL;
Experience conducting computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses; and
Experience using: computer codes for NPP model development and risk quantification (i.e. CAFTA, SAPHIRE, RiskSpectrum, or equivalent).
Must be eligible to work in accordance with DOE 10 CFR section 810.