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Knowledge of scientific and engineering principles associated with the safe design and operations of terrestrial and non-terrestrial nuclear reactor systems and radioisotope decay power systems. Knowledge and practice of neutron fission and decay of nuclear material, radioactivity determination/calculation/shielding due to fission and decay of nuclear materials, thermodynamics, nuclear/quantum physics, materials science, operations and control principles of nuclear reactors, simulation of reactor operations, health-physics effects of reactor radioactivity on humans, and probabilistic risk assessment. Ability to develop design concepts for potential nuclear propulsion systems, evaluating proposed designs and doing tradeoffs to determine which concepts can be incorporated into future space missions.

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