Grant Spence

Short Bio:

Grant Spence is avisitingresearch fellow at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-proliferation in Vienna, Austria, and a postdoctoral research associate at NSSPI.He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. Grant’s Masters work involved creating the proof-of-concept for a directionally sensitive neutron detector using boron carbide. In his dissertation work he developed a Monte Carlo burnup code capable of systematic and stochastic uncertainty quantification. His researchinterestsincludenuclear non-proliferation, nuclear weapons disarmament verification technologies, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, Monte Carlo based reactor simulations, and uncertainty quantification and propagation

NSSPI Publications:

1. G. Spence, "PHOENIX: A Reactor Burnup Code with Uncertainty Quantification", Ph.D. Dissertation, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2014).


2. G.R. Spence, "NRX Reactor Spent Fuel Study", INMM 54th Annual Meeting, 14-18 July 2013, Palm Desert, California, USA.


3. G. Spence, "Directionally Sensitive Neutron Detector For Homeland Security Applications", M.S. Thesis, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2011).


4. G.R. Spence, "A Boron Loaded Approach to Directionally Sensitive Neutron Detectors", 52nd Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Palm Desert, CA, July 17-21, 2011.


5. G.R. Spence W.S. Charlton, "Directionally Sensitive Neutron Detectors for Portal Monitors", 2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Tucson, AZ, July 12-15, 2009.


6. G. Spence, D.G. Ford, W.S. Charlton, "Advanced Radiation Detection Sensor Development at TAMU", Poster presented at the Academic Research Initiative Grantees Conference, Washington, D.C., April 2008.