Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineer for UNF Recycling

SHINE Technologies; Janesville (WI); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Occasional travel

Job summary

SHINE Technologies is seeking a Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineer for our used nuclear fuel (UNF) Recycling product line. The role develops and applies nuclear safety analysis to demonstrate safety goals and regulator requirements from design through operation, including transient/accident analysis, dose analysis, and ISA activities.

The position emphasizes judgment over conservatism and requires communicating analysis results clearly to design teams, with hybrid work options and occasional

Qualifications

• Evidence of owning a safety analysis from method to regulator: has authored analyses that went into a licensing submittal or safety basis document and defended them in review.
• Demonstrated judgment on conservatism: has questioned a default assumption or margin in an analysis and found an approach that was as safe or safer and materially simpler, faster or less expensive.
• Ability to perform and check hand calculations from first principles, and to recognize when a code result is wrong.
• Demonstrated technical writing skills: analyses a regulator can follow.
• Knowledge of 10 CFR 70 integrated safety analysis requirements, or the equivalent under 10 CFR Part 50 or the DOE safety basis framework (10 CFR Part 830).
• Ability to critically evaluate information, and the confidence to ask questions when things do not make sense.
• BS degree in Nuclear Engineering or related discipline from an accredited institution.
• Five (5) years of experience in nuclear safety analysis; relevant graduate research or academic experience may be counted toward this requirement.

Responsibilities

• Perform system analyses of anticipated transients and postulated accidents to demonstrate that safety and licensing requirements are satisfied.
• Perform nuclear calculations to determine the total amount of material at risk as input into release calculations, using industry-standard codes such as MCNP and SCALE.
• Perform radiological and chemical dose calculations for normal and accidental releases.
• Lead or support Integrated Safety Analysis (ISA) activities including hazard evaluations (e.g., HAZOP, FMEA), process hazard analyses (PHA), and accident sequence development.
• Review Quality Classification Forms that determine whether equipment is credited in the safety analysis, and challenge classifications the analysis does not support.
• Own the safety analysis documentation for the Pilot facility, including dose release calculations, HAZOP and FMEA reports, and the ISA Summary or its equivalent.
• Perform hand calculations using first principles to support and validate analysis results.
• Perform code benchmarking and validation analyses to support code qualification and methodology development.

Skills

Safety analysis ownership

Judgment on conservatism

Hand calculations

Technical writing

Code benchmarking/validation

Regulatory knowledge (10 CFR 70/50/830

Critical evaluation

Licensing support

Education

BS in Nuclear Engineering or related discipline

Five years of nuclear safety analysis experience

Tools

MCNP

SCALE

Job description

SHINE Technologies is seeking a Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineer for our used nuclear fuel (UNF) Recycling product line. The role develops and applies nuclear safety analysis to demonstrate safety goals and regulator requirements from design through operation, including transient/accident analysis, dose analysis, and ISA activities.

The position emphasizes judgment over conservatism and requires communicating analysis results clearly to design teams, with hybrid work options and occasional