Jeffrey King - Assistant Professor - Nuclear Science and Engineering Program, Colorado School of Mines

After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1994, Jeff King joined the Department of Energy at the Savannah River Operations Office as a Mixed Waste Engineer. In that position, he worked on public participation and compliance efforts related to the Savannah River Site’s RCRA Mixed Waste Installation Work Plan.  A year later he transferred offices to become a Facility Representative at the Savannah River Site’s High-Level Waste Tank Farm.  DOE Facility Representatives are somewhat similar to NRC on-site inspectors and are responsible for monitoring the day-to-day activities at their assigned facility.  This involves a mixture of technical and regulatory oversight, as the Facility Representative must be familiar with the governing DOE regulations and how they are applied at the operating and reporting level.  After three years as a Facility Representative, Jeff decided to return to school and pursue a Master’s and PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, starting in 1998.

Jeff finished his Ph.D. with distinction in 2006 and decided to remain in academia as an Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri – Rolla).  His primary teaching interest is reactor physics and design, along with the social, economic, and political aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle.  In 2009, Dr. King left Missouri S&T to become the first tenure track faculty hire in the newly created Nuclear Science and Engineering Program at the Colorado School of Mines.  The CSM Nuclear Science and Engineering program is in its third year and is focused on studying all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mining and processing, to reactor design and operations, and finally to waste management and disposal.

Dr. King has published several papers related to the design and safety of innovative nuclear reactors and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the American Nuclear Society, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  Dr. King's research interests include reactor modeling and control, nuclear system simulation, nuclear materials, and the computational modeling of radiation damage and material aging effects.

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