Dylan Pierce Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Ottawa, Canada Area

Specialist with the Physics and Fuel Division (PFD) at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). Ottawa, Ontario. Tasks include:- Perform technical assessments to ensure safe operation for existing and novel nuclear technologies including reactors and their subsystems.- Assessing the validity of industry assumptions as they pertain for ensuring safe operation of the CANDU reactors, including aging of components, and the ability of simulation tools to accurately model all relevant physical phenomena. - Perform source term and fission product inventory determination for use in severe accident analysis, including participation in yearly nuclear emergency exercises at the CNSC.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Graduate Co-op at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). Work terms with the Physics and Fuel Division (PFD) and the Laboratory Services Division (LSD). Ottawa, Ontario. Tasks included during LSD work term:- Assist with characterization and calibration of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer (LA-ICMS).- Prepare samples and perform analysis using LA-ICMS as well as for a collaborative project with Environment Canada. - Develop statistical tool for determination of outliers in data collected using LA-ICMS using Excel VBA coding.- Develop procedures and manuals for using HI-Q TFIA Air Samplers, EPX-1 and EPX-2 Electrodeposition Apparatus, Thermo SpeedVac Concentrator.Tasks included during PFD work term:- Investigating the input assumptions used by industry in their Industry Standard Toolset (IST) reactor physics codes, including WIMS, RFSP and DRAGON.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Internship at the Radiation Protection Bureau (RPB) of Health Canada. Ottawa, Ontario. Tasks Included:- Modelling and designing a new general purpose coincidence/anti-coincidence detection system using Geometry And Tracking (Geant)4. - Modelling existing broad energy germanium (BEGe) detectors used in-house for gamma detection and sample determination.- Collecting data using existing BEGe detectors to be used for validation of the corresponding detector models in Geant4.

Kingston Ontario

Mark assignments and test for a Thermodynamics (PHYS 372) course given at Queen's University.

Kingston Ontario

Develop a three-dimensional model in Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) Transport Code which accurately predicts several CANDU bundle level phenomena.

Kingston Ontario

Develop a dynamic loading apparatus for investigating mitigation techniques of Iodine-Induced Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) in CANDU fuel bundles.

Master Of Science - Ms, Nuclear Physics

My M.S. is in Nuclear Engineering with focus on reactor physics, reactor fuel mechanics, computational methods in reactor physics. My.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics

Completed a four year Bachelor of Science (B.S) in Physics. As part of my time at Queen's I successfully completed courses ranging.