steve livingstone

Senior Small Modular Reactor Specialist at Government of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Environment

After graduating from Brentwood in 1999, Steve attended Queen's University where he studied Engineering Physics. Steve continued his passion for sailing, competing against US varsity teams for the Queen's sailing team. In 2001 he joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserves part-time, studying engineering during the school year, and Navy training every summer.

After graduating from Queen's in 2003, Steve moved to the University of Saskatchewan to pursue a MSc working on the STOR-M Tokamak fusion device. Around this time, Steve qualified as a Maritime Surface Officer with the Navy, providing solid leadership and teamwork skills in a high pressure operational environment. With his MSc in hand he moved to Edmonton to live with his girlfriend (now wife) and worked full time in the Navy reserves. At this point a friend from Queen's reached out suggesting Steve should apply for a job at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd (AECL), who were looking for a junior scientist interested in a part-time PhD with the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC).

In September 2006, Steve started at AECL (now Canadian Nuclear Labs, CNL) as a Research Scientist in the Fuel Development Branch, and in 2007 began part-time PhD studies with RMC. Steve’s graduate work looked at studying defected fuel in CANDU reactors to help improve operations, and he graduated with his PhD in 2012 in Nuclear Engineering. At AECL Steve took on progressively more senior roles, starting with Section Head of the Fuel Assembly and Welding Lab where he published some work on laser welding and helped fabricate the new SLOWPOKE-2 nuclear reactor core which was installed in Kingston Jamaica in 2014. In 2016 Steve took on the role of Manager of the Applied Physics Branch, focusing on applied research in nuclear security, safeguards, and non-proliferation.

Recently, Steve returned to Saskatchewan taking on a new challenging role as Senior Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Specialist for the Government of Saskatchewan, supporting Saskatchewan's efforts exploring nuclear power for clean energy for the future.

Steve enjoys cycling (including several long touring adventures), tinkering with his 3D printer, and is working his way towards completing the gold level of the 180 km Canadian Ski Marathon.

Find Steve on Brentonian Connect.

Additional Links

Canadian Nuclear Society: https://www.cns-snc.ca/

Canadian Nuclear Labs: https://www.cnl.ca/en/home/default.aspx

My recent presentation on spent fuel management experiments in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpgjXg09V2I

Canadian Nuclear Safety Commision: https://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/