Benoit Dionne, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Collaborated across the project management organization, engineering teams across multiple organizations, and leadership, to improve high-level strategic alignment and resolve complex technical issues- Promoted to Technical Fellows due to a proven track record of technical guidance and vision, creative problem-solving, and mentorship- Planned and.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Built the Natrium Integrated Plant Analysis team from the ground up in collaboration with resource managers and technical leads, growing from 10 to 60+ in about two years, and led the team to execute a detailed work plan aligned with the project objectives for the Construction Permit Application- Oversaw all technical execution for the Natrium Integrated.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Supported the transition to a central engineering organization and expanded management responsibilities from one to all nine projects, coordinating safety and licensing support while also growing the team from four to 21 by 2021- Helped resolve complex technical issues for Nuclear Safety & Licensing across all project and participated in major design.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Promoted to oversee a team of three nuclear safety engineers performing all plant transient and accident analyses in addition to assuming partial Reactor Safety and Plant Control (RSPC) Director responsibilities

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Developed neutronics codes and methods and performed analyses of sodium fast reactors and gas-cooled thermal reactor

Lemont, Illinois, United States

- Directed a multidisciplinary, matrixed team of up to 15 engineers on complex HEU-to-LEU conversion projects in the U.S., Belgium, France, and Italy- Fostered productive relationships with international partners and regulators while also directing resource planning and leading software & methodology development - Improved documentation of reactor software.

Lemont, Illinois, United States

- Planned and coordinated conversion neutronics analysis activities for two US university research reactors and one Belgian test reactor- Developed neutronics codes and methods and performed analyses in support of U.S. and Europeans research and test reactors conversion- Developed technical basis for thermal and corrosion properties for Belgian test.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

- Played a leading role in the design and safety analyses to successfully convert the university training reactor from highly enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU), including Monte Carlo simulation for core neutronics and spent fuel criticality safety- Monte Carlo simulation of dose profiles in tissue and lung in a low field MRI as part of.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Developed codes to perform coupled neutronics/thermal-hydraulics analyses for the design of the proposed Canadian Neutron Facility.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Two summer internships (1999 and 2000) working on establishing requirements in support of equipment environmental qualification - Performed thermal-hydraulic calculation to evaluate minimal cooling conditions of fuel bundles in a CANDU-6 refueling machine and determine feasibility of maintaining such conditions under large break LOCA conditions (2000).

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Seconded to Materiaux de Haute Technologie Noranda to characterize amorphous selenium layers in X-ray detectors by automating microscope image acquisition and analyzing crystallization fraction using mathematical morphology algorithms.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Nuclear Sciences And Engineering

Dissertation: Automated variance reduction methodology for 3-D Monte Carlo coupled electron-photon-positron using deterministic importance.

Master Of Science - Ms, Energy Engineering

Thesis: Parallel code for coupled neutronic/thermal-hydraulic steady-state simulation of CANDU reactors.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Undergrad project: Experimental determination of the electric field shape within a CZT detector using coincident Cs-137 gamma spectra.