Steven Hayes
Director, Nuclear Fuels and Materials Division Direcorate Fellow, Nuclear Science and Technology
Research Areas: Advanced Materials; Applied materials science and engineering; Dynamic characterization and testing of nuclear materials; Materials Characterization; Materials Properties and Performance; Materials Science and Engineering; Mesoscale modeling and simulation; Microstructural modeling; Modeling and Simulation; Neutron/ion irradiation damage of nuclear materials; Nuclear Engineering; Nuclear fuel cycle; Nuclear Fuel Performance, Management and Disposition; Nuclear Fuel Separations; Nuclear Fuels; Radiation Tolerant Materials; Reduced Order Modeling; Thermophysical Properties of Nuclear Fuel Materials
Biography:
Dr. Steven L. Hayes is Director of the Nuclear Fuels and Materials Division and a Fellow of the Nuclear Science & Technology Directorate. A former National Technical Director of DOE's Advanced Fuels Campaign (AFC) and technical lead for the Fuels Product Line in the Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling & Simulation (NEAMS) program, he led DOE efforts in the development and qualification of enhanced accident tolerant fuels for the current fleet of commercial light water reactors, development of fuels for future advanced reactors, and development and validation of the MOOSE-based applications BISON and Marmot for mechanistic modeling of nuclear fuel performance.
Dr. Hayes began his career in Idaho in 1992 and has extensive experience in the development and testing of a wide variety of nuclear fuels, including design of irradiation experiments for EBR-II, Phénix, and the Advanced Test Reactor (AR); post-irradiation examinations; and fuel performance modeling and simulation. He earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University. He is the author or coauthor of many publications related to nuclear fuel performance and fuel modeling and has been awarded a U.S. patent for an innovative nuclear fuel design enabling the enhanced destruction of plutonium. Dr. Hayes is a long-time member of the American Nuclear Society.
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Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering - Texas A&M University
M.S., Nuclear Engineering - Texas A&M University
B.S., Nuclear Engineering - Texas A&M University
American Nuclear Society
"Fuel Element Design for the Enhanced Destruction of Plutonium in a Nuclear Reactor," U.S. Patent No. 5,887,044, March 23, 1999
INL Laboratory Director Award, Exceptional Engineering Achievement, 2015
Distinguished Former Student, Texas A&M University, Nuclear Engineering Department, 2021
