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Cornelia Chilian
Ph.D.
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Researcher
Department of Engineering Physics
Phone: (514) 340-4780 Fax: (514) 340-3218 Room: B-258.11
Areas of expertise
Nuclear engineering Reactor design and operation Radioactive materials Nuclear physics Experimental methods and instrumentation

Research interests and affiliations

Research interests

Development of the Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) methodfor samples of a priori unknown composition by implementing simultaneous and iterative correction of gamma-attenuation and thermal and epithermal neutron self-shielding

  • NAA applied to exotic materials, catalysts, fuel cells and rare earth elements
  • Laboratory Information Management System for NAA
  • Radioactive tracers
  • Software for gamma ray spectrometry and k0 NAA method for stable flux reactors
Affiliation(s)
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
  • 2400 NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
  • 2401 Reactor design and operation
  • 2402 Radioactive materials
  • 3102 Nuclear physics
  • 3108 Experimental methods and instrumentation

Publications

Recent publications
Journal article
Chavez-Gomez, P., Pelzmann, T., Hall, D.R., Chilian, C., Laberge Lebel, L. & Robert, É. (2022). Carbon fiber damage evolution under flame attack and the role of impurities. Fire and Materials, 15 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.3091
Journal article
Mathew, F., Chilian, C., Montgomery, L. & Kildea, J. (2021). Development of a passive gold-foil Nested Neutron Spectrometer to validate the active current-mode He-3 measurements in a high neutron fluence rate radiotherapy environment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 985, 7 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164662
Journal article
Ngapo, T.M., Champagne, C., Chilian, C., Dugan, M.E.R., Gariepy, S., Vahmani, P. & Bilodeau, P. (2021). Pemmican, an endurance food: Past and present. Meat Science, 178, 11 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meatsci.2021.108526
Journal article
Koclas, C., Muftuoglu, A., Teyssedou, A. & Chilian, C. (2019). A commissioning rod assembly for the Jamaican SLOWPOKE-2 nuclear reactor. Review of Scientific Instruments, 90(6), 9 pages. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5088500
See all publications (23)

Teaching

ENE6110: Nuclear Engineering Laboratory

Supervision at Polytechnique

COMPLETED

  • Master's Thesis (2)

    • Abdollahi Neisiani, M. (2017). Quantifyng Rare Earth Element Content in High Concentrated Samples by ko-NAA (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/2736/
    • Raouafi, H. (2012). Étude numérique de l'autoprotection spatiale dans des échantillons fortement absorbants irradiés dans le réacteur SLOWPOKE (Master's Thesis, École Polytechnique de Montréal). Retrieved from https://publications.polymtl.ca/947