PNNL

Robert Montgomery is a senior nuclear engineer and technical team leader for the Nondestructive Evaluation team in the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Montgomery has been in the field since 1998, working on multi-physics modeling, analysis, and evaluation of nuclear fuel rod. Additionally, he has experience with assembly and structural material behavior under normal operations, transient conditions, and material in a defective state. His responsibilities have included leading efforts in material and constitutive model development for nuclear fuel materials; experimental design and analysis to investigate material behavior under a variety of irradiation conditions; modeling and analysis of nuclear fuel rod behavior; and interfacing with the following nuclear utilities: the Electric Power Research Institute, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, national laboratories, and international organizations. His work addresses performance, reliability, and safety issues related to light water reactor nuclear fuel behavior.

Montgomery is the regulatory and utility support task manager in the Tritium Technology program in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration. In this capacity, he is responsible for supporting the safety and licensing actions required to irradiate tritium producing burnable absorber rods in the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

• Nuclear engineering
• Nuclear fuel cycle
• Radiation effects on materials

• MS in nuclear engineering, Texas A&M University
• BS in nuclear engineering, Texas A&M University