Chad has applied state-of-the-art Monte Carlo radiation transport and nuclear engineering tools to solve complex challenges for nearly a decade. His customers and colleagues have included teams at radioisotope manufacturing companies, state and federal regulators, national laboratories, and health physics consultancies across the country. He is approaching five years as an independent consultant.

B.S.E., Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences - University of Michigan, 2019 · GPA 3.9 · Glenn Knoll Scholarship recipient

Affiliations - American Nuclear Society · Health Physics Society

Papers:

• Wilkerson, B., Denbrock, C., Grimm, T., Nash, J., Navarro, J., & Wahlen, R. (2024). Radiation Dose Modeling for Niowave’s Accelerator Driven Uranium Target Assembly 3 (No. ORNL/TM--2024/3646). Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States).

• Conant, A., Nelson, N., Navarro, J., Grimm, T., Denbrock, C., & Wahlen, R. (2023). MCNP Neutronic Design Optimization of an Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Assembly for Mo-99 Production. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States).

• Nelson, N. B., Conant, A. J., Navarro, J., Wahlen, R. N., Denbrock, C. P., & Grimm, T. L. (2026). Multi-Objective Optimization of Uranium Target Assembly–3: A Comparison of Genetic and Traditional Methods. Nuclear Science and Engineering, 200(7), 1651-1672.

• Brown, M. Alex, et al. "Recovery of high specific activity molybdenum-99 from accelerator-induced fission on low-enriched uranium for technetium-99m generators." Scientific Reports 11.1 (2021): 13292.

• Nelson, N. B., Smith, M. B., Karriem, Z., Navarro, J., Denbrock, C. P., Wahlen, R. N., & Grimm, T. L. (2022). Radiation shielding analysis of Niowave’s uranium target assembly 2 (UTA-2) facility for molybdenum-99 production (No. ORNL/TM-2021/2269). Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States).

• Houts, Michael G., Claude R. Joyner, Timothy S. Kokan, Britton Reynolds, John Abrams, Michael Eades, Danielle Beale, Chad Denbrock, and Jacob Easley. "Design Options for a Versatile Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) Stage." In 2018 AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, p. 5347. 2018.