michael r smith

Michael B. R. Smith is a staff member in the Advanced Nuclear System Safety & Licensing Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His work is largely focused on analytical support of nuclear phenomena related to the national space program. Specifically, he provides analytical and modeling expertise in radioisotope power system (RPS) radiation characteristics and has supported multiple NASA, DOE, and industry projects studying the radiation implications of power system configurations, fuel amounts, lifetime projections, and so on. He also serves on multiple projects as a reactor shielding analyst for space-based and terrestrial fission reactors, along with estimating radiation effects from naturally occurring radiation sources in spaceflight operations from galactic cosmic rays, solar particle events, and trapped radiation belts around the Earth and Jupiter. He has earned BS and MS degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee.