91°µÍø’s Matthew Jessee (left) and Ellen Saylor have been elected to committee leadership positions within the American Nuclear Society.
The American Nuclear Society has elected Matthew Jessee and Ellen Saylor, both from the Department of Energy’s 91°µÍø, to divisional leadership roles within the organization.
Jessee will serve a two-year term as treasurer of the ANS Reactor Physics Division. The division’s objectives are to promote the advancement of knowledge and understanding of the fundamental physical phenomena characterizing nuclear reactors and other nuclear systems.
Jessee, a reactor physics nuclear engineer in ORNL’s Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division, is the lead code developer for the Polaris lattice physics code in the SCALE Code System and the reactor physics technical area lead for the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation program. He received his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from North Carolina State University.
Saylor was re-elected for a second one-year term as secretary of the ANS Nuclear Criticality Safety Division. The division’s objective is to further the exchange of technical information on nuclear criticality safety with the ultimate goal of promoting the safe handling of fissionable materials outside reactors.
Saylor, a nuclear criticality safety engineer in RNSD, provides nuclear criticality safety support and technical expertise to various DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission programs, including leading various training courses. She received her B.S. in nuclear engineering from Pennsylvania State University.
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