Education:
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Engineering, 1992
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Engineering, 1992

Experience:
Ms. Larson has over twelve years of criticality safety analysis experience and is a Criticality Safety Specialist. She has performed analyses for solution processing facilities, shipping casks, storage facilities, Hanford tank waste, chemical and vitrification processes, and experimental laboratory facilities. She has been a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Nuclear Criticality Safety Inspection Team at the Gaseous Diffusion Plants and a criticality safety reviewer of fuel storage casks for the NRC Spent Fuel Project Office. She has also participated in reviews of DOE facilities, such as the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant, the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility and operations performed by Flour Daniel and Bechtel Hanford, Inc. In addition, Ms. Larson has experience in performing shielding assessments and applying ALARA principles to the design of a nuclear facility as a member of the River Protection Project – Waste Treatment Plant design team. She was also the lead Criticality Safety Specialist on the project responsible for maintenance of the Criticality Safety Program and procedures, computer code validation and all criticality safety evaluations.

Ms. Larson also has significant experience in the area of Readiness Assessment. She has been a team member on many Implementation Validation Reviews (IVRs) of 10CFR830 compliant Documented Safety Analyses, including Technical Safety Requirements and Safety Analysis Reports. She has also served on multiple Readiness Assessments as the subject matter expert in the areas of Criticality Safety or Safety Basis.

Ms. Larson is knowledgeable of the DOE and NRC criticality safety requirements. She is an expert with the NITAWL, XSDRN, and KENO-Va codes in the SCALE package and is a proficient user of the MCNP and MicroShield codes.

Computer Proficiency:
Ms. Larson is proficient in the use of the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) code and the KENO-Va, NITAWL, and XSDRN codes in the SCALE package for criticality analysis. For shielding calculations, she has used both MCNP and MicroShield. In addition, Ms. Larson is a competent user of Microsoft Office and other personal computer software.