Steve Bowman

Research Interests

• applied R&D in nuclear reactor physics and performing analysis and methods development in areas such as reactor core physics, lattice physics, cross-section processing, nuclear fuel cycle assessments, radionuclide inventories, source terms, and decay heat
• analysis and validation of advanced LWR fuel designs, including activities in the DOE Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Hub (the Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors, CASL), advanced concepts such as high-temperature gas-cooled reactors and small modular reactors, and high performance research reactors such as ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor

Education

• M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1980
  Thesis: “The Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Depletion Perturbation Theory in a Light Water Reactor Nodal Code.”
• B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, Summa Cum Laude, 1979

Publications

2011

D. Lee, M. L. Williams, B. J. Ade, and S. M. Bowman, "Verification of New Doubly-Heterogeneous Self-shielding Method in SCALE," Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 105, 849-850 (2011).

S. M. Bowman, "SCALE 6: Comprehension Nuclear Safety Analysis Code System," Nucl. Technol. 174(2), 126-148 (May 2011).

M. D. DeHart and S. M. Bowman, "Reactor Physics Methods and Analysis Capabilities in SCALE," Nucl. Technol. 174(2), 196-213 (May 2011).