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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. 

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