Nel Ciurdar (Electrical Engineering)
About DOE Fellow
Nel Ciurdar received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering at Florida International University in the Fall of 2013. Previously, he has worked as a mathematics learning assistant in the Mathematics Department at FIU. Nel’s professional interests include sensor communication, music equipment and audio amplifier designing, and eco-friendly engineering that prevents hazardous nuclear waste from contaminating the environment. Nel Ciurdar is now an electrical engineer at Burns & McDonnell.
DOE Related Products
Nel is currently working under Jose Varona in supporting the Savannah River National Laboratory and DOE Office of Environmental Management in the development of a test site for the evaluation and deployment of over 250 remote sensors to be used in the decommissioning of nuclear facilities at DOE sites. DOE has established a goal to reduce waste emissions at SRS and is concerned with identifying many of its reactor buildings for decommissioning. One part of the in-situ decommissioning process is to fill below grade areas with cement and, in order to aid these projects, a meso-scale concrete test bed was designed and is currently being tested at the Florida International University Applied Research Center (FIU-ARC). Nel is also working under Jose Varona in supporting Mississippi State Univesity (MSU) specifically, in the area of fiber optic sensors to measure parameters such as water movement, crack detention, moisture, and temperature. During the course of several months, Nel will be working at FIU-ARC to complete this research project and further realize the issues, concerns, and limitations of in-situ decommissioning projects and the various technologies and sensors that they incorporate.