Halim Alsaed
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Halim Alsaed is a nuclear engineer with expertise in reactor physics, nuclear and criticality safety, probabilistic risk assessment, and nuclear waste management. Over the course of his 30-year career, he has supported the commercial nuclear power industry, the Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), gaining extensive experience with Nuclear Regulatory Commission and DOE regulations. Mr. Alsaed began his career in the commercial nuclear sector with Westinghouse, ABB-Combustion Engineering, and Areva, where he focused on reactor physics and criticality safety, designing reactor cores, developing advanced nuclear analysis computational methods, performing reactor startups, and optimizing nuclear fuel utilization and storage. At the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP), Mr. Alsaed managed the Risk and Criticality Department, overseeing preclosure safety and postclosure criticality. He developed and implemented unique risk-informed performance-based approaches to nuclear safety and disposal criticality in support of the YMP Repository License Application.
Following the suspension of the YMP, Mr. Alsaed founded EnviroNuclear, a nuclear analysis consulting firm, and provided nuclear and criticality safety, design, operations, and overight support across the DOE and NNSA enterprise, including at Los Alamos National Laboratory Plutonium Pit Production and Weapons Engineering Tritium Facilities; Savannah River Site Plutonium Processing and Tritium Production Facilities; the Y-12 National Security Complex Uranium Production Facility; the Nevada National Security Site Device Assembly Facility; the Hanford Site Waste Treatment Plant, Central Plateau Remediation, Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, Solid Waste Operations Complex, and Tank Farms; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and the Pantex Plant. Mr. Alsaed also supported the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy, Sandia National Laboratories, and Idaho National Laboratory in research and development related to advanced reactors design and demonstration, extended spent fuel storage and transportation, and nuclear waste packaging and disposal.
Mr. Alsaed earned his B.S. and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University, specializing in computational neutron transport and reactor physics, and has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports.
Areas of Expertise
- Advanced reactor waste management
- Compatibility and mixed core evaluations
- Core design
- Criticality analyses
- Cycle economics and fuel costs
- Deep Isolation
- Fuel cycle design
- Fuel Design & Manufacture
- Fuel design change reviews
- Fuel Management
- Fuel materials and irradiation effects
- Fuel rod analyses
- Interim storage options analysis
- Licensing
- Licensing Analysis
- New fuel design reviews / LTA's / Accident Tolerant Fuel
- Nuclear facility site feasibility studies
- Regulatory assistance and support
- Regulatory framework development
- Repository and recycling
- Repository and recycling economics
- Safety analyses
- Security of supply studies
- SFP criticality analysis
- Site selection evaluation for interim storage, DGR, other disposal
- Spent fuel storage options and economics
- Waste acceptance criteria development
