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Idaho National Laboratory is seeking a Nuclear Engineer - Radiation Transport Analyst to join our Used Fuel Management team. Based out of our Research and Education Campus in Idaho Falls, Idaho, this role follows a 9x80 schedule, giving you every other Friday off. The department focuses on developing technologies for the safe handling, packaging, storage, transport, and disposal of the nation's spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste.

As a Nuclear Engineer - Radiation Transport Analyst, you will apply radiation transport principles to evaluate, characterize, and model nuclear designs, experimentation, and waste management. You will report to the Used Fuel Management Department Manager and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, following direction from mentors and team members. Responsibilities include computer modeling, report preparation, technical checks, presentations, and hands-on lab work. Projects include the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project.

You will gain extensive experience in spent fuel facilities, technologies, and management systems, and have opportunities to publish work and submit proposals.

Responsibilities Include:

• Apply nuclear engineering principles to design, develop, test, and analyze nuclear equipment and systems.
• Conduct research on new materials for radiation detection, nuclear fuels, and reactors.
• Perform studies on radiation detection, control of radioactive contaminants, and the nuclear fuel cycle, including economic uses and waste disposal.
• Address challenges related to safeguards and verification of fuel cycle nonproliferation measures.
• This position is part of the INL Nuclear Nexus.
• Develop experimental requirements or packaging and handling requirements for spent nuclear fuel.
• Apply advanced nuclear engineering design principles, theories, and concepts.
• Use best practices in design methodologies to develop and validate designs.
• Document designs to ensure conformance with requirements and standards.
• Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements.
• Ensure fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement align with design specifications.
• Perform integrated analyses to meet experimental, storage, transportation, disposal, and facility safety requirements.
• Defend analytical methods and results in reviews.
• Support project/program interactions with sponsors, operations, and engineering organizations.
• Develop and improve physics-based mathematical models and analysis methods.
• Prepare reports and peer-reviewed publications.
• Represent programs through technical presentations and at conferences.
• Participate in professional development activities.
• Perform analyses of irradiation experiments and conduct research supporting nuclear processes.
• Support transformational fuel qualification efforts.