Advanced Reactor Irradiated Fuel Engineer

Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a Advanced Reactor Irradiated Fuel Engineer to work in our Reactor Project Engineering department. Our team works a 4x10 schedule located out of our Materials and Fuels Complex with every Friday off.

You will apply nuclear and mechanical engineering principles and methods to develop, test, and analyze nuclear equipment and systems used to handle and store irradiated nuclear fuel from advanced nuclear reactors. You will evaluate materials, equipment, and systems to define the most economical and safest means to defuel irradiate reactors, store irradiated fuel and dispose of non-fuel bearing wastes. You will support the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) efforts to deploy advanced reactor experiments at the Materials and Fuels Complex (MFC) and will report to the Reactor Project Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities Include :

• Work with designers, analysts, and customers to develop de-fueling, packaging, and handling requirements for irradiate fuel and associated irradiated materials.
• Select and widely apply advanced nuclear engineering design principles, theories, and concepts (which may include reactor fuel and packaging). Decompose project goals into defined and controlled design requirements.
• Use design methodologies, technologies, and processes which are best practice for the technical discipline to establish and validate that designs meets defined requirements.
• Document the design (controlled and approved models, drawings, specifications, design descriptions) to establish conformance with design requirements and applicable codes and standards.
• Establish testing, inspection, and quality requirements to ensure technical features important to design are achieved.
• Oversee or otherwise ensure that fabrication, construction, assembly, and procurement of relevant equipment are done following the design.
• May perform integrated analyses to ensure that storage, transportation, and disposal requirements and facility safety bases are met.
• Perform analysis and design tasks supporting program interactions with (experiment) sponsors, operations, and engineering organizations to ensure that project related operations are performed in a manner that is consistent with the facility authorization.
• Develop physics-based mathematical models of mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems to support and verify design.
• Perform analyses of irradiation fuels and materials.

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Benefits and Relocation

INL is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's mission in nuclear energy research, science, and national defense. With more than 5,800 scientists, researchers, and support staff, the laboratory works with national and international governments, universities and industry partners to discover new science and development technologies that underpin the nation's nuclear and renewable energy, national security, and environmental missions.

Selective Service Requirements To be eligible for employment at INL males born after December 31, 1959 must have registered with the Selective Service System (SSS).

Salary : $229,284