Cecil V. Parks, Ph.D.

Director
Reactor and Nuclear Systems Division
Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2008, Bldg. 5700
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6003
Phone: 865.574.5280
parkscv@ornl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• criticality safety technology - development and validation of computational methods and data, requirements and criteria for storage and transport of fissile material, and the technical basis and approach for crediting the burnup of commercial nuclear fuel
• radiation transport and shielding
• reactor physics
• spent fuel source term characterization

Education

• Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1985
  Dissertation: Adjoint-Based Sensitivity Analysis for Reactor Safety Applications.
• M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1978
  Thesis: Computer Experiments on Radiation Damage in Niobium, ERDA Fellow.
• B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1976
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1976

Publications

2011

C. V. Parks, J. C. Wagner, D. Mueller, and I. C. Gauld, "Development of Technical Basis for a Burnup Credit Regulatory Guidance in the United States," Proc. PATRAM 2010, London, U.K., October 3-8, 2010 (April 2011).

2010

C. V. Parks, G. F. Flanagan, and G. E. Kulynych, "American Journal of Physics Resource Letters – The Future of Nuclear Power," American Journal of Physics 78(10), 981-989, October 2010.

J. C. Wagner, C. V. Parks, D. E. Mueller, and I. Gauld, "Review of Technical Studies in the United States in Support of Burnup Credit Regulatory Guidance," Proc. IAEA/CSN International Workshop on Advances in Applications of Burnup Credit for Spent Fuel Storage, Transport, Reprocessing, and Disposition, Cordoba, Spain, October 27-30, 2009 (publication date: June 2010).

2009

B. B. Bevard, J. C. Wagner, C. V. Parks, and M. Aissa, Review of Information for Spent Nuclear Fuel Burnup Confirmation, NUREG/CR-6998, prepared for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn., December 2009.