Matthew Ryan Sternat

R&D S&E, Nuclear Engineering

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R&D S&E, Nuclear Engineering

mrstern@sandia.gov

(505) 844-6734

Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
 P.O. Box 5800
 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1146

Biography

Matthew has worked at Sandia since 2012. He is currently a Principal Member of the Technical Staff in the Radiation Modeling and Metrology department. Mathew co-leads efforts for the Neutron Gamma Energy Transport code (NuGET) and serves as program lead and PI for several other areas. He currently serves as the Neutron Environment Effects Lead for the Sandia Survivability Technical Expert Network. Matthew is actively involved with ASTM subcommittees E10.05 and E10.07.

Education

Matthew earned a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2007, including a minor in Mathematics. Advised by Jean Ragusa, he earned a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2009, with a thesis Application of a Constrained Optimization Technique to the Imaging of Heterogeneous Objects Using Diffusion Theory. Advised by Dr. Bill Charlton, he also earned a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2012, with dissertation Development of Technical Nuclear Forensics for Spent Research Reactor Fuel.

Publications

  • Bachman, W.B., Camp, N., Bolles, J., Sternat, M.R., & Sternat, M.R. (2019). Developing Interactive Means to Teach Nuclear 3S Topics [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1641032 Publication ID: 69546
  • Bachman, W.B., Sternat, M.R., & Sternat, M.R. (2017). Reactor Modeling for Proliferation Pathway Studies [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1462639 Publication ID: 57593
  • Smartt, H., Anderson, B., Clem, J., Graves, R.E., Haddal, R., Turner, P., Dawson, L.A., Deland, S.M., Sternat, M.R., & Sternat, M.R. (2016). Cybersecurity Assessment Methodology for International Safeguards. https://doi.org/10.2172/1761816 Publication ID: 101504
  • Sternat, M.R., Charlton, W.S., Nichols, T.F., & Nichols, T.F. (2016). Benchmarking burnup reconstruction methods for dynamically operated research reactors. Journal of Nuclear Materials Management. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1431259 Publication ID: 98228
  • Mohagheghi, A.H., Sternat, M.R., Nasser bin Nasser, A., & Nasser bin Nasser, A. (2015). International scientific collaboration: the Radiation Measurements Cross Calibration (RMCC) project. Proposed Journal Article, unpublished, 2015, pp. 1-4. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1427201 Publication ID: 97892
  • Williams, A.D., Solodov, A., Boyle, D., Mohagheghi, A.H., Beeley, P., Sternat, M.R., & Sternat, M.R. (2015). Expanding into Research Opportunities: Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII) in Year 5 [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1262929 Publication ID: 44333
  • Sternat, M.R. (2015). High Fidelity Forward Model Development for Nuclear Reactor Spent Fuel Technical Nuclear Forensics. https://doi.org/10.2172/1494622 Publication ID: 43629
  • Sternat, M.R. (2015). An improved methodology for numerical forensics analysis of spent reactor fuel. NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1427251 Publication ID: 43628
  • Williams, A.D., Solodov, A., Boyle, D.R., Mohagheghi, A.H., Beeley, P.A., Sternat, M.R., & Sternat, M.R. (2015). Expanding into Research Opportunities: Gulf Nuclear Energy Infrastructure Institute (GNEII) in Year 5 [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1255779 Publication ID: 43690
  • Sternat, M.R. (2015). International Nuclear Safeguards at Sandia. https://doi.org/10.2172/1170509 Publication ID: 41443
  • Sternat, M.R. (2015). Statistical Concepts in Nuclear Material Accounting [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1513931 Publication ID: 41301
  • Sternat, M.R. (2015). Nuclear Safeguards Policy Exercise [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1513934 Publication ID: 41354
  • Sternat, M.R. (2015). Nuclear Safeguards [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1513936 Publication ID: 41356
  • Sternat, M.R. (2014). Enabling Greater Reliability in Database Information Through Utilization of a Spent Fuel Inverse Analysis [Presentation]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1496947 Publication ID: 37500
  • Sternat, M.R. (2014). Enabling Greater Reliability in Database Information Through Utilization of a Spent Fuel Inverse Analysis [Conference Poster]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1315108 Publication ID: 37501
  • Baldwin, G.T., Sternat, M.R., & Sternat, M.R. (2013). International Nuclear Safeguards [Conference]. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1115260 Publication ID: 34886
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Software

NuGET

 http://nuget.cee-gitlab.lan/ (internal SNL and project members only)

SNL-NJOY-206

 https://github.com/sandialabs/NJOY2016