Nuclear and Radiological Engineering

Capabilities

Trinity can provide a wide variety of services in the fields of nuclear and radiological engineering and health physics, including:

Environmental Transport and Risk Assessment Modeling
Criticality Analysis
Detector Modeling
Instrumentation
Contamination Consultation

For additional information about Trinity’s capabilities and services in the field of nuclear engineering and health physics, contact Kim Wood at (513) 521-3515 or krwtrinityea.com.

Qualifications and Past Experience

Trinity’s staff includes professional engineers and certified health physicists. Several of the staff members have advanced degrees in nuclear engineering, including two members with Ph.D.’s and another with a M.S. Trinity staff members are familiar with a number of computer codes used for modeling and risk assessment, including CAP88-PC, HotSpot, MicroShield, MCNP, RADTRAN, RASCAL, and RESRAD.

Trinity has provided extensive support to U.S. EPA’s Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA) in the area of radiological engineering. For example, Trinity has

Updated CAP-88, a personal computer software system used for calculating dose and risk from annual average releases of radionuclides to the air,
Modeled exposure to workers in waste treatment, storage, and disposal (TSD) facilities in support of EPA’s Low Activity Rule,
Assessed the adequacy of nondestructive assay (NDA) systems used at to characterize transuranic waste at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sites prior to its disposal in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP),
Provided on-site support of a joint pilot program between EPA and U.S. Customs to monitor shipments into the Port of New Orleans in 2002, and
Assisted the Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation Standards (ISCORS) group in developing risk-based guidelines for radioactive materials in sewage sludge.
Provided radiological and environmental health physics support to the US Nuclear Regulatory Comission in their preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement for the American Centrifuge Plant

Trinity's past experience in nuclear engineering also includes nuclear plant operations and maintenance, reactor physics, nuclear instrumentation design, and criticality analysis. Past radiological engineering experience includes risk assessments at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the Fernald site, and the RMI site; worker exposure assessments at Fernald; and health physics assessments and training.