BIO:
Andrew graduated from Georgia Tech in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering (NRE) with highest honors and is from Johns Creek, GA. In his undergraduate career, Andrew worked on designing integrated fuel burnable absorbers (IFBA) for the I2S reactor. He has also been heavily involved with the Georgia Tech ANS Student Section, serving as the Publicity Chair for one year and the President for the following two years. Andrew has served as a team leader and instructor for the GT freshmen seminar course for NRE students. His professional experience includes participation in the Radiochemistry Fuel Cycle Summer School at UNLV, an internship with a core design team at Areva, and a summer student program in nuclear forensics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests include reactor modeling for nuclear forensics and nonproliferation applications.
RESEARCH:
Andrew is currently researching isotopic distributions in BR3, a Belgian research and training reactor, for his Master’s thesis project. He is performing a sensitivity study of a pin’s location within an assembly, which will involve many simulations and propagation of uncertainty throughout the models. He has performed an analysis of axial distributions of isotope ratios and their sensitivity to different reactor conditions, including fuel enrichment, moderator properties, and power levels.