Dr. Dunn holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Dunn has more than 20 years of nuclear engineering experience in the areas of nuclear criticality safety (NCS), radiation transport and cross-section processing methods development. Dr. Dunn worked at ORNL for 19 years, where he served as Group Leader for the Nuclear Data and Criticality Safety Group and the Nuclear Data Group. He was also the Acting Group Leader for the Reactor Analysis Group. Dr. Dunn additionally served as the Program Execution Manager and ORNL Task Manager for the U.S. Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP). Dr. Dunn is the primary author or co-author on more than 90 publications. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), and he is a past board member of the ANS Oak Ridge/Knoxville Section.
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