About Us

The Trusted Experts in Nuclear Personnel Staffing

Novarei Solutions offers specialized staffing and consulting technical support for U.S. fuel cycle licensees, enrichment facilities, defense facilities, and large and small scale deactivation, decommissioning, and remediation projects. Novarei Solutions offers criticality safety, NDA detection, and radiation transport calculations in support of performing Nuclear Criticality Safety Evaluations (NCSE’s), NDA methods development, and radiological safety analyses (RSA’s) using our configuration controlled computing platforms.

THESE COMPUTING PLATFORMS

Have successfully installed and verified NCS computer programs SCALE 6.1 and MCNP5 per DOE configuration management standards and policies. Novarei Solutions has validated SCALE 6.1 and the ENDF/B-VII cross-section library for low enriched uranium (LEU) ²³⁵U critical experiments. NovaRei has validated MCNP5 and the ENDF/B-VII cross section library for low enriched uranium (LEU) ²³⁵U, intermediate enriched uranium (IEU), and high enriched uranium (HEU) critical experiments.

The Principals

Shane E. Parkey

President

Mr. Parkey has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Tennessee with over 20 years of experience in the areas of criticality safety, nuclear safety analysis, radiological engineering, engineering design, licensing, and risk assessment. He has worked at several U.S. commercial fuel cycle licensees, commercial energy, and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories and facilities.

Melissa Staniewicz Parkey

Vice President

Melissa Staniewicz Parkey is a doctoral candidate (ABD) in the College of Business, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in the area of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) Psychology. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in I-O Psychology with 15 years of experience in the field of I-O psychology as well as experience in multiple Silicon Valley start-ups. Mrs. Staniewicz Parkey has performed research on decision making, cognition-perception, individual differences, team communication, leadership, virtual teams, computer-human interactions, and training. She has worked on government and military grants, within assessment centers, and taught undergraduate classes in management and human resources at the University of Tennessee.