James B. Tompkins Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Rockville, Maryland, United States

Collaborated with national laboratories and led internal development of irradiation test and post-irradiation examination efforts for TRISO-X fuel pebbles for the Xe-100. Worked closely with licensing to align testing and analysis with accelerated fuel qualification licensing efforts (NUREG-2246), and contributed towards fuel design, analysis, and.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Responsible Engineer for TRISO fuel in Radiant's portable micro-HTGR design. Led fuel design, analysis, and procurement efforts. Performed thermomechanics multiphysics analyses on fuel and other reactor core components (e.g., metal hydride moderator, shielding materials, graphite blocks). Performed statistical (Serpent, OpenMC) and deterministic (Griffin).

Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

Developed advanced multiphysics models consisting of of implicitly coupled thermal, mechanical, and two-phase fluid flow simulations during transient conditions. Contributed to international code benchmarking efforts by simulating material failure conditions and comparing code results to experiments. Collaborated with INL researchers to expand moving.

College Station, Texas

Contributed to development of MOOSE multiphysics framework. Validated BISON nuclear fuel simulations using experiment data. Modeled irradiation locations with deterministic neutron transport code. Performed experiments to quantify neutron flux in reactor irradiation locations.

Idaho Falls, ID

Worked to implement combined model parameter and mesh perturbation capabilities in RAVEN uncertainty quantification framework. Set up validation cases in BISON nuclear fuel performance code.

College Station, Texas, United States

Responsible for safe and competent operation of TEES Nuclear Science Center's 1 MW TRIGA reactor. Coordinated, designed, and performed reactor experiments and training. Developed methods of knowledge retention by creating facility wiki.

College Station, Texas

Created course content including lectures and assignments as a member of a professionally and culturally diverse team of graduate students. Instructed more than 180 students in LabVIEW, MATLAB, and C++ each semester. Managed a team of undergraduate TA's. Facilitated exhibitions of robotics performance.

College Station, Texas

Responsible for safe and competent operation of the TEES Nuclear Science Center's 1 MW TRIGA reactor. Coordinated, designed, and performed reactor experiments to successfully gain high-impact insight critical to customers' research and business interests. Oversaw repackaging and shipping of radioactive material.

Master’S Degree, Nuclear Engineering

My Master's project involved characterizing low energy (thermal and epithermal) neutron flux in a unique irradiation position at the Texas.

Bachelor'S Degree, Nuclear Engineering