NSSPI Graduate
Nuclear Engineering
Ph.D., 2012
Research Group: Nuclear Forensics
NSSPI Publications:
- Alexer Solodov, Matthew Sternat, Adam Williams, David Boyle, Amir Mohagheghi, Philip Beeley, Robert Finch, "Expanding into Research Opportunities: Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII) in Year 4", INMM 56th Annual Meeting, Indian Wells, California, 12-16 July 2015.
- M. Sternat, "Development of Technical Nuclear Forensics for Spent Research Reactor Fuel", Ph.D. Dissertation, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2012).
- M.R. Sternat, W.S. Charlton, T.F. Nichols, D.M. Beals, and R.L. Webb., "Nuclear Forensics Technique Development for Samples of Spent Research Reactor Fuel", 53rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Orlando, Florida, 15-19 July 2012.
- M.R. Sternat, W.S. Charlton, T.F. Nichols , "Monte-Carlo Burnup Calculation Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation Determination", 52nd Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Palm Desert, CA, July 17-21, 2011.
- T.F. Nichols, D.M. Beals, M.R. Sternat, R.L. Webb, "Reactor Physics Modeling of Spent Research Reactor Fuel for Technical Nuclear Forensics", 52nd Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Palm Desert, CA, July 17-21, 2011.
- M.R. Sternat, W.S. Charlton, T.S. Nichols, R. Webb, D.M. Beals, "Reactor Physics Modeling of Spent Nuclear Research Reactor Fuel for SNM Attribution and Nuclear Forensics", 51st Annual Meeting for the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, Baltimore, Maryland, July 11-15, 2010.
- S. Chirayath, W. Charlton, A. Stafford, C. Myers, B. Goddard, J. Alfred, M. Carroll, M. Sternat, and E. Rauch, "Risk Informed Safeguards Integration Studies for a Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle", 51st Annual Meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials and Management, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 11-15, 2010.
- S. Chirayath, W. Charlton, A. Stafford, C. Myers, B. Goddard, J. Alfred, M. Carroll, M. Sternat, E. Rauch, "Risk Informed Safeguards Approaches for Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle Utilizing MAUA based Proliferation Resistance Assessment", NSSPI-10-002, January 15, 2010.
- M.R. Sternat, "Application of a Constrained Optimization Technique to the Imaging of Heterogeneous Objects Using Diffusion Theory", M.S. Thesis, Nuclear Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (2009).
- M. Sternat, J.C. Ragusa, "Cross Section Inference Based on PDE-Constrained Optimization", International Conference on Advances in Mathematics, Computational Methods, and Reactor Physics, an international conference sponsored by the ANS, Saratoga, NY, in May 3-7, 2009.
- M.R. Sternat, J.C. Ragusa, W. Bangerth, "Optically Thick Heterogeneous Object Imaging Using Constrained Optimization and Diffusion Theory", Poster presented at the Academic Research Initiative Grantees Conference, Washington, D.C., April 6-9, 2009.