System Transients Analysis Engineer

TerraPower 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, TerraPower 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. TerraPower’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.” TerraPower 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. TerraPower 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. System Transients Analysis Engineer TerraPower, LLC. is hiring a highly capable and motivated System Transients Analysis Engineer who is responsible for analyses with application to the TerraPower sodium-cooled reactor program (Natrium). The candidate may also use software that combines control systems with thermal hydraulics for system or plant modeling. The candidate will interface and collaborate with the safety group, I&C group, and design group etc. Responsibilities Develop RELAP5-3D models for steady state and transient one-dimensional network hydraulic analyses. Develop plant level control strategy and component level controller. Perform calculations using first principles of heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics to support and validate analysis results. Perform analysis of reactor normal operations, upset events, emergency events and faulted events to establish design, service, and test loadings and limits. Perform analysis of plant wide transients for evaluation of operation narratives and design solutions. Perform multiscale and multidisciplinary control analyses involving the thermal hydraulics of sodium, molten salt, and non-condensable fluids. Integrate with other engineering groups performing aspects of component, system, fuel,…