Jackson Keppen
Research And Development Engineer 2 at NuScale Power
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJackson Keppen is a research and development engineer with nine years of experience focused on nuclear engineering, currently pursuing a Master's at Oregon State University while working in NuScale Power’s Innovation department. He blends practical licensing and regulatory experience—creating gap analyses between U.S. and Canadian nuclear regulations and contributing to Design Certification documentation—with hands-on technical modeling using Monte Carlo N-Particle simulations. His undergraduate honors thesis developed an accurate LSDS model to inform procurement and shielding design, demonstrating strength in numerical methods and experimental design. At NuScale he has supported RAIs and safety analysis revisions, balancing meticulous documentation with applied R&D under NDA. Jackson’s background includes reactor kinetics analysis from an internship at Palo Verde, showing an ability to translate statistical methods into operational improvements. Colleagues describe him as a methodical problem-solver who bridges regulatory, computational, and experimental domains.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Henley High SchoolMaster's degree, Nuclear Engineering, Master's degree, Nuclear Engineering at Oregon State UniversityProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
keppenj/osu-transport
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
OSUScientificComputing464/project-two-keppenj
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 days
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