Dan Evens Senior Analyst B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.

Dan Evens is a Senior Analyst with Candesco. His areas of expertise include CANDU safety analysis, software design, development, verification, validation and documentation. He has knowledge on a variety of safety analysis codes and methodologies (fuel behaviour codes, physics codes, fission product release and transport codes). He has extensive experience in the area of uncertainty analysis methodologies (CSAU method, the adjoint method, Monte Carlo methods, bootstrap method).

Currently, Dan is providing leadership as a consultant to the MMIR project for AECL. He is preparing physics input to the thermal-hydraulic code CATHENA and he is running MCNP to analyze various states of the MAPLE reactor. He is also providing support in the verification of models and calculations of other MAPLE team members. In addition to his current work for the MMIR project, Dan supported the analysis of the positive power coefficient issue for the MAPLE reactor and performed thermal hydraulics and physics analysis (including CATHENA simulations) for high and low power operation, under both natural and forced circulation.

At Candesco, Dan has contributed to a number of projects. For the NRU licensability project he developed an information database, which presented codes and standards to users allowing the management, searchability and preservation of legacy information applicable to NRU. At Ontario Power Generation, Dan participated in the discovery process and specification creation for a collateral management system. He provided the design, development, deployment and training of this system. Additional work for Ontario Power Generation included developing ASP webpages to interface with an Oracle databases and modification to existing databases. Dan developed and installed an MS Excel application for obtaining and analyzing data from files and Oracle databases, developed PLSQL code for data manipulation within an Oracle database and developed an MS Access database and VBA code for analysis of data obtained from files and Oracle databases.

Prior to Candeso, Dan worked as a nuclear design engineer for Ontario Power Generation and a safety analysis consultant at IDEA Research and a software developer for the physics department at the University of Winnepeg. He was also a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.

Dan graduated in 1982 with a BSc in Physics from the University of Waterloo. He also holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D in Physics, both from the University of Toronto.