Brandon A Wilson

Bio

Dr. Brandon Wilson is a R&D Staff in the Nuclear & Extreme Environment Measurement Group in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  He received his B.S. (2013) in Engineering Physics, and his M.S. (2016) and Ph.D. (2017) in Nuclear Engineering from The Ohio State University.  His work at Ohio State included the study of radiation effects on optical materials, the design of reactor irradiation experiments and the creation of optical sensors for use in nuclear environments. At ORNL, Dr. Wilson has worked on pre- and post-detonation nuclear forensics, space-based nuclear detonation detection, radiation transport, nuclear thermal propulsion, fiber optic sensing, and in-pile experiment design.

Other Publications

Deduced Refractive Index Profile Changes of Type I and Type II Gratings When Subjected to Ionizing Radiation
IEEE Sensors Journal
2019-07-01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2904013

Modeling of the Creation of an Internal Cladding in Sapphire Optical Fiber Using the 6 Li(n,α)3H Reaction
Journal of Lightwave Technology
2018-12-01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2873071

Response of Distributed Fiber Optic Temperature Sensors to High-Temperature Step Transients
IEEE Sensors Journal
2018-11-01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2868429

Quasi-Distributed Temperature Sensing Using Type-II Fiber Bragg Gratings in Sapphire Optical Fiber to Temperatures up to 1300°C
IEEE Sensors Journal
2018-10-15 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2865910

Thermally Induced Bend Loss of Silica Optical Fiber
IEEE Sensors Journal
2018-08-01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2018.2846522

High‐temperature effects on the light transmission through sapphire optical fiber
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
2018-08 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1111/jace.15515

Creation of an Internal Cladding in Sapphire Optical Fiber Using the $^{6}$ Li(n, $\alpha)^{3}$ H Reaction
IEEE Sensors Journal
2017-11-15 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2017.2756448

Effect of Gamma-Ray and Neutron Heating as Interfering Input for the Measurement of Temperature Using Optical Fiber Sensor System
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
2017-11 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2017.2756564

In-situ Gamma Radiation-Induced Attenuation in Sapphire Optical Fibers Heated to 1000 °C
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
2014-11 | journal-article

Atmospheric Gamma Ray Transport from a Radioactive Cloud to a Low Earth Orbit Satellite using MCNP
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
November, 2019

Evaluation of Optical Fiber Bragg Gratings in a Nuclear Reactor
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
June, 2017

Optimization of Silica Optical Fiber for High Temperature, Radiation Environments
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
June, 2017

Distributed Temperature Measurements using Optical Fiber in the OSU Nuclear Reactor
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
November, 2015

Distributed Temperature Sensing using Type-II Fiber Bragg gratings in Sapphire Optical Fiber to Temperatures up to 1000°C
IEEE Nuclear and Space radiation effects Conference
June, 2018

The Creation of a High Temperature Irradiation Facility in the Ohio State Research Reactor
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
November, 2017

Thermally Induced Bend Loss of Silica Optical Fiber
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
November, 2017

A Lumped Parameter Model of Heat Flow Through a High Temperature Fission Chamber
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
November, 2017

Evaluation of Optical Fiber Sensors in High Temperature and Nuclear Reactor Environments
PhD Dissertation
January, 2017

Design and MCNP6 simulation of the OSU Cryogenic Irradiation Facility.
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society
June, 2015

Trademarks and Patents

Internal Cladding in Sapphire Optical Device and Method of making
US 15928411

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