Short Bio:
Hadyn Kistle graduated in December 2024 with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. Her advisor was Dr. Shaheen Dewji (currently at Georgia Institute of Technology). Kistle’s research was performed at and sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Advanced Nuclear Technology group, NEN-2, under the supervision of Jesson Hutchinson. The primary focus was to investigate the potential to expand and improve upon the capabilities of a fielded, portable neutron multiplicity counter. Her work included detector response characterization, neutron dosimetry evaluation, and neutron energy spectrum deconvolution through both simulations and empirical studies. Kistle also completed a graduate certificate in Nuclear Security through the Bush School of Government and Public Service.rnPrior to her doctoral studies, Kistle worked with several groups across four divisions at LANL. She started in the Chemistry Division with the Nuclear and Radiochemistry group as a participant in the 2016 Nuclear Forensics Undergraduate Scholarship Program, where she studied uranium compound morphology and presented findings at the National Technical Nuclear Forensics Center program review. She also worked with the Dynamic Experiments, Physics, and Nuclear Engineering and Nonproliferation Divisions. Her work supported research of high explosive material properties, detector development, and radiation detection simulation. Kistle earned a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering with a radiological concentration from the University of Tennessee in 2016 as a part of the Chancellor’s Honors and Engineering Honors programs. She had a double minor in Materials Science & Engineering and German Language.
NSSPI Publications:
- H. Kistle, "MC-15 Neutron Multiplicity Counter Characterization for Dosimetry and Spectroscopy Applications", Ph.D. Dissertation, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2024).
- H. Kistle, J. Hutchinson, S. Dewji, R. Weldon, and M. Nelson, "Evaluation of neutron dosimetry capabilities with the MC-15 portable multiplicity counter", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,\r\n1066 (2024).
- H. Kistle , J. Hutchinson, M. Nelson, and S.A. Dewji, "Simulated Energy Response in a Multiplicity Detector", Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 123 , 1 (2020).
- J. King, S. Chirayath, E. Aboud, V. Bautista, P. Behne, H. Boo, R. Brownfield, J. Chisholm, K. Cook, A. Edwin, H. Kistle, P. O’Neal, E. Ordonez, M. Ramirez, S. Ricketts, R. Suh, "Safety Evaluation of a Spent Fuel Dry-Storage Canister with Various Fill Materials", Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 120 (2019).