Dr. Tracy Stover
Principal Engineer
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC

Abstract

The discipline of nuclear safety assesses a nuclear facility and/or process for hazards, determines the consequences of abnormal incidents, and establishes controls to prevent or mitigate those hazards and consequences. Department of Energy standards and orders provide a regulatory structure and some guidance.  The practice is complex even for an existing facility or process. Unique technical challenges arise when nuclear safety must be applied for a facility that is still in the design phase. Nuclear safety is presented within this context using the new Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility as an example.

Biography

Dr. Tracy Stover is currently a principal engineer for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC and acting manager of the criticality safety group for the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility. Formerly he was the lead of the criticality safety group for H-Canyon, the nation’s only remaining industrial scale radiochemical separations facility. He has also supported work for the deployment of the Mobile Plutonium Facility, decommission of the Portsmouth enrichment plant, multiple surplus plutonium storage and disposition programs, and computational program validation. Prior to Savannah River, Dr. Stover worked with Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC as a reactor core designer and spent fuel pool engineer. Dr. Stover holds a B.S. in physics from Murray State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University. He also holds professional engineering licenses in North and South Carolina and is a member of a several national committees through the American Nuclear Society.

Thursday, September 16. 2021
4:00 pm seminar

Hybrid Option (Speaker is remote)

Zoom (link upon request)
or
Room 1202 Burlington Labs
(Refreshments)