Michael Eastburn

Senior Nuclear Criticality Safety Engineer

Michael graduated from the University of Missouri - Rolla with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.  He holds a Master of Science degree in Physics and a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering also from UMR.  Michael has completed Nuclear Criticality Safety Short Courses from the University of Tennessee and the University of New Mexico.  Michael has over twenty years of experience in Criticality Safety and Nuclear Engineering.

RELEVANT  EXPERIENCE:

 Paschal Solutions, Inc.

 SENIOR Criticality Safety Specialist

• Performed nuclear criticality safety evaluations in support of operations at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Navarro Research and Engineering

SENIOR Criticality Safety Specialist

• Performed nuclear criticality safety evaluations in support of the Higher Assay Upgrade Project at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

• Performed nuclear criticality safety evaluations in support of the Transfer and Shipping Project at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

 ABB Combustion Engineering, Inc.

Criticality Safety Specialist

• Performed criticality evaluations of new or modified equipment, processes and procedures

• Responsible for verification that equipment, processes and procedures satisfy the criticality criteria of the Special Nuclear Materials license.

• Developed nuclear criticality safety related training.

• Participated in HAZOP and root-cause evaluations.

• Performed audits and inspections of plant operations, equipment and material storage to determine if license conditions and criticality safety limits are being met.

Entergy Operations

Senior Nuclear Engineeer

• Used diffusion and Monte Carlo codes to perform criticality analyses of spent and fresh fuel storage racks, including the effect of Boraflex gaps.

• Modified the Oak Ridge SCALE 4 Criticality Safety Analysis Sequences (CSAS) codes for installation on an IBM RISC 6000 workstation.

• Developed and installed modifications to EPRI NODE-P nodal code for use in physics calculations.

• Developed FORTRAN coding which calculated boundary conditions for Combustion Engineering's CECOR program and performs a computer check of the CECOR coefficient library.

• Developed a personal computer based system to run CECOR for startup and core follow of CE reactors.

• Participated in reactor startup testing

• Recipient Entergy Peak Performer Award, 1991

• Recipient Entergy Corporate Cup Award, 1990

Nuclear Engineer

• Generated nuclear core physics constants for reactor startup and operation.

• Analyzed composition and heat production of spent fuel.

• Evaluated nuclear source designs.

• Developed several data handling codes that saved more than five man-days per reload

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