Mechanical Engineer - (Richland, WA)

Mechanical Engineer (Richland WA). Calculate the fuel rod design margin for a given neutronic core design using in-house analysis fuel rod thermal-mechanical analysis codes. Document the analyses and prepare a licensing report for the utility customer for each reactor cycle. Maintain codes and create automation scripts. Perform data reduction of fuel performance data taken during post-irradiation examinations as well as as-built data coming from manufacturing. Prepare benchmarking studies with fuel performance codes to compare predictions to post-irradiation data for validation of codes. Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Applied Physics, Radiation Science or similar plus knowledge of fuel rod design and performance, development of thermal-mechanical fuel rod performance codes, Monte Carlo/Wilks statistical methods and neutronic core design output.