Current Positions

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences

Education

Ph.D., Carleton University
M.S., McGill University
B.S., McGill University

Research Interests

Prof. Simonetti's research expertise is in deciphering and identifying the chemical and isotopic signatures of natural or manufactured nuclear materials/ores at high spatial resolution for the purposes of forensic analysis and source attribution.  Nuclear forensic analysis is intimately connected to understanding the nuclear fuel cycle, as "fuel" for devices used in the manufacturing of nuclear weapons derives from the processing of urano- and thoro-genic materials.

Key Words

Analysis of Pre-and Post-Detonation Materials, Materials Characterization, Nuclear Forensics, Nuclear Safeguards, Source Attribution

Relevant Energy Publications

1. Lewis, Stefanie R., Antonio Simonetti, Loretta Corcoran, Stefanie S. Simonetti, Corinne Dorais, and Peter C. Burns. "The role of continental crust in the formation of uraninite-based ore deposits." Minerals 10, no. 2 (2020): 136.
2. Dorais, Corinne, Antonio Simonetti, Loretta Corcoran, Tyler L. Spano, and Peter C. Burns. "Happy Jack Uraninite: A New Reference Material for High Spatial Resolution Analysis of U‐Rich Matrices." Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 44, no. 1 (2020): 125-132.
3. Corcoran, Loretta, and Antonio Simonetti. "Geochronology of uraninite revisited." Minerals 10, no. 3 (2020): 205.
4. Spano, Tyler L., Antonio Simonetti, Loretta Corcoran, Philip A. Smith, Stefanie R. Lewis, and Peter C. Burns. "Comparative chemical and structural analyses of two uranium dioxide fuel pellets." Journal of Nuclear Materials 518 (2019): 149-161.
5. Corcoran, Loretta, Antonio Simonetti, Tyler L. Spano, Stefanie R. Lewis, Corinne Dorais, Stefanie Simonetti, and Peter C. Burns. "Multivariate analysis based on geochemical, isotopic, and mineralogical compositions of uranium-rich samples." Minerals 9, no. 9 (2019): 537.

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