MCFR Nuclear Safety Lead

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MCFR Nuclear Safety Lead

LOCATION:

Bellevue, Washington, USA

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.”

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.

Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, Terra Power has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

MCFR Nuclear Safety Lead:

The Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) is slated to be the first ever liquid-fueled fast-spectrum reactor built and operated. MCRE is planned to be built at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and, as such, requires authorization from the Department of Energy (DOE) to operate. The MCRE safety case is working towards the development of a Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA) to support the next phase of the authorization process.

The MCRE project is also intended to increase confidence around the fundamental phenomena that contribute to the safety case of the commercial Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR).

The MCFR Nuclear Safety Lead will work across the design and testing team to mature the MCRE safety case and develop the MCFR commercial safety case. Specifically, this will require:

• Continued refinement of risk-informed performance-based (RIPB) safety case.

• Understanding DOE authorization & NRC licensing requirements and development of work along with documentation to support meeting them.

• Documentation of Systems, Structures, or Components (SSCs) safety classification.

• Overseeing and performing transient analysis of Safety Basis Events (SBEs) as needed.

• Novel methodology development to support safety analyses.

The MCFR Nuclear Safety Lead receives administrative and technical supervision from the Nuclear Safety Discipline Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Work with an interdisciplinary team of engineers to establish SSC functional, performance, safety, and quality requirements as well as support the overall design.

• Develop regulatory engagement topics for discussion with the DOE.

• Support NRC interactions where MCRE contributes to MCFR regulatory engagement.

• Develop and document novel safety analysis methodologies.

• Work with analysts to follow and implement software quality assurance into nuclear safety computer codes.

• Collaborate with safety verification and validation engineers to develop assessment bases (benchmark, identify applicable tests, etc.) and assess the evaluation model.

• Develop schedules and milestones to meet safety deliverables in support of DOE authorization.

• Develop Technical Safety Requirements…